[ale] bellsouth DSL dropped last night

[Jeff Lightner]

There's a story in today's AJC (online) regarding the outage
acknowledged by Awful Telephone & Telegraph.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
James P. Kinney III
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:41 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] bellsouth DSL dropped last night

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 11:27 -0500, Michael Smith wrote:
> I was using Bellsouth DSL last night but I use a local caching name
> server and opendns for my names resolution.  I stopped surfing around
> 10:45 in the Roswell area and never had any issues.  In fact I was
> getting the speeds I was supposed to for a change. 

That was because all the other bellsouth DSL surfers were dead in the
water with no DNS :)
> 
> On 12/4/07, Bob Ebbitt <bob.ebbitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>         There was something on the news this morning about AT&T
>         dropped the entire South East last night. I did not catch why.
>         
>         
>         On Dec 4, 2007 7:45 AM, Paul Cartwright < ale at pcartwright.com>
>         wrote:
>                 Am I the only one that lost my DSL service last
>                 night??? 
>                 I tried a traceroute and all it did was bounce around
>                 a few of the same
>                 subnets and die.
>                 the link was still up, but no nameserver for sure.
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