Re: Internet shutdown Feb 29? (fwd)

[Charles Gimon <gimonca@skypoint.com>]

Brief article on last summer's Minnesota outage is available
at http://www.info-nation.com/burnin.html . There's a link
in there (I think it still works) to a local IRC log of
U of M people trading info during the blackout.


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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 08:11:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Kevin L Prigge <Kevin.L.Prigge-2@tc.umn.edu>

A few months back, some winos took most of Minnesota off the net
for a couple days. Upset with being kicked out from under a bridge,
they started a fire that took out the main fiber cable from 
downtown to MRNet + the U of M. Backup? Due to a mistake at a CO,
the backup link was routed thru the same area, and was also burned.
Interesting scrambling as nameservers puked and died.