WorldCom Suffers Widespread Internet Outage

Wed Oct 9 03:19:07 UTC 2002

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:49:44PM -0400, blitz wrote:

> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=575&u=/nm/20021003/wr_nm/tech_worldcom_outage_dc_5&printer=1

> Made the news...

[...]

   Based on a preliminary investigation, WorldCom blamed the outage on
   problems with a "route table," or software map that directs traffic
   to the proper destination. The company declined to identify the
   route table manufacturer.

 --cw