technical problems

[Doug Henwood]

Panix has been experiencing problems all afternoon, and mail is bouncing
back to me saying that perfectly good addresses can't be found. Of course
those affected may not get this, but I'll give it the old college try
anyway. For the technically minded, I've appended Panix' explanation of the
problem.

Doug

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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:25:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: alexis at panix.com (MOTD [Panix])
Subject: Service problems resolved
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(Posted by Alexis Rosen)                       Thu, Sep 24 1998 --  1:58 PM
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We've finally resolved most of the problems we've been having since shortly
before noon. In fact there was no router hardware failure. We were being
attacked by an unknown party. The flood of packets was so large that it
overloaded the CPUs on several of our routers, causing symptoms that
resembled hardware failures.

While our internal network is now fully functional again, and our links to
the outside world are up, connectivity to the outside is still flaky.
This is because the various nets we connect to are all having problems
of their own, some caused by the same attack. For example, MCI tried to
block the attack on one of their border routers but the router crashed...

I expect that things will return to normal gradually over the course of
the afternoon. If there are any major developments, I'll post here again.

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