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RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
by Rishi Singh 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Rachel, We're located at 100 Broadway and to my knowledge everyone made it out ok during the evacuation procedures. I'm making this message public in case others have family/friends around the downtown NYC area. -----Original Message----- From: Rachel Luxemburg [mailto:rslux@link-net.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:55 AM To: deeann mikula; Charles Sprickman; nanog(a)merit.edu; Avi Freedman Subject: RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect If anyone happens to know whether any of the buildings immediately surrounding the WTC have been affected I would really appreciate knowing which ones; my sister is in 140 Broadway. Thank you. Sorry for the non-operational content.

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Access to 60 Hudson
by Randy Neals 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

We have equipment in 60 Hudson (RACO) and are interested in hearing any definitive/first hand reports of the status of that facility. We have not been able to contact our colocation provider via Telephone presumably due to overload of the telephone network. Anybody have any info? We are also in 600 S federal in Chicago and the Westin building in Seattle. Any info from those locations? News from this part of the world: (appologies if anyone if offened by this part being of topic for NANOG) We are in the glide path about 5 M West of Toronto International Airport YYZ. Planes were incoming about ~every 20 minutes until about 2PM. (normal rate is every 90 - 120 seconds) No air traffic in last hour or so. According to news sources about 500 International planes were diverted to major Canadian Airports. Approximatley 25 in Toronto. Likely Vancouver and Halifax took most of the International flights. Two Planes (one identified as a Korean 747) were escorted by military jets to land in Whitehorse city in the Yukon Territory (Canada) as one was suspected of being hijacked. Reported by CBC at 15:44 PM. http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/09/11/can_travel010911 Canadian Airports are at "Ground Stop". Planes are disembarked on the tarmac away from the terminal with a fleet of Buses picking up passengers. ATIS (Arrival Channel) is advising that no departures are permitted except for military, police, and humanitarian flights by order of the minister of transport. All planes are instructed to leave their ident beacon on standby while on the tarmac. Access roads to Toronto Airport are sealed off. Randy Neals Manager, Engineering Technology and Network Development Engineering GT Group Telecom Inc. 7111 Syntex Drive, Mississauga, Ontario (416) 848-2693

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RE: unblock communications
by woody weaver 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

> Would you mind terribly not to abuse national disasters for your > rediculous little completely stupid and currently uncalled > for holy war? isnt that precisely the problem here?

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cnn.com cuts graphics
by Steve Bellovin 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

cnn.com has switch to very low graphics, in a very good response to the congestion they have to be experiencing. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb http://www.wilyhacker.com

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Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
by Tim Brown 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Thanks to all who forwarded news links. I would like to pass my condolences along to Akamai employees on NANOG. It is a terrible thing when the world experiences something like this, but it is equally terrible when an Internet legend is lost. Sincerely, Tim On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:35:38PM -0400, Wohlgemuth, Brian wrote: > Consider it confirmed....sad to say. > > http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010911/wr/cra > sh_akamai_dc_1.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Brown [mailto:timothy.brown@pobox.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:33 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect > > > > Slashdot is reporting a rumor that Akamai's founder was onboard a plane > into NYC at about the time of the crash. Can someone from Akamai confirm > or deny? > > Thanks, > Tim --

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EAS tests rescheduled
by Sean Donelan 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Several state and local coordinating committees for broadcast television and radion have rescheduled "required weekly test" and "required monthly test" activations of the Emergency Alert System. The EAS is the successor of the old Emergency Broadcast System.

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Danny Lewin on AA 11
by Lloyd Taylor 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Danny Lewin, CTO and cofounder of Akamai, was on one of the planes that hit the WTC. The press release from Akamai is at: http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010911/bs/cr…

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Network Premption Procedures
by Sean Donelan 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Although most people aren't aware of it, buried in the telecommunication tariffs are a set of network preemption procedures. In event of an federal emergency, any working telecommunication circuit can be preempted to restore an emergency circuit. In event of an federal emergency, restoration priorities are set by the government, not the carrier. Specific circuits must be restored first, before customer circuits. The carrier is supposed to alert you when they need to preempt your circuit, but inability to contact you won't slow them down. Once again, ISPs shouldn't take action before being requested. If your circuits are prempted, the carrier has a schedule of which circuits to restore first. TCG (ATT Local Service), Sprint and Verizon had equipment located in the World Trade Center towers. Most service was delivered locally to the towers, but some intra and inter city loops passed through the facilities. Carriers are reporting several hundred local loops impacted in New York City. Most inter-city and backbone circuits appear to have already been re-routed. A lot of European circuits pass through the area, but at this time, all appear to be operating or have already be re-routed. The electrical grid sustained some damage near the world trade center. Most providers in the area have 8 hours of battery or generator. A couple of providers have issued warnings there may be service disruptions if batteries are generators run down.

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re: Can we help?
by John Kristoff 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

I'd also like to volunteer my time and resources to help any organization impacted by this tragedy. Whether its configuring routers, terminating cable or simply making available a network port to park a server for a few weeks I think we can help. I think I can also provide some loaners for those in dire need (e.g. couple 5509/RSM's, 3620, 1900's, Ultra5's, etc.). I realize its no replacement for the lives lost, but if I can help make the healing process just a little bit easier... Call or email me off list if you or someone you know could use some volunteer network related help. John

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RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
by Steve Smith 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Congrats and God bless. -----Original Message----- From: M. David Leonard [mailto:mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:27 PM To: Charles Sprickman Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect More good news (for me, anyway): my son Nathan was at his desk on the 58th floor when the first plane hit and he escaped with no injuries. I don't know if he will still have a job, but at least he's safe. Info came via AIM. David Leonard ShaysNet.COM On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > Some good news... an eyewitness who was on the 81st floor of Tower 1(?) > got out (along with everyone on his floor) before the collapse. > Considering the towers were 110 stories high, that bodes well for > evacuation of the towers post-crash... > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Thomas P. Brisco wrote: > > > > > > > We're sitting here and watched the tower fall. NYC is insane, > > people (at this point, 30 blocks away) are starting to run in the > > streets. The entire island is locked down, you apparently CANNOT get > > off of Manhattan island. > > The second tower just went down. We're getting reports via > > phone from people about 10 blocks away. > > > > - Tom > >

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