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- Subject: Re: Network Trouble
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- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 04:04:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Re: Network Trouble
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, David Wolfrom wrote:
> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 03:59:15 -0700
> From: David Wolfrom <growler@eskimo.com>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>
> Subject: Re: Network Trouble
>
> I'm not sure if you heard, probably did, but a few days ago internic screwed
> up majorly with aol.com. They incorrectly listed the name servers for AOLto
> Autonet.net so that nobody could access aol. Their problem might be related
> to that, although it was fixed quickly I think it backed up a lot and they
> were out of service for a day.
>
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27653,00.html
>
> David Wolfrom
> growler@eskimo.com
This was a physical link problem; Sprint saw the link to AOL bouncing up
and down, that is the link that gets to their name servers for this portion of
the net.