Re: More on Moscow power failure( was RE: Moscow: global power outage)

["Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>]

RIPN and Relcom was not affected, except their M9 colocations. They had, in
theory, backup connectivity thru another node, but I am not sure, if it
really worked or not.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Abley" <jabley () isc org>
To: <Michael.Dillon () radianz com>
Cc: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: More on Moscow power failure( was RE: Moscow: global power
outage)


> On 2005-05-26, at 07:12, Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:
>
> > The Russian media have lots of details about the power
> > outage, but the general media hardly mentions the fact
> > that there was a disruption of Internet service.
> >
> > The MSK-IX web page still has no news about the incident
> > and no explanation as to why they shut down.
>
> It's not clear to me that the MSK-IX shut down entirely, although it
> does look like it took a major hit. While I see most of our MSK-IX
> sessions came up around 2 days 3 hours ago we have at least one that
> has been up for 4 weeks, suggesting that at least part of one of the
> switch fabrics stayed up throughout.
>
> The F root nameserver in Moscow is colocated with RIPN. Neither of
> the nameservers in the F-root cluster there show signs of power
> failure, in case it helps anybody else here to know of a site in
> Moscow that has functional power supply protection.
>
> F-root traffic graphs in Moscow suggest local impact was limited to a
> 5-6 hour window ending around midnight Tuesday UTC.
>
>
> Joe