Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com> says:
Most of the SF Bay Area portion of BBN Planet's network has been offline since late last night. I've finally heard, via a friend who is a major customer of theirs, that they are having power problems in Palo Alto.
Now, I haven't heard a peep about this on any of the mailing lists I'm on... and since knowing about BIG outages like this would make it easier for me to answer my customer's questions... am I missing something?
Is there a mailing list that I should be on? Or is this just a private BBN issue that I'd need to call their ops center people about (people who I'm sure are very very busy without small network operators calling them)
-matthew kaufman matthew@scruz.net
I just spoke to their NOC and was told that a power switch that is supposed to be able to switch them between 3 different power utilities failed at 12:30 this morning (friday). They bought and installed 2 large diesel generators today and are hoping to be back up using the generators within 30 minutes.
We're trying to figure out how long BBN's been down, are you talking 12:30am PDT? If so, then they been down 16 hours. I started seeing mail failures to Stanford (a big BBN site) at 9:33am PDT and first got email about the problem from another ISP at around 11am. --charles charles@etak.com