Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users

Mon Jun 23 20:52:14 UTC 2003

stupi.net was offline??

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:

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> Has anyone heard what the cause of the outage was?
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> Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users
> Saturday, 21 June 2003
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> The breakdown of one of Sweden's main Internet routers in Stockholmon
> today unplugged more than 1 million of its Internet subscribers.
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> Reports says in total over 340,000 broadband and 700,000 dial-up customers
> across the country were affected by the incident.
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> The router failure might also have caused disruptions to other Internet
> subscribers, who use the services of providers operating on the Telia
> network.
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> http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_885166.htm
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