Seattle/Everett/Tacoma 56k intermittent routing problems

[Eskimo North Support <support@eskimo.com>]

We've had many people calling in the past couple days dialing into the
Seattle/Everett/Tacoma 56k lines where they're logging in just fine, but
everything times out or results in "host not found" errors.  This is not a
DNS problem, as people have been just as unable to reach host IP addresses
as well as the qualified names (204.122.16.5 and www.eskimo.com, for
example).  Problem is, a few mintues later in a different connection to
the same line and username, everything is fine.  Here's an update from
MegaPop Support regarding this issue.  Unfortunately, there's no ETA yet.

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, MegaPOP Support wrote:
> The Seattle dial up equipment is causing the problems that your users 
> are seeing when dialing in. We have a ticket open with the maker of 
> the equipment there, and engineers are working with them to resolve 
> the problem. It is very intermittent, and harder to troubleshoot than 
> if it were a 'global down' sort of problem. [...]


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