North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Carrier reliability and diversity
John Starta wrote: > > The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional > power failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or > their providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect > AOL would have back-up power. > > http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html Something's fishy about this. I'm in Northern Virginia (Vienna), not 15 miles from AOL's facilities (in Reston and Dulles). I experienced no power outage that day. So if there was a failure, it was certainly not "major regional". During the outage, the AIM client would successfully connect, but would abort with a database error trying to validate passwords. Sounds more like a servier failure to me. (Although to be fair, my first test was less than 30 minutes before the service came back, so I may have been seeing their reboot sequence.) -- David
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