[23002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Palo Alto Power Hit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Aitken)
Tue Feb 9 14:10:23 1999
From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
In-Reply-To: <990209115700.15707@SDG.DRA.COM> from Sean Donelan at "Feb 9, 1999 11:57: 0 am"
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:52:08 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan writes:
> The City of Palo Alto had a power problem early this morning, estimated
> at 7:30PST 9-Feb-1999. Portions of the city were without power, and there
> are some reports of some telelcommunications carriers in the area being
> affected. So far none of the carriers I've contacted would confirm or
> deny any problems, although some customers of carriers did report problems.
>
> P.S. The Digital/Compaq PAIX sent a note saying they were NOT affected.
Earlier today UUNET sent out this message:
> Subject: Notification of Incident
> From: UUNET WorldCom Customer Notification <customer-notify@UU.NET>
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:27:21 -0500 (EST)
>
> Dear UUNET WorldCom Customer,
>
> Currently your internet connection may be down due to a UUNET outage.
> We will contact you again once the situation is remedied. In the
> meantime, if you want further updates, please call our Technical Support
> Center at 1.800.900.0241 (Press option 1).
>
> Please do not respond to this message.
>
> Thank You for your patience.
> UUNET WorldCom
Calling the 800 number listed gave minimal details, but did identify
a power outage as the source of the problem.
--Jeff
