[5217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ravi Puvvala)
Fri Oct 11 20:25:07 1996
To: "Charles R. Hoynowski" <charles@etak.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, rob@rjl.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:03:28 PDT."
<199610120003.RAA02236@ nin>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:20:13 -0700
From: Ravi Puvvala <ravi@ipsilon.com>
BBNPlanet's back operational now.
Ravi
>
> 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
>
