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> > > In a previous message Neil J. McRae wrote: > > > > Make sure it isn't Telehouse though! Someone at Telehouse London pressed > > the wrong button and took out the entire power to the south side of > > the building, nearly ever ISP in the UK, and the LINX too, was knocked > > out for around 45 minutes today. > > Sorry, only UK ISPs that are careless enough to route *all* their International > connectivity thru Telehouse were "knocked out" - We, and various others ONLY > lost connectivity to those customers with a single line to our equipment > in Telehouse. > UK->UK traffic (to those other ISPs that survived) just re-routed > through Stockholm, Amsterdam, USA etc etc etc OK Richard, All ISP's where affected then, the point is Telehouse is a disaster zone and there is way too much UK [and European too] traffic passing through, the bulding. > Sorry, Telehouse has a *much* better power record than most places I know - > some of the US mae's dont even have mains backup supply. Well you are a nutcase for plugging into a MAE ;) THe point is Telehouse claim this mondo wonderful power resiliance and its just not true. FYI: I was standing in the 1st floor ops room and watched everything go off, YES THATS RIGHT! The management system that Telehouse use went off too! so they didn't have a clue where the fault was! [eggs basket one springs to mind]. Cheers, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. D O M I N O [email protected] NetBSD/sparc - 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/";>Computer!</A> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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