Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CCS.BBN.COM!malis From: malis@CCS.BBN.COM (Andrew Malis) Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Arpanet outage Message-ID: <8612171809.AA17738@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 09:34:12 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612171809.AA17738 Posted: Wed Dec 17 09:34:12 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 03:13:27 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa Dan, To answer your question: when service was restored, the PSNs automatically brought the trunks back up and reconnected the network together. No manual intervention required. Andy P.S. Here's another good topic to rant and rave about: Don't you hate it when hosts keep messages sitting in queues for days, and conversations get out of sync? Take, for example, this message we all just received this morning: Received: from SRI-NIC.ARPA by CCS.BBN.COM ; 17 Dec 86 08:48:38 EST Received: from vax.darpa.mil by SRI-NIC.ARPA with TCP; Wed 17 Dec 86 00:03:07-PST Received: by vax.darpa.mil (4.12/4.7) id AA19852; Mon, 15 Dec 86 05:42:39 est Date: Mon 15 Dec 86 05:42:30-EST From: Dennis G. PerrySubject: Re: Arpanet outage It took about 42 hours for vax.darpa.mil to send it to SRI-NIC.ARPA, and another 9 hours to make it to me.