Hi all Seems like some of us were stung by a major outage affecting at least Iconz' upstream yesterday, but probably others were affected also. One of our largest customers - a power line service contractor covering 3/5 of the country - was severely stung by the routing issue yesterday as Contact Energy deliver their job notices through a mail sanitization house in the United States, who were attempting to route back through to New Zealand but were unable to do so. Fortunately Contact were contacted (pun unintentional) by their provider in the states who arranged a resolution by bouncing the mail off one of our boxes here. Thanks to them the outage as far as it affected Joe Public at his home and business was only about 2 hours... So what the hell happened? Obviously the problem was with the endpoint in the USA and therefore outside of anyone in NZ's responsibility... Tom Hibbert Technical Specialist Phone: +64-9-306-0230 Technical Helpdesk: +64-9-306-0234 Mobile: +64-274-307-784 Email: tom(a)nsp.co.nz Website: http://www.nsp.co.nz The information in this email and any attachments is confidential. This information may be subject to legal, professional, or other privilege. It must not be disclosed to any person without our authority. If you are not the intended recipient you are not authorised to and must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it. Please return this message to the sender immediately and delete any and all copies from your system.