This was not a building wide problem; apparently it did
serve to find
the failed UPSes in a few places. The building management
does these
tests several times a year, and at least to the one colo
where we had
visibility to the building electrical service, we saw the
same outages
we always see during such a test.
It is also worth noting, that I only saw one of about 60 BGP
sessions
across the Seattle-IX (which is in the building) reset at
the time of
the work.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanogmerit.edu] On Behalf Of
Rick Kunkel
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 11:26 PM
To: chuck goolsbee
Cc: nanogmerit.edu
Subject: Re: Westin Seattle Outage?
We too had probs. I saw only two outages, one around 8PM
PDT and one
around 9:45PM PDT. I called during the first one, and the
people I
talked
to were obviously in a state, and I had trouble hearing
anyone, as they
were in an extremely loud part of the data center or
something. From
what
I could understand through the noise of some really loud
fans or a
generator, there was a power test of some kind, and a
generator flaked
or
something. I've requested more detailed info, but have yet
to receive
it.
>From what I understand, it affected more than just one
provider.
--Rick Kunkel
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, chuck goolsbee wrote:
>
> >We just saw one of our gig-e circuits to the Westin
bounce three
> >times and another just go flatline in the past
hour.
>
> Answering my own question I know, but the OnFiber/Qwest
guys I spoke
> to informed me that they heard the Westin had some sort
of backup
> power scheduled maintenance go wrong. That was the 3
bouncer. I still
> wouldn't mind independent verification of that.
>
>
> The flatliner was XO, and it seems that it may not even
touch the
> Westin (instead goes to 1000 Denny.) I still don't know
what happened
> there. It did come back after 86 minutes of eerie
silence. Anyone
> else with XO circuits see anything odd tonight?
>
>
>
> --chuck
>
> Note to XO NOC: Your hold music is *awful* and on a way
too short
> loop. It is bad enough when it is bad music, but to
hear it over and
> over and over... for well over an hour, is customer
torture.
>
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