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East Coast Network Outage?
June 30, 2004
It seemed like there was an issue with my email so I called my email provider to check into why I couldn’t get to their server. As a geek, I came prepared with a number of ping attempts, network mapping, etc… and learned that there is a major outage somewhere on an East Coast Time-Warner backbone. Has anyone else heard about this?
Quick searches through Feedster and Bloglines show that the problem may be pretty widespread but apparently, the department of homeland security doesn’t want us to know about it.
When major outages happened in the past, news organizations covered them but it seems that we now have a major multi-day outage impacting a number of people and services that is being left unreported. Why is that? If you have had experience for the past few days with some network issues, please add your comment to the thread on this entry. I’m trying to figure out how widespread the problem is. Is it only affecting certain portions of the net? Is it a bigger deal? I don’t know but I sure wouldn’t mind knowing.
