[115632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Jul 3 17:00:00 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Ben Carleton <bc-list@beztech.net>
In-Reply-To: <0E7F941E-5675-4B41-A904-444EC5CD7DEF@beztech.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:59:41 -0400
Cc: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Ben Carleton wrote:
> Yes it was.
>
> On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>
>> Wasn't Authorize.net affected by this? We received a support ticket
>> about why Authorize.net is down today (I don't know either, I don't
>> ask too many questions).
>>
Authorize.net was for a while completely off the air, and companies
that relied upon them
were not getting credit card authorizations (and, thus, no ecommerce).
I think it is still only
partially functional.
Authorize.net has been communicating with customers mostly
(entirely ?) with twitter - they are
@AuthorizeNet with a hash tab of #authorizenet
If you go there, you will see a lot of status messages like
#authorizenet (cont.) Do not manually submit ARB transactions b/c you
run the risk of your merchants being double billed.
10 minutes ago from web
(i.e., 4:47 EDT).
You will also see a lot of posts from annoyed people if you search on
#authorizenet
It's an interesting use of Web 2.0 for emergency communications.
Regards
Marshall
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes<tomb@byrneit.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Earth is a single point of failure, where is your backup site?
>>>
>>> [TLB:] Given that all my customers are on Earth, I don't need one
>>> if my
>>> customers also are "down".
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team
>> jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net
>> Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc.
>>
>> Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th -
>> 12th
>> at Booth #401.
>>
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