Following the collapse of Dutch telco KPNQwest, an estimated 100 former employees and been maintaining the Ebone network that is reckoned to carry up to a quarter of all European web traffic. Now, the unpaid heros are ready to close down their servers unless a buyer for the infrastructure comes forward.
The would-be unemployees sent out an email last night warning the closure of the network could affect web sites and emails globally "You will feel the impact of the global price increases that must result from the closure of a network of this magnitude," they said.

Ebone boasts many European ISPs among its clients, including AOL and Easynet, as well as other carriers such as C&W, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom. The remaining workers fear the clients are not taking the implications of the shut-down seriously. The workers had asked clients to fork out in advance to guarantee continued service during June, but most have refused to do so. Now they threaten to pull the plug on the network, to show how damaging the shutdown could be

Graham Kinsey, who manages the Ebone in Brussels told journalists: "The biggest corporations are the ones that do not believe that Ebone will go down. They don't really appreciate how close we are to shutting down. Any company that has no backup will go down," he said. "Some customers may have a fallback provider, but it may not be sufficient."

KPNQwest bought the Ebone network in March this year from US carrier GTS, in a deal that stretched the company's finances. The Dutch company filed for bankruptcy at the end of May.

News source: The Inquirer

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  • Ricochet included in this release.
  • Added logging of the anti-cheat system catching and kicking detected cheats.
  • Added logging of "kick" commands.
  • Added logging of "banid" commands.
  • Changed error message if clients try to download missing resources to be more helpful.
  • Changed 'exec' command now only works on .cfg and .rc files.
  • Changed 'exec' command no longer allows ".." or "" or ":" in the filename.
  • Added new debug message for mod makers if a packet couldn't be parsed correctly.
  • Linux: hlds_run now does auto-restart by default (to disable: define "-norestart" on the command line)
  • Linux: hlds_run uses "exec" when you define the "-norestart" option.
  • Linux: Added -pingboost command line parameter. Currently supports three different methods ('-pingboost 1', '-pingboost 2', and 'pingboost 3'). These may not work well (or at all) on some OS environments.
  • Linux: Added "-debug" flag to hlds_run to automatically run gdb and pull out useful info.

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  • Added "serverversion", can be set to '1108' to view/re-record old demos.
  • Added "sv_logbans" to turn the logging of player bans on and off. Default is 0 (off).

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  • Fixed incorrect WonID logging.
  • Fixed sv_allowdownload being required to be set to 1 for clients to connect to secure servers.
  • Fixed 'bad address type' fatal error on servers that attempt to run in secure mode but have no DNS resolution.
  • Fixed DropClient messages for Steam clients who were banned or have a duplicate Steam ID to properly show the SteamID of the client.
  • Fixed HLTV reporting wrong spectator numbers if connection to server was pending.
  • Fixed "multicast 1" not working if it was issued before HLTV connected to game server.
  • Fixed relay proxies reporting wrong spectator/slots numbers in multiplayer/LAN menu.
  • Fixed DMC powerup bug where the invisibility ring would make people glow red.
  • Fixed rcon bug in HLTV.
  • Fixed delay being reset to default value during changelevel.
  • Fixed a problem with propagating HLTV banners.
  • Fixed client freeze on exit.
  • Fixed framerate problem on some ATI video cards.
  • Fixed MaxPing filter not being saved correctly.
  • Fixed sky box bug.
  • Fixed TFC spy disguise menu bug.
  • Fixed DMC view model animation bug.
  • Fixed bug using "exec " on large files (e.g. banned.cfg).
  • Linux: Fixed server using 64 MB more memory than it needed to.
  • Linux: Fixed 'undefined symbol: __strtouq_internal' on some Linux systems.
  • Linux: Fixed segmentation fault on some Linux systems when attempting to run in secure mode.

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