[5368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Building Evacuation [Re: BBN outage]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Wed Oct 16 17:26:08 1996
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:25:01 -0700
To: curtis@ans.net
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 10:39 AM 10/16/96 -0400, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>
>We have a backup NOC 1,200 miles away. All the tools are set up and
>kept running in two places and at least once a year Ann Arbor
>intentionally hands off NOC duties to Elmsford. The people issue is
>the main problem, with Elmsford not being as familiar with day to day
>NOC operations. Both NOCs are connected to two POPs in different
>states with alegedly diverse circuits. Neither NOC has generators but
>the last time the UPS ran out we had NOC service cut over in time.
>This is also why we have DNS servers in different states (and kerberos
>slave servers and other critical services).
>
>I don't think a cell phone and a laptop would cut it.
>
>Curtis
>
>
Curtis;
Nobody does it better. --Kent
