20 Jul
2002
20 Jul
'02
6:11 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Chrisy Luke wrote:
Martin Hannigan wrote (on Jul 20):
Correct me if I'm wrong, but... not if you have a generator.
Much/most of 60 Hudson doesn't have this luxury, however.
But everyone knows this and builds their network around the fact, right?
The ConEd East River power outage had a short term impact on the world-wide Internet. It created a nice route flap, but things returned to "normal" (as normal as the Internet gets) quickly. Things will get more interesting when batteries starting running out in 8-12 hours.