[plug] Internet Outage

[Adrian Chadd]

A link between Perth and the East Coast which a large number of ISPs
use quite extensively is down.

Some ISPs aren't down, some ISPs were down but aren't down, and I think
things are slowly coming back to normal as I type.



Adrian
(Xenion wasn't down, thankfully. :)


On Fri, Oct 26, 2007, Andrew Furey wrote:
> On 26/10/2007, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > There was a rumour that internet access in WA was down.
> >
> > Is this true ?
> >
> > Something between Westnet and/or Telstra???
> >
> >
> > If so, does anyone know how or why ?
> 
> 
> Not too sure, but I did get this from Westnet a few mins ago:
> 
> --quote--
> Issue: Unscheduled Outage
> 
> Due to an unscheduled outage in a third party provider's network at
> 10:15am WST (12:15pm EST) today, customers in Western Australia are
> currently unable to reach sites outside WA.
> 
> Customers outside WA will be experiencing difficulties when attempting
> to reach Westnet Hosted Web and Mail Services. Third party provider
> technicians are continuing to investigate this is at a high priority
> but unfortunately we have not been provided a time at which services
> will be returned to normal.
> 
> Thank you for your patience.
> --/quote--
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> -- 
> Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same
> reason that only children read books with only pictures in them.
> Language, be it English or something else, is the only tool flexible
> enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of tasks.
>                           -- Bill Garrett
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au

-- 
- Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support -
- $25/pm entry-level bandwidth-capped VPSes available in WA -