Re: [TCLUG:13189] US West at it's US Worst...

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

We had an outage for 1 hour this morning on internal phones.  (NTS) Seems
like the phone diety is being really annoyed with something latey.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> Life really is bitter here.  The hopkins CO barfed and both of our PRI's
> were having random DS0's winked (lots of pretty amber blinkies on the
> TCU), and lots of CRC's and carrier transitions on the ptp and frames. 
> Things are back up now, but the internet was REALLY slow for the last
> few hours.
> 
> Bob Tanner wrote:
> > 
> > Quoting Ben Beuchler (insyte@emt-p.org):
> > > Heh heh...
> > >
> > > We lost all of our DSL customers for a while (about an hour) yesterday.
> > > The router was alarming, saying that the ATM link to US West was down.  We
> > > tried to call them and (this is when we first realized that it was
> > > something BIG) and got a fast busy signal!  Normally, as you know, those
> > > only show up during tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, and Mother's Day.
> > >
> > > When we (I) finally managed to talk to a tech there (after our link came
> > > back up, of course) we learned that they had lost, not just our link, but
> > > 96 (that's ninety-six!!) T3 lines!
> > 
> > Yeah, we lost our DSL link today for a couple of minutes as well.
> > --
> > Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>       | Phone : (612)943-8700
> > http://www.real-time.com                | Fax   : (612)943-8500
> > Key fingerprint =  6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9
> > 
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