Even with claims by the nation's major service providers of superior "six-9" reliability, the facts remain clear: downtime happens and federal network outage data proves it. Just three months into 2002, every major network supplier has reported intermittent failures linked to inevitable causes.
http://www.dpstele.com/dpsnews/pr_06-20-2002.html
Within just 24 hours of email system failure, almost one-fifth of IT managers said their jobs would be on the line.
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Lycos customers have been without e-mail access for most of this week, after what was supposed to be a routine server software upgrade went awry
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AOL Time Warner on Wednesday said full service had been temporarily restored for Road Runner and America Online subscribers locked out of Microsoft Web sites, as more details emerged about a glitch that inconvenienced millions of Web surfers for nearly two days. A source close to Microsoft who asked to remain anonymous said the lockout stemmed from changes in a bandwidth "peering" agreement between AOL and Microsoft.
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5071188.html
A software glitch in Network Solutions' hosted Web addressing system knocked what may have been as many as 30,000 Web sites and e-mail addresses offline for several hours Thursday morning. The company had recently touted the near-infallibility of its addressing system as a core selling point for new customers.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5058519.html
Microsoft on Sunday afternoon restored its MSN Web sites and services that had been inaccessible most of the morning and left many users unable to access game, Web-based e-mail, chat, search and other features.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-911705.html?tag=nl
In January 2001, eBay's site was down for nearly 11 hours after its primary and backup systems failed because of the company's decision to delay replacing some of its hardware. In June 2001, an Internet routing problem left eBay's site intermittently accessible for about four hours.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-860703.html
For much of the past week, two large stretches of the Internet turned invisible to each other.
Unlike the electrical outages plaguing California, which no one wants, this intentional blackout suited the purposes of one side in the collapse of talks between two major Internet service providers, Cable & Wireless and the financially strapped PSINet. A critical link between the two networks was cut, blocking some companies from seeing their own Web sites, and stalling e-mail between thousands of sources.
Although a connection between Cable & Wireless and PSINet was re-established Tuesday night, the squabble illustrates just how fragile the Internet's series of connected, largely unregulated private networks can be. The Net has built its strength in part on this decentralized, unregulated environment, but the ISPs' fight underscores that very little can prevent future blackouts like this from happening
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-267943.html
It seems that even the experts get fooled sometimes. A Trojan horse posing as a security tool did just that Wednesday night, when experts at SecurityFocus.com--which moderates the popular Bugtraq security list--sent the mildly malicious code to the list's 37,000 users. "It seemed like legitimate code," said Elias Levy, chief technology officer for SecurityFocus. "It was given to us late last night. We sent a copy to (security software maker) Network Associates, and they said it looked OK."
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-251947.html
Microsoft blamed its own technicians for a crucial error that crippled the software giant's connection to the Internet, almost completely blocking access to its major Web sites for nearly 24 hours.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-251427.html
One of the few points that connect the Internet's hundreds of networks was crippled for much of this week, forcing massive amounts of Internet traffic to shy away from the WorldCom-owned facility.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-243142.html
ISPs say MCI outage could kill businesses. Steven Efurd is afraid of losing his seven-year-old Internet service provider business in Tyler, Texas. He's lost his connection to the Net for eight days now--the first extended outage in his company's history, he says--and hundreds of his customers are beginning to flee. MCI WorldCom's woes began more than a week ago, when a planned software upgrade to their high-speed data network went awry Thursday evening.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-229823.html
Hotmail users are getting hot under the collar about a new round of service problems that some claim have kept them out of their accounts for as long as four days.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-227776.html?legacy=cnet
Anti-virus company McAfee came under fire this week after a programming error in its downloadable anti-virus software brought desktop computer systems to a halt in small businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. September 2003
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