[98098] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Tue Jul 24 19:48:16 2007
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:54:08 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <407645010707241456x68f4ec4ie3224082a9cd2a65@mail.gmail.com>
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Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>
> Just a heads up to anyone on list that PG&E has just sustained a large
> outage in San Francisco that has caused a few hiccups (both network,
> electrical, infrastructural, etc.) around the city.
>
> I've confirmed that both customers in 365 Main and parts of telecom 1
> have both sustained brief blackouts. No word yet form 200 Paul.
>
> Anyone in the area that could use a hand with anything, I'll probably
> be wrapping up fixes for my stuff soon, and would be glad to help
> however I can.
>
I have a question: does anyone seriously accept "oh, power trouble" as a
reason your servers went offline? Where's the generators? UPS? Testing
said combination of UPS and generators? What if it was important? I
honestly find it hard to believe anyone runs a facility like that and
people actually *pay* for it.
If you do accept this is a good reason for failure, why?
~Seth
