Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Jon Baker Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wisconsin Bell / AT&T Making Random Connections Message-ID: <8804@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 90 04:15:58 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Jon Baker Organization: Crossroads, Phoenix, AZ 85046 Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 421, Message 9 of 10 In article <8728@accuvax.nwu.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes: >The most interesting thing about this is that these aren't just >"misdirected" calls; neither party initiates the call. The phone just >rings at both ends. One person in Madison was getting about eighty >A Wisconsin Bell spokesman said that the company is trying to track >down the problem, with the help of AT&T. We had this problem at our local (Chandler,AZ) exchange last year. The problem was tracked down by 'experts from AT&T' to a bug in the 5E (jab, jab, jab). We didn't have international calls though - it was just within the CO. Got to chat with some very nice people ... \ / C r o s s r o a d s C o m m u n i c a t i o n s /\ (602) 941-2005 300-2400,9600 PEP Baud 24 hrs/day / \ hplabs!hp-sdd!crash!xroads!bakerj