Powerful Attack Cripples Net's Core

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Thu Oct 24 09:27:11 PDT 2002


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 at 10:45am Matt wrote:


> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:51:40PM -0500, budge wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > i don't think anybody failed to resolv a domain during the
> > attack, but when att melted their core from CHI east a few
> > weeks back, my east coast office was hosed for most of the
> > day. and nothing *i* could do about it.
>
> Wasn't this UUNet/Worldcom/MCI? They had a problem and
> it did cause some havoc here.

no, i don't use uu, but i do buy t1's from att at several locations. (but uu had a very similar problem in the same timeframe. one difference is att sort of owned up to it and sort of explained it.)

-- no Onan



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