A side-note on why 25 Broadway lost power. I am told they had the fuel, but the "Local 3" union worker who was watching the gauges on the generator misread the dials, and a human error caused the generator to run bone dry. --Phil -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:27 AM To: Craig Partridge; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: effects of NYC power outage On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:05:21 -0400 Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com> wrote:
Anyone got good data comparing the effects on the Net (BGP reachability, etc) of this weekend's NYC power outage with the effects power outage
late
on September 11th.
Hello; To be honest, I did not see any BGP or other routing effects from the NYC fire (there were problems on Abilene this weekend, but they were due to a bad router update). My data are presented on http://www.multicasttech.com/status and are fairly coarse-grained, having a 6 hour update cycle. The 9/11 problems actually came starting on 9/13 and 14 when the battery / generator power started running out at 25 Broadway. My understanding is that the biggest problem was the inability to access the facility to refuel. My (multicast-centric) analysis of the 9/11 response was presented at Nanog 23 : http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/eubanks.html You should also look at the other two presentations on 9/11 and the Internet at that meeting : http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/agenda.html Regards Marshall Eubanks T.M. Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc. 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : tme@multicasttech.com http://www.multicasttech.com Test your network for multicast : http://www.multicasttech.com/mt/
I'm on a National Academy of Sciences committee looking at how the Internet fared on 9/11 and we're always in search of good comparative data.
Thanks!
Craig Partridge Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies