From: Daniel Lorca (lorca@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 11:15:59 PST
As of 7AM this morning, I managed to check UCLink using ATTBI...
Cheers,
Dan.
At 10:38 AM -0800 12/14/01, Eileen Pinto wrote:
>Has anyone had any further update/information from ATTBI on this issue?
>
>From my own experience (not being able to connect to campus hosts
>running TCP_WRAPPERS), polling other ATTBI users who ARE able to
>connect, and having the ongoing problem of losing
>connectivity to other campus servers periodically and sometimes
>being able to regain a connection
>by releasing and renewing the IP addresses, but often not being able
>to do so, it seems that these problems really are ATTBI hub-specific
>and are due to DHCP server capacity issues in allocating IP
>addresses for that hub. For instance, folks on the (former?) Pinole
>hub can connect and can maintain their connections (obtain/renew an
>ip when it expires) just fine; those on the Pleasanton and other
>very crowded (SF? Berkeley? not sure where these map) hubs have had
>the ip renewal problem, plus now the problem that ATTBI caused
>starting Tuesday 12/11 when they tried to "fix" this bottleneck.
>
>Just my take on it.
>
>Sending email regarding the problem has only resulted in a canned
>response from the Online Customer Support Center which had
>absolutely nothing to do with the actual problem itself, so for
>campus connectivity from home, it's been back to Earthlink for now.
>
>
>At 03:46 PM 12/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>Melinda G? You mean Melinda Gates now works for ATT?
>>
>>Thanks for getting through, it has been very hard. Many of the contact
>>addresses aren't working or their mail servers are refusing connections!
>>
>>On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 rapmail@socrates.berkeley.edu wrote:
>>
>>> >Sometime yesterday, AT&T pretty seriously screwed up their DNS for
>>> >ATTBI.COM. Specifically, the reverse and forward hostname to address
>>> >mappings don't match.
>>>
>>> I finally got through to second-level at ATTBI. Here's their response.
>>>
>>> T-Melinda G says: I will escalate this know issue
>>> T-Melinda G says: On behalf of AT&T, I apologize for any inconvenience
>>> T-Melinda G says: We have not been given an estimated time when the
>>> problem will be fully resolved, however engineers are trying
>>> to resolve this issue as fast as possible. We appreciate your
>>> patience and we apologize
>>>
>>> ..Richard Peters
>>> CCS/ACS
>>>
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