Bill Barto wrote:

Actually they cut the fiber cable going to the SSL to get at copper wire.
Here is the news from Berkeley on that one.

"March 5, 2001

Around 11:00 GMT (3:00am PST) on Tuesday, February 27, 2001, network fibers
were broken, cutting off the entire Space Sciences Laboratory and Lawrence
Berkeley Labs from the internet. It turns out this was the work of vandals
who cut the fiber in the process of gathering a bunch of expensive copper
wire. Due to the difficulty in finding the break, and then repairing in the
rain and mud (on a steep slope no less), the outage lasted over five days."



Ahhh, the memories.

What took so long?  Didn't they have access to an OTDR back then?  Or are the campus cable maps as bad as the rest of the telecom world?