Problems reaching Texas Higher Education (the.net)

Can anyone else confirm difficulty reaching hosts on the.net, e.g.,
mims.utdallas.edu.

Our customer reports a several day outage.

Thanks,

Larry

Please contact <trouble@the.net> or 512/471-8530.

Thanks,
-- Jeff Hayward

Jeff Hayward wrote:

Please contact <trouble@the.net> or 512/471-8530.

Thanks,
-- Jeff Hayward

   Can anyone else confirm difficulty reaching hosts on the.net, e.g.,
   mims.utdallas.edu.

   Our customer reports a several day outage.

   Thanks,

   Larry

There is a lot of latency and PL to this site. What type of circuit is
this,

Mohamed

traceroute to mims.utdallas.edu (129.110.70.11), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets.

1 Ethernet5-1.willow-gw.UU.NET (153.39.239.1) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
2 Fddi4-0.IBMpc03.UU.NET (153.39.62.2) 1 ms 5 ms 3 ms
3 137.39.253.241 (137.39.253.241) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms
4 124.ATM10-0-0.XR1.TCO1.ALTER.NET (146.188.160.186) 2 ms 2 ms 4 ms
5 193.ATM11-0-0.BR1.TCO1.ALTER.NET (146.188.160.73) 4 ms 3 ms 2 ms
6 137.39.103.18 (137.39.103.18) 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms
7 sl-bb5-dc-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.2) 21 ms 21 ms 16
ms
8 sl-bb3-dc-4-0-0-155M.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.6) 18 ms 23 ms
20ms
9 sl-fw-5-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.10.18) 109 ms 114 ms 114 ms
10 208.12.128.15 (208.12.128.15) 108 ms 110 ms 107 ms
11 sl-uoftx-1-0-0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.135.34) 123 ms * *
12 * utx1-h4-0.tx-bb.net (192.12.10.13) 116 ms 123 ms
13 ut5-fe1-0-0.tx-bb.net (192.12.10.29) 113 ms 109 ms 119 ms
14 * utd6-h1-0.the.net (129.117.24.18) 126 ms *
15 192.225.17.1 (192.225.17.1) 161 ms 182 ms 135 ms
16 * * mims.utdallas.edu (129.110.70.11) 143 ms