RE: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight

["Daniel Golding" <dgolding () sockeye com>]

Folks should also keep in mind that legacy MediaOne customers do not appear
to be affected, as they are on a seperate network.

- Daniel Golding

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Matthew S. Hallacy
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:36 PM
> To: Erick B.; nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
>
>
>
> I've had no problems, apparently some people are on AT&T @Home, while
> others are on AT&T Broadband, I am an AT&T Broadband customer, some of
> my friends (Atlanta, Seattle) are AT&T @Home customers who no longer
> have access, AT&T claims that everyone who lost access lastnight will
> be online with AT&T Broadband within ~10 days.
>
>
>                               Matthew S. Hallacy
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:36:31PM -0800, Erick B. wrote:
> > Matthew,
> >
> > Hmm. Is your AT&T@Home connection up? I had the same
> > understanding as you did. I thought we would not lose
> > our connection and just access to the home page, etc
> > which I don't use. Anyway, I'm in chicagoland area and
> > my cable modem isn't sync'd up anymore as of midnight
> > PST on 12-1. AT&T Support saids service should be
> > restored within 7 days but may take longer. They are
> > giving 2 days credit for each day down.
> >
> > Erick
> >
> > --- "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix () techmonkeys org>
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:59:25PM -0500, Sean
> > > Donelan wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > The judge said the company and bondholders could
> > > negotiate new
> > > > deals with the cable companies.  Cox, AT&T, etc
> > > could come to a
> > > > new arrangement to continue service before
> > > Midnight (PST as someone
> > > > pointed out @Home is a California based company).
> > > If they don't
> > > > come to a new arrangement, the company and
> > > creditors can cease
> > > > service at Midnight.
> > >
> > > For what it's worse, AT&T has gone through a lot of
> > > trouble
> > > to assure it's customers (including me) that our
> > > service
> > > will only be interrupted to the extent that
> > > home.excite.com
> > > may be unreachable for a short time, no other
> > > aspects of
> > > the service should be affected (this is pointed out
> > > clearly
> > > on their tech support line, as well as in a letter
> > > seperate
> > > from my bill this month)
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Now, if only I could find someone at AT&T that knows
> > > how
> > > to fix the reverse DNS for the netblocks in
> > > Minneapolis...
> > >
> > >
> > >                           Matthew S. Hallacy
> >
> >
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