On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Charles R. Hoynowski wrote:

I started seeing mail failures to Stanford (a big BBN site) at 9:33am PDT

I believe that Infoworld magazine's site is also on BBN. This is the magazine that Bob Metcalfe writes for. I haven't been able to get to www.infoworld.com all day. A traceroute to www.infoworld.com (192.216.48.63) ends at barrnet.SanFrancisco.mci.net (166.48.19.250) and whois whois 192.216.48 shows up with this BBN BARRNET, Inc. (NETBLK-BARRNET) NETBLK-BARRNET192.216.0.0 - 192.216.255.255 The various failures that are happening this year are sure getting a *LOT* more visibility and press coverage than failures in previous years. It seems to me that in a way, Metcalfe's Internet collapse of 1996 really has arrived. However I would say that it is a measure of the net's pervasiveness and importance rather than a measure of the net's stability. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com