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We'll I got that information from the East Coast NOC. I suspect that the power failed at 12:30am PDT, but I believe they ran off battery backup for sometime before going down. There are BBN/Barrnet people on this list that could probably provide more accurate information. > > > Rob Liebschutz <[email protected]> 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 > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > > > >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 > [email protected] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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