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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: What happened to nic.funet.fi
- In-Reply-To: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.143208.20049@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi
- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <71134@apple.Apple.COM> <16brlpINN49t@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Aug12.204558.23336@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:32:08 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- >The gateway for Finland's connection to the Internet (in Norway or
- >Sweden, I believe) is down for repairs or somesuch. This obviously
- >has effects on those of us on this side of the world (well, anywhere
- >outside of Finland itself, I guess) and access to those sites.
-
- There's been problems with the line between Finland and Sweden. The
- line is provided by the telecoms (I think both Finnish and Swedish),
- so direct your flames there.
-
- There was a report that they found at least one problem with the line
- and fixed it, so line outages should be less frequent in the future.
-
- //Jyrki
-