MCI outage continues; no timetable for fix. Maria? Hoff?

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As customers report major Internet service disruption, no word on timetable for final fix.

A MCI WorldCom frame relay outage that started last Thursday is still causing major network problems throughout the Internet.

Many MCI WorldCom customers across the country said they still do not have steady frame service a full 100 hours after the outage began.

"It's unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it," said Robert Loughlin, chief technical officer for RMI.Net. "It's affecting our entire network."

Sean Donelan, network architect for Data Research Associates, said about half of his network's frame connections are out.

A message on UUnet's network status page said only: "MCI WorldCom is experiencing Frame-Relay outages across the United States. These outages are affecting our dedicated customer connections. Senior network engineers are currently working to resolve the problem."

No estimated time of repair has been indicated, and MCI WorldCom officials could not be reached for comment.

http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=/news/19990818/2311107.inp

"Teleco's are done." - Maria

"The telecommunications industry is ready." - Hoff

-- a (a@a.a), August 18, 1999

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Got string? Got cans?

-- enough is (enough@enough.com), August 18, 1999.

Hear no polly.

See no polly.

Speak no polly.

LOL

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), August 18, 1999.


But MCI Worldcom issued a statement this week that Y2K will not affect the Internet! They seem so confident!!

-- Roland (notelling@nowhere.com), August 18, 1999.

That article is DATED AUGUST 9TH

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), August 18, 1999.

LINK

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), August 18, 1999.


Good catch, Mike.

a - got a more current article?

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), August 18, 1999.


Actually, there are more current articles in some threads below. What it comes down to is that MCI didn't fix it, couldn't fix it, and just pulled the new stuff back out and reinstalled the old stuff. They have no time frame estimates for if-and-when they "might" try again. This is the sort of large scale complex system problem that will rear it's ugly head more and more as new systems are attempted to be run. Also, note that the reports from MCI say that the problems didn't happen immediately upon installation, but took some weeks to surface. Then once they surfaced and got scrambled, there was no fix available. I have been trying to get Maria, who currently works for MCI, to tell us what went down, in detail, but she pleads ignorance. It could be that this data is "classified", I don't know.

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), August 18, 1999.

A link to the article appears on Excite's home page dated 9/18/99...sounds like its current to me...

http://www.excite.com/

-- a (a@a.a), August 18, 1999.


Don't you know that everything that fails is attributable to Y2K? But how to explain everything that works? Oh, I know, the heroic intervention of Gary North, etc.

-- cd (artful@dodger.com), August 18, 1999.

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