[50182] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: effects of NYC power outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Rosenthal)
Mon Jul 22 11:51:16 2002
Reply-To: <pr@isprime.com>
From: "Phil Rosenthal" <pr@isprime.com>
To: "'Marshall Eubanks'" <tme@multicasttech.com>,
"'Craig Partridge'" <craig@aland.bbn.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:50:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <web-1397576@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
A side-note on why 25 Broadway lost power.
I am told they had the fuel, but the "Local 3" union worker who was
watching the gauges on the generator misread the dials, and a human
error caused the generator to run bone dry.
--Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Marshall Eubanks
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:27 AM
To: Craig Partridge; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: effects of NYC power outage
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:05:21 -0400
Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com> wrote:
>
>
> Anyone got good data comparing the effects on the Net (BGP
> reachability,
> etc) of this weekend's NYC power outage with the effects power outage
late
> on September 11th.
>
Hello;
To be honest, I did not see any BGP or other routing effects from the
NYC fire (there were problems on Abilene this weekend, but they were due
to a bad router update). My data are presented on
http://www.multicasttech.com/status
and are fairly coarse-grained, having a 6 hour update cycle.
The 9/11 problems actually came starting on 9/13 and 14 when the battery
/ generator power started running out at 25 Broadway. My understanding
is that the biggest problem was the inability to access the facility to
refuel.
My (multicast-centric) analysis of the 9/11 response was presented at
Nanog 23 :
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/eubanks.html
You should also look at the other two presentations on 9/11 and the
Internet at that meeting :
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/agenda.html
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
T.M. Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc.
10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609
e-mail : tme@multicasttech.com
http://www.multicasttech.com
Test your network for multicast :
http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/
> I'm on a National Academy of Sciences committee looking at how the
> Internet fared on 9/11 and we're always in search of good comparative
> data.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Craig Partridge
> Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies
