BBN outage

Sat Oct 12 00:54:01 UTC 1996

> Every private reply I've gotten has basically said "nope, nobody at
> BBN posted anything to anywhere about the outage" and a few said
> "I called the NOC and found out the story".
> 
> That's silly though... there's now thousands of providers out there.
> One good posting to an outage list that could be put on each little
> provider's status pages would save hundreds of calls of the big-network NOC.
> 
> You'd think us network-operators would learn from these past several
> big outages and have a good, reliable, mailing list up by now, but
> I haven't heard about one. I'm reluctant to start it myself, because I
> don't have enough network paths out of here to make it useful during
> a serious multi-provider problem.

I got a trouble ticket report from BBN when the outtage occurred, but that's
probably because I'm a customer.

I am very surprised that they did not have a generator backup on their UPS 
at such a critical site.

Joe