[36459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier reliability and diversity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Fri Apr 6 12:04:37 2001
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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 12:01:21 -0400
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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John Starta wrote:
>
> The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional
> power failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or
> their providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect
> AOL would have back-up power.
>
> http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html
Something's fishy about this.
I'm in Northern Virginia (Vienna), not 15 miles from AOL's facilities
(in Reston and Dulles). I experienced no power outage that day. So if
there was a failure, it was certainly not "major regional".
During the outage, the AIM client would successfully connect, but would
abort with a database error trying to validate passwords. Sounds more
like a servier failure to me. (Although to be fair, my first test was
less than 30 minutes before the service came back, so I may have been
seeing their reboot sequence.)
-- David
