[24946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power outage in Vienna, Virginia and other things
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Aug 24 06:00:36 1999
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 4:45:30 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
SEAN@dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes:
>While checking on Vienna, I also found I had problems reaching sites
>in Boston, MA. Both Tufts University and Boston University are off-net.
>I haven't heard of anything happening in the Boston area. I know Tufts
>switch providers, but I don't know about BU. So the information in the
>RADB may not give good information for reaching the correct upstream
>provider.
The sites have come back up, and it appears the former nearnet lost
more customers than I knew about. Because the new provider doesn't
include information in an public RADB-like database, I didn't realize
all the sites went through the same place. I was looking for and asking
the wrong provider. UUNET had announced on their maintenance page they are
replacing routers in Boston, MA this morning. The router maintenance
affected the sites I was using to check for problems: computerworld.com,
tufts.edu, and bu.edu. I guess its time to look for new beacons.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
