[5220] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Pace)
Fri Oct 11 21:02:50 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:54:01 -0700
From: pace@smtp.amerhonda.com (Joe Pace)
To: nanog@merit.edu
> Every private reply I've gotten has basically said "nope, nobody at
> BBN posted anything to anywhere about the outage" and a few said
> "I called the NOC and found out the story".
>
> That's silly though... there's now thousands of providers out there.
> One good posting to an outage list that could be put on each little
> provider's status pages would save hundreds of calls of the big-network NOC.
>
> You'd think us network-operators would learn from these past several
> big outages and have a good, reliable, mailing list up by now, but
> I haven't heard about one. I'm reluctant to start it myself, because I
> don't have enough network paths out of here to make it useful during
> a serious multi-provider problem.
I got a trouble ticket report from BBN when the outtage occurred, but that's
probably because I'm a customer.
I am very surprised that they did not have a generator backup on their UPS
at such a critical site.
Joe
