[50179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: effects of NYC power outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Mon Jul 22 09:11:20 2002
To: senthil ayyasamy <mplsgeek@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:07:41 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:10:34 -0400
From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <20020722130741.34462.qmail@web20809.mail.yahoo.com>, senthil ayyasa
my writes:
> BGP stability was normal on 9/11. As we know only
>the telephone network suffered more whereas internet
>remained stable. Their might have been some problems
>in the access because of the flash crowd problem.
I've now seen a lot of data on 9/11 and BGP (and other metrics) and,
while final results and interpretation will wait for the NRC report, I will
say that the data on reachability and such like varies dramatically,
depending on where measured, granularity of measurements and other issues.
Thanks!
Craig