[DCN-TechOps] Re: 200303061710

[Steve McMahon]

Does an outage with this wide an effect deserve a notice to dcn-announce?

John M. Crowell wrote:
> Reported by: John Crowell
> 
> SBC connection to InterNet down due to damaged fiber-optic cable.
> 
> Connectivity lost from 13:26 to 16:36.
> 
> I probably should have killed sendmail when the outgoing message
> queue started to pile up.
> 
> As it was, once the InterNet connection was back up, wheel went
> essentially catatonic at about 16:40 except for outgoing mail and the
> web server.  All dialup services and telnet connections were slowed to
> the point of timing out.
> 
> Rebooted wheel at 17:10.  There was no damage to file systems, and
> no queued e-mail was lost.
> 
> 	- JMC
> 
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