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.
Although I've found AT&T has the highest reliability of all the carriers I've used. Redundant links from the same carrier frequently have a
Personally I've found AT&T to be a packet motel, packets go in but they don't come out... To each their own... -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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 -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jared Mauch wrote:
Today was the second multi-hour outage in the past week of AIM that i'm aware of.
Quick everyone install MSN for redundancy. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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
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
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