Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: !carroll@ssc-vax.uucp (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unusually Heavy Traffic the First Night? Message-ID: <16427@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Jan 91 01:38:14 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Jeff Carroll Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 38 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 67, Message 10 of 11 In article <16229@accuvax.nwu.edu> telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >Other than for about fifteen minutes at the start of the war, >connections here appear to be moving smoothly. What experiences did >you have in other places? I imagine that here at Boeing our leased lines were probably tied up all over the metro area, but that happens every time it snows :^). >On a related note, how are net connections to the middle east being >maintained at this time? Are any sites able to get through at all >with news? I just fingered vms.huji.ac.il, a VAX at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; it responded promptly with the following: [128.139.4.3] Friday, January 25, 1991 3:30AM-GMT Up 10 03:52:57 4+4 Jobs Load ave 3.04 3.02 3.06 User Personal Name Job Subsys Idle TTY Console Location DEKEL Avishai Dekel 204001DB *DCL* 1:49.nty26 TCP: galaxy.huji.ac. SERAN Eran Megido 20402D7C BMAIL nty1 TCP: ls2.huji.ac.il SIMON Simon Shickman 20400144 *DCL* 6:41.nty13 TCP: horizon.huji.ac TZVI1 Tsvi Kidron 204006B7 *DCL* 9:40.nty8 TCP: carmel.cc.huji. Life seems to be going on in Jerusalem... Jeff Carroll carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com [Moderator's Note: Well, Adolph -- er, I mean Saddam seems to not be bothering Jerusalem at all; it is Tel Aviv which is getting the rough time this past week. Are sites there still connected? PAT]