Any ideas what is happening to Alternet's backbone?

Mon Jun 16 21:53:14 UTC 1997

We just got word from them, major hardware problems on the East coast, not
expected to be fixed until later tonight.

Robert Laughlin

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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Curtis Generous wrote:

> Anyone have any info on Alternet's outage?  We have had to shutdown several
> interfaces to Alternet routers in the Washington DC area as they appear to have been
> blackholing our packets.  Calls to their NOC have not been able to gather
> any further information.
> 
> --curtis
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> Curtis Generous                generous at uucom.com          Phone: (703) 461-1350
> 