[50159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power loss in downtown manhattan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Jul 20 18:11:58 2002
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 18:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020720220925.A45765@flix.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Chrisy Luke wrote:
> Martin Hannigan wrote (on Jul 20):
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but... not if you have a generator.
>
> Much/most of 60 Hudson doesn't have this luxury, however.
>
> But everyone knows this and builds their network around the fact,
> right?
The ConEd East River power outage had a short term impact on the
world-wide Internet. It created a nice route flap, but things returned
to "normal" (as normal as the Internet gets) quickly. Things will get
more interesting when batteries starting running out in 8-12 hours.
