Re: It's always fun

[john heasley <heas () shrubbery net>]

> From owner-nanog () merit edu  Fri Jul 11 08:17:27 1997
>
> It's always fun when the major West coast IXP goes down--Mae-West MFS.
> Every peer from our Mae-West NASA AMES router to MFS is down, as well as
> our MFS router.  I'd suppose everyone else is seeing the same thing.  
> And the MFS NOC isn't answering the phone, after being on hold for 15 mins.
> Anyone know what is going on?  
>
> Rob
> Exodus

MFS reports a "major" outage at the Mae-west node.  they were vague about
the nature.  since only our nap fddi connection was affected, i'm guessing
it is power related.  as far as i know, no eta could be provided at the
time that our noc spoke with MFS.

-heas