Apparently the Southern leg was already down due to some faults, and the
Northern part has also had a failure this evening.
Someone mentioned that AboveNet/MFN have been completely cut off from
Europe, indeed I can't reach them outside of the UK.
http://www.kddiscs.co.jp/e/business/02_15.html
"About the TAT-14 Cable Network - This transatlantic cable system is in full
service, connecting the United States to the United Kingdom, France, The
Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.
The cable system is a dual, bi-directional ring configuration using DWDM
multiplexing with 16 wavelengths of STM-64 per fiber pair. The system also
utilizes reverse direction protection switching in the event of failure of
the service fiber.
It has a dual route, transatlantic capacity of 640 Gbits on 2 service fiber
pairs backed up by 2 protection fiber pairs. This configuration provides a
capability of transporting 4,096 STM-1's or approximately 9,700,000 circuits
across the ocean."
> There was a problem with the TAT-14 line that connects the US to most of
> Europe which has caused a large number of sites to become unavailable.
This is rumoured to be because of a DOS attack involving NTL, BT and
Zone Labs. There is speak of it in the UK Broadband Usergroup forums.
Mostly because the benighted Crack Marketing Team at ZL demanded that
the auto-update feature (generally a Good Thing) could not be manually
over-ridden 'permanently', and as ZL was unobtainable, the DNS servers
got a hammering.
ZL will issue a patch soon. <sigh, this is the *second time*>.
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