Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!rob From: rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) Newsgroups: news.config Subject: Re: Expect major outages due to Bay Area earthquake Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 89 04:27:54 GMT References: <4849@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <926@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <7814@asylum.SF.CA.US> <7876@asylum.SF.CA.US> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 30 In-reply-to: romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US's message of 21 Oct 89 00:38:53 GMT In article <7876@asylum.SF.CA.US> romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) writes: In article karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us writes: > As far as I can tell, Internet connectivity is non-existent. > >On the contrary, I can see ucbvax from Ohio State: > >[20] [9:26pm] giza:/n/dinosaur/0/karl> finger @ucbvax >[ucbvax.berkeley.edu] >Login Name Tty Idle Login Office Office Phone >root Mr. ucbVax h8 3d Sep 27 1989 458E <415>642-8925 >uucp UNIX-to-UNIX Copy *d0 Oct 19 14:57 Eh, it got fixed fast, yes? It was true when I wrote it. err. we (berkeley) lost internet connectivity at 2:00 pm the 17th. the prognosis was that the telco would have our barnet T1 back up by 6:00 pm. but then the quake hit at 5:04... we eventually got back on about 24 hours later. hell, our machines didn't even go down. rob -- william robertson rob@violet.berkeley.edu symbolic links are the GOTO's of filesystems