A major Internet Service Provider reports:

Originally posted on Fri Aug 25 16:34:35 PDT 2000

FRIDAY AUG. 25th:

We are currently experiencing an outage on two cross-country circuits(OC12 & OC48). The source of the problem has not been determined.

All traffic has been re-routed through a redundant OC48 from San Jose, Ca. to Seattle turned up just today.

AT this time we do not have an ETR for the downed circuits and latency may be experienced at this time due to re-routing.

Dark Ages servers are fast and stable; running well below maximum load with 0 server lag at peak volume. If you do experience latency, test your connection ( http://www.darkages.com/support/trace_route.htm ).