[IMail Forum] UUNET Down

[Rick Leske]

Significant problems across UUNet network according to Reuters, Worldcom suffered a significant outage today that cut off several businesses, took some websites off-line, and slowed traffic traveling across the company's UUNet network. The company's website earlier informed customers that "WorldCom is currently experiencing an interruption of service in various hubs in the U.S. We are working to restore a routing anomaly, and making necessary progress toward resolving this disruption in service." You can track the "anomaly" via the company's network status page. Update: Dotcom Scoop has obtained the internal trouble ticket timeline for the incident.