Washington DC outage (fwd)

[Eric Wieling <eric () cronus ccti net>]

Just got this from Sprint.  

> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:56:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Outage Poster <postout () sprint net>
> Subject: Washington DC outage
>
> 7/17/97  09:10 EDT
>
> We currently have 280 DS-3's down in our Washington DC relay site due to
> a fiber cut.  Customers connect to our DC routers will experience routing
> instabilities and delays.  We are working to resolve this problem...no ETR
> is available at this time.  We will send a follow-up message to update
> this problem. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have
> caused.  Thank you for your patience.