Quoting Yaron (jethro at freakzilla.com):
> What the HELL is up with Sprint??!?

Looks like a hardware problem in Chicago:

Date: 26-FEB-2001       Time: 00:00-07:00 AM Local Time Duration: 30 Minutes
Network: Sprintlink     MaintType: Outage
Sprint Ticket: 4395384  Sprint Maint Id: 2817
Description: Replace Hardware
Routers Affected:
SL-GW18-CHI

Probably a misconfig on it now, since it's new hardware, :-)
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