> On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, D.L. Richardson wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyone out there, or did everyone go no mail all at
> > once?
>
> FC's been weird on my end for awhile: lots of responses in threads
> arriving hours or entire days before the posts that they're responding to.
>
> Then, on Wednesday, the Internet broke ("routes around damage", my ass! ;)
> I couldn't telnet to my email at the U of Michigan, and I couldn't telnet
> anyplace else either, so I called comp. services here in Winnipeg to ask
> if the nameserver was down. They laughed and said, "no, something is
> broken in Toronto and the Internet isn't working; the phone is ringing
> here every 10 seconds or so, but Toronto can't even give us an estimate
> on how long it will take to fix the problem."
>
> So I started poking at random web links from the U of Manitoba home
> page. I couldn't get to most random American things, except GNN for some
> reason. I could get to the CBC (Ottawa?), but not the BBC. I don't
> think Western Canada was working either, although what that would have to
> do with downed links in Toronto is beyond me.
>
> I got Michigan back an hour later, and stopped worrying. But it looks like
> things might still be messed up someplace, if FC posts are being stalled
> again.
>
> --
Yup looks like a good week to take off from work ! Logged in for the
first time in a couple of days , after being in the sun. Laying back
copping some rays and photoing the occasional cloud to turn into bumpmaps
once scanned in !
I can well belive that a switch could take out an entire network!
Often happens that the Washington Router goes down on our link from the
UK and the traffic makes the links ground to a halt while the backup
routers go slow! As I would have been on the 20:00 to 08:00 shift this
last week (GMT) looks like I would have copped for our US users losing
tcp/ip with the UK machines . Ahh well , saturday evening , and still off
till tuesday , donning the new chinos and bopping off to a good friends
wedding reception in a half hour or so , then wombling back to try and
catch Hawkwind doing the Cu-See - Me routine from the Earth Daze
festival(I think) , same as they did with Womad last weekend ! Oh and for
those of a vouyeristic "bent" , apparently the Sex and Sleaze play
Voyeurz! currently on in Londons West end has a cam in the dressing room
! starts at about 20:00 GMT . What with Portillo's(Gov. Minister) front
door going up on the Web and Man uniteds plan to show live home games ,
the bandwith in the UK is rapidly being eaten up by Video - no wonder
some evenings its down to less than 1k bps on netscrape.
Graz sunburntandhappyafteraweekawayfromthephones
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