Re: BBN outage

["Charles R. Hoynowski" <charles () etak com>]

Rob Liebschutz <rob () rjl com> says:

> > Most of the SF Bay Area portion of BBN Planet's network has been offline
> > since late last night. I've finally heard, via a friend who is a major
> > customer of theirs, that they are having power problems in Palo Alto.
> >
> > Now, I haven't heard a peep about this on any of the mailing lists I'm on...
> > and since knowing about BIG outages like this would make it easier for
> > me to answer my customer's questions... am I missing something? 
> >
> > Is there a mailing list that I should be on? Or is this just a private
> > BBN issue that I'd need to call their ops center people about (people who
> > I'm sure are very very busy without small network operators calling them)
> >
> > -matthew kaufman
> >  matthew () scruz net
>
> I just spoke to their NOC and was told that a power switch that is
> supposed to be able to switch them between 3 different power utilities
> failed at 12:30 this morning (friday).  They bought and installed 2
> large diesel generators today and are hoping to be back up using the
> generators within 30 minutes.


We're trying to figure out how long BBN's been down, are you talking 
12:30am PDT?  If so, then they been down 16 hours.  I started seeing mail 
failures to Stanford (a big BBN site) at 9:33am PDT and first got email 
about the problem from another ISP at around 11am.


--charles
charles () etak com
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