[50160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power loss in downtown manhattan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chrisy Luke)
Sat Jul 20 19:57:37 2002
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:57:03 +0100
From: Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0207201803530.26872-100000@clifden.donelan.com>; from sean@donelan.com on Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 06:11:26PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Power seems to have been restored as of about 5 minutes ago.
Chris.
Sean Donelan wrote (on Jul 20):
>
> 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.
>
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