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CNN reports hate emails...
by Terence 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

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Alpha paging systems: any faults thus far?
by John Todd 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

At least here on the East Coast (DC Metro region) there has been significant difficulty with cell phone call completion during the last 14 hours or so; this has been reported by various sources, and I won't go into the reasons or solutions to that problem; see previous posts today for various interpretations. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced issues with their alpha paging systems, which now for a large percentage of users ride along the same systems as the voice traffic (i.e.: the alpha paging is built into the cell phone carrier and handset.) It's also quite possible that even the normal alpha paging systems that are non-cellphone based have experienced higher than normal traffic, leading to difficulties with completions or significant delays - I'm speculating here. I'm sure that the NYC region has seen quite a jump in two-way alpha paging activity today, as an example. Brief experimentation showed that Verizon's email-to-cellphone service for handsets in the MD/DC area is functional (sample size=1) but it perhaps would be reasonable for others to chime in as to how their service is performing, as many of us rely upon this system for notifications. If we can establish if there are any faults in this system it will perhaps save some of us more difficulty in the next day or so. In the best case, it will create a number of test pages going through the system so that you at least can say with some certainty that it works/doesn't work, and if the latter you'll be compelled to stick close to a nice warm screen this fine spring night, staring at little green dots, waiting for them to become little red dots. Even a number of you who have NOC staffs 24x7 still keep something tied to an electronic paging system of some sort. Good for you if you don't; don't clutter the list with smug replies. JT

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power issues for manhattan/telco-hotels
by Jim Mercer 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

anyone have any idea if power is being restored, or if the facilites running through 60 hudson, 25 broadway, etc al are at the mercy of existing diesel supplies? like they are gonna let a diesel tanker just pull into town to top everyone up. -- [ Jim Mercer jim(a)reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Now with more and longer words for your reading enjoyment. ]

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Additional Power Outages in Lower Manhattan
by Sean Donelan 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

ConEdision released this statement this evening: > Due to the fire at 7 World Trade Center, electric power was lost to > another portion of lower Manhattan. The area is bordered by Dover Street > on the north, the East River to the east, William Street to the west > and Wall Street to the south. > Earlier, electric power in lower Manhattan was lost to an area bordered > by Thomas Street to the north, Broadway on the east, the Hudson River > on the west down to the southern tip of Manhattan. > The company is assessing the damage and exploring service restoration > options. Con Edison is in close contact with city officials. There are several telco hotels near and within those bounderies, but I don't have specific information about individual buildings.

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RE: World Trade Center attack
by Greg Pendergrass 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

I would if they were killed in front of my face when I was watching. It's nice to know you care, though. -----Original Message----- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@netaktiv.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:28 AM To: Greg Pendergrass Cc: 'Nanog@Merit. Edu' Subject: Re: World Trade Center attack On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:14:41AM -0400, Greg Pendergrass <greg(a)band-x.com> wrote a message of 9 lines which said: > Both towers of the World Trade Center are burning after planes flew into > them in an apparent suicide attack. Many people are certainly dead. I don't > give a damn what network disruption this causes, but please say a prayer for > those killed. Will you send a message to that mailing list each time innocent people are killed in Palestine, Chechenia, Macedonia, Afghanistan, etc?

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Losses.
by Micah McNelly 12 Sep '01

12 Sep '01

I want to give an extreme note of sympathy to those who have losses from this immensely terrible outbreak in terror. Any of you that sat in front of a television today must as feel as sick as I do, and beg you not to turn onto am radio while driving. An sick and disgusting act indeed. My apologies and love to those at akamai and anyone else who has lost someone close to you or your organization. /micah

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Re: World Trade Center attack
by Marshall Eubanks 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

> >On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:46:24AM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >> >> The USA is currently in state Delta, highest alertness state as if War has >> been declared. (Based on report on Fox News in the last 5 minutes) > ThreatCon Delta (how its called in the Navy at least) means that your base is either under attack, or an attack is likely. This has nothing directly to do with DEFCON's - which relate to readiness for war, not local attack. I heard that all bases in the DC area are in ThreatCon Delta. Regards Marshall Eubanks >Correct. FP (Force Protection) Condition Delta is the highest alert. >Though I've heard it's only the US East coast posts that are at Delta; >I've had reports that most overseas bases are at Charlie. FPCon is a >localized alert state and will vary by location. > >DEFCON 2 has been reached, I believe. > >DEFCON 1 does not necessarily equate automatically to war, however. It >is merely the maximum level of force readiness. > >-- >Mark C. Langston >mark(a)bitshift.org >Systems & Network Admin >http://www.bitshift.org > > Marshall Eubanks tme(a)21rst-century.com

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RE: OT: Give Blood
by Francis, Bodie 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

When are you going Sean, I'll meet you there with some of our own. -----Original Message----- From: Me To: Jason Legate Cc: nanog(a)nanog.org Sent: 9/11/2001 6:48 PM Subject: Re: OT: Give Blood Here in Denver most of the banks are asking that people wait until tomorrow, as there are already 5 hour lines to give blood. -- -sean Spoon! On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jason Legate wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:13:55 -0700 > From: Jason Legate <jlegate(a)evine.com> > To: nanog(a)nanog.org > Subject: OT: Give Blood > > This is a call to every able bodied person out there, please go out and give > blood as soon as you can, to help all those injured people on the east coast. > > Red Cross - 1-888-BLOOD-88, www.redcross.org > > I've also heard that 1-800-GIVE-LIFE reaches them. > > -j > >

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OT: Give Blood
by Jason Legate 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

This is a call to every able bodied person out there, please go out and give blood as soon as you can, to help all those injured people on the east coast. Red Cross - 1-888-BLOOD-88, www.redcross.org I've also heard that 1-800-GIVE-LIFE reaches them. -j -- Jason Legate Sr. Net/Sys Admin, eVine, Inc. work- jlegate(a)evine.com | home- jlegate(a)alienchick.com Key Fingerprint: 4FB4 2228 DE63 3BBA 7B72 40DD 13D5 2547 821D 2909

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NYC city net 161.185.0.0 off net
by Sean Donelan 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

New York City's primary network 161.185.0.0/16 including the www.nyc.gov web site is off the net this evening. It was up all day, and providing public information about emergency response, shelters and transit status. I've tried from two different network providers. Applied Theory, NYC's primary name server, is up.

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