[5214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles R. Hoynowski)
Fri Oct 11 20:11:08 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: rob@rjl.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:14:32 PDT."
<CMM-RU.1.0.845075672.rob@solar.rjl.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:03:28 -0700
From: "Charles R. Hoynowski" <charles@etak.com>
Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com> says:
>> Most of the SF Bay Area portion of BBN Planet's network has been offline
>> since late last night. I've finally heard, via a friend who is a major
>> customer of theirs, that they are having power problems in Palo Alto.
>>
>> Now, I haven't heard a peep about this on any of the mailing lists I'm on...
>> and since knowing about BIG outages like this would make it easier for
>> me to answer my customer's questions... am I missing something?
>>
>> Is there a mailing list that I should be on? Or is this just a private
>> BBN issue that I'd need to call their ops center people about (people who
>> I'm sure are very very busy without small network operators calling them)
>>
>> -matthew kaufman
>> matthew@scruz.net
>>
>>
>
>I just spoke to their NOC and was told that a power switch that is
>supposed to be able to switch them between 3 different power utilities
>failed at 12:30 this morning (friday). They bought and installed 2
>large diesel generators today and are hoping to be back up using the
>generators within 30 minutes.
We're trying to figure out how long BBN's been down, are you talking
12:30am PDT? If so, then they been down 16 hours. I started seeing mail
failures to Stanford (a big BBN site) at 9:33am PDT and first got email
about the problem from another ISP at around 11am.
--charles
charles@etak.com
