John Starta wrote:
The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional power failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or their providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect AOL would have back-up power.
http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html
Something's fishy about this. I'm in Northern Virginia (Vienna), not 15 miles from AOL's facilities (in Reston and Dulles). I experienced no power outage that day. So if there was a failure, it was certainly not "major regional". During the outage, the AIM client would successfully connect, but would abort with a database error trying to validate passwords. Sounds more like a servier failure to me. (Although to be fair, my first test was less than 30 minutes before the service came back, so I may have been seeing their reboot sequence.) -- David