(resent - to list this time) On 16 Feb 2021, at 2:37 PM, John Kristoff <j...@dataplane.org <mailto:j...@dataplane.org>> wrote: > > Friends, > > I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet > operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you > have seen. > > Which examples would make up your top three?
John - I have no idea what outages were most memorable for others, but the Stanford transfer switch explosion in October 1996 resulted in a much of the Internet in the Bay Area simply not being reachable for several days. At the time there were three main power grids feeding Stanford – two from PG&E and one from Stanford’s own CoGen plant – and somehow a rat crawling into one of the two 12KVA transfer switches resulted in an the switch disppearing in an epic explosion that even took out a portion of the exterior wall of the building. The ensuing restoration involved lots of industry folks, GE power-on-wheel generating stations, anaconda-sized power cables, and all in all was quite the adventure. FYI, /John
