[EAS] CARRIER OUTAGE!??

[ray at electronicstheory.com]

@Eric Adler -

Thanks for the heads-up concerning the known outages.

I understand backhoe fade, (as well as fat-finger fade), but since I can ping,
nmap, and access get the box's internal web server, I threw that possibility
out. Ports 80 and 443 work (so it does do CAP and its internal web server is
functional), but it no longer sends email (logs), and they can't be accessed via
SSH for troubleshooting/maintenance any more.

The problem "seems" more software than hardware based. All our boxes (both
working and non-working) are using the same version of software, were tested to
be fully functional before they left Dallas to parts unknown, and have since
been working fine but recently (last week or so) failed.

As for their locations, some are east coast (Boston for instance), and some are
as far west as Arizona. Our network is based out of Dallas, but we have stations
nationwide exhibiting similar problems.  About 1/10th of our boxes across the
country are presently showing the same issue.

Firewalls vary from site to site, depending on what the particular carrier
provides at time of hook-up.

Ray