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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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