Re: wcom

[<sgorman1 () gmu edu>]

The details can be found here:

http://www.matrixnetsystems.com/ea/advisories/20021003_instant_alert.jsp

----- Original Message -----
From: Ian A Finlay <iaf () andrew cmu edu>
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2002 3:31 pm
Subject: wcom

> I know, I know, don't believe everything you read... ;-)
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/816663.asp?0dm=C15MT
>
> "Struggling WorldCom Inc., one of the major backbone providers of 
> networksthat route traffic over the Internet, suffered a major 
> commercial Internet
> outage beginning at 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday, according to a company 
> thatmonitors Internet performance."
>
> Article goes on to state the reason was a "software glitch".
>
> FWIW,
> Ian