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Re: Building Evacuation [Re: BBN outage]

  • From: Kent W. England
  • Date: Wed Oct 16 17:44:26 1996 
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

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