"Timothy G. Smith - Special Projects" <tgsmith@spdev.east.sun.com> (06/26/91)
I suspect that you have already heard about this but in case you haven't ... C&P is having major problems today. It is an interesting failure mode. Local calls that don't originate and terminate on the same switch for the most part fail -- they result in a fast busy. Long distance calls seem to work fine. E911 is working. 411 and 611 seem to be OK also. Our leased lines (T1s and 56k circuits) in our Vienna (Northern VA) and Columbia (MD) office all seem to be unaffected. I can send email, read news, and make LD calls. However I can't pick up the phone and call my customers who are ten miles away. My handheld cellular can talk to the cell and complete LD and toll free calls but can't complete local calls. The radio says that as many as seven states are affected (I know of MD, VA, and Washington DC). The radio also says that C&P thinks it is some sort of major computer failure. No kidding! It will be interesting to see what happens. tim