[ale] bellsouth DSL dropped last night

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Tue Dec 4 12:03:00 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 11:56 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> There's a story in today's AJC (online) regarding the outage
> acknowledged by Awful Telephone & Telegraph.

	That's the same AP story that's on cnn.com as well.

	I predict a sudden increase in Linux users setting up their own caching
nameservers (which is not difficult at all with either dnsmasq or bind).

	Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
> >                 --
> >                 Paul Cartwright
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