DirectLink System status.
- Friday, September 29, 2000
At 6:30 pm MCI/Worldcom had there downtown OC12 and OC48 Circuits go
down, This is effecting our primary backbone connection and several
inbound T3's that support ADSL through GTE. UUnet/Worldcom are currently
looking at this problem and have an ETA of 2:00pm today.
- Sunday, September 17, 2000
At 6:00 am UUnet/Worldcom discovered an intermittent problem with the
OC12 that our UUnet connection go through, This will result in sporadic
connection drops. UUnet/Worldcom are currently looking at this problem
and have an ETA of 5:00pm today.
- Sunday, September 17, 2000
At 4:00 am we will be bringing down several backbone connections for
testing. This might prevent some customers from accessing the internet
for several minutes.
- Saturday, September 16, 2000
At around 8:30 PM our main backbone connections (Primary and Secondary)
with UUNet went down for about 60 minutes this evening do to a router
change at UUnet. UUnet did not schedule this move with us and they did
not properly route our IP's back
to us. These connections are backup now and running properly.
In addition, GTE has had problems throughout DFW for the past 2 -3 weeks
due
to upgrades and we currently do not have status from GTE on when they
will have stability back on there network.
- Saturday, August 19, 2000
GTE Switch upgrades are effecting all DirectLink GTE ADSL customers.
Downtime should be from 1:00am to 2:30am.
- Friday, August 18, 2000
GTE Switch upgrades are effecting the Plano TX. and surrounding areas.
Downtime should be from 1:00am to 2:30am.
- Friday, August 18, 2000
We have been informed by GTE that they will be performing switch
upgrades in the DFW area from 8/15/2000 to 9/12/2000.
- Thursday, May 4, 2000
8:00pm. Do to the weather our phone system is currently down, if you
have any questions you can email support@directlink.net.
- Tuesday, Feb 8, 2000
9:00pm. The Internet backbone is currently experiencing routing
instabilities across the entire United States. The backbone senior
network engineers are currently working to correct any problems. More
information will be provided as it becomes available.
Sunday, January 23, 2000
Network Outage 3:50pm - 4:10pm. Someone at UUnet had taken our circuits
out of their router configs, taking down our primary and secondary links
leaving only our third connection out to Digex. Everything is back to
normal now.
- Wednesday, December 15, 1999
At 6:40 PM we learned that UUnet has several core ATM switches down
on their backbone. Both our primary and secondary links are affected by
this outage.
6:48 PM - UUNet resolved the problems.
- Monday, November 1, 1999
DirectLink has finished the cut over to the ISP News news servers
and news.DirectLink.net is now pointing to the servers. If you are
having problems news groups as a result of this, you will need to reload
the groups into your reader.
- Thursday, October 21, 1999
DirectLink has signed a deal with ISP News as our new news
outsourcing service. On November 1st, 1999 we will convert the
news.DirectLink.net to point to the new server.
- Thursday, October 14, 1999
DirectLink learned today the Giganews, our news feed outsource has
made the decision to and has completed a bandwidth cap of 64k per
session.
Giganews did not inform DirectLink "or" any other ISP of
these changes, and if Giganews does not comply to our requests to be
converted back by 11/16/99, we will convert over to another news feed.
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