UUNET instability?

Thu Apr 25 19:32:23 UTC 2002

At 03:14 PM 4/25/2002 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:03:52 PDT, Gregory Hicks <ghicks at cadence.com>  said:
>
> > > >On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Daniel Kelley wrote:
> > > > > UUNET support says that the outage relates to a train derailment 
> in the
> > > > > northeast that occured this morning.  master ticket no. 562655.
> >
> > Thought this happened YESTERDAY - 4/24 ...  Another one?
>
>No, the train derailment was yesterday.  It's just they've got the route
>flap damping constant set in units of days, so it's only now propogating. ;)

LOL!  The client in question with the C&W span didn't go down until 11:30 
CDT.  However, their circuit is tied to the C&W master ticket that defines 
the outage as a train derailment.  Maybe we've just hit WorldCom's 
maintenance window (don't spaz, I'm just kidding).