[ale] Re: bellsouth DSL dropped last night

[James P. Kinney III]

That's good planning. The loss of a _single_ router killed connectivity
for customers across 9 states. That team should run for office.

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 09:23 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> According to article I read yesterday the major outage at Awful T&T was
> due to a router failure.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Philips
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:34 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Re: bellsouth DSL dropped last night
> 
> bugy at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > On my opinion Bellsouth lost a DNS service.
> > I shut down and turn back on the modem ( Westell ).
> > I take a look on "Broadband DSL line" admin page.
> > The first DNS server was missing ( Unavailable ).
> > Ping to Europian web site was in reasonable time !
> > _______________________________________________
> >   
> I was trying to understand why I never noticed anything. Could it be
> because I use OpenDNS?
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