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 jas At 07:01 PM 4/5/01 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0400, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:39:10PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
The air line reservation system Galileo had significant problems earlier.
Excerpt from Reuters: "The outage began about 8:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Wednesday and lasted until 10:55 a.m. MDT on Thursday, said Beth Tennis, vice present of enterprise networks for Quantitude, Galileo's Denver-based networking subsidiary. It affected three of the four T-1 high-speed data transmission lines supplied to Galileo by AT&T Corp., said Beth Tennis"
4 T1's were down in Denver? Stop the world, I want off. :P
You missed the bigger story about the AOL Instant Messanger outtage for a large portion of the day (which I heard lots about from all my AIM loving friends). Doubtless many thousands of network engineers were cut off from their vital lines of communication.
Today was the second multi-hour outage in the past week of AIM that i'm aware of.
- Jared