[plug] Internet Outage

[Richard Meyer]

I was down from about 7.45pm Wednesday - Westnet told me it was a
Telstra issue.

It was sorted by 6.00 pm yesterday.

No further details.

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 14:51 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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
> > 
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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