BBN outage

Sat Oct 12 00:20:13 UTC 1996

BBNPlanet's back operational now.
Ravi

> 
> Rob Liebschutz <rob at rjl.com> 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
> >>  matthew at scruz.net
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >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
> charles at etak.com
> 