Here is UUnet's latest response: apparently they've suffered massive
congestion and an impacted network in about 10 minutes! That's a good
sales team! Apparently they got their OC-12 network installed ahead of
schedule as well, as we are finally back to normal:
Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to drawbridge.ascend.com (198.4.92.1)
1 520.Hssi8-0.GW1.SDG1.ALTER.NET (137.39.132.5) 4 msec
575.Hssi3-0.GW1.SDG1.ALTER.NET (157.130.224.17) 20 msec
520.Hssi8-0.GW1.SDG1.ALTER.NET (137.39.132.5) 8 msec
2 114.Hssi4-0.CR1.LAX1.Alter.Net (137.39.31.41) 16 msec 8 msec 8 msec
3 111.Hssi8-0.CR1.SCL1.Alter.Net (137.39.30.213) 28 msec 104 msec 20
msec
4 311.atm1-0.gw1.scl1.alter.net (137.39.13.149) 80 msec 60 msec 24 msec
5 external-gw.ascend.com (198.4.92.2) [AS 701] 48 msec 28 msec 40 msec
6 drawbridge.ascend.com (198.4.92.1) [AS 701] 36 msec 52 msec 32 msec
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