NSF.gov Unavailable

2010-10-27 Thread Ernie Rubi 
Um, down for everyone reports it as down for everyone.

Any news as to what may be causing it?

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Florida International Univ, Miami
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RE: NSF.gov Unavailable

2010-10-27 Thread Samuel Petreski 
I think they had a fire in the building.

--Samuel

--
Samuel Petreski
Sr. Security Analyst
Georgetown University


-Original Message-
From: Ernie Rubi [mailto:erne...@cs.fiu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:46 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: NSF.gov Unavailable

Um, down for everyone reports it as down for everyone.

Any news as to what may be causing it?

Ernesto M. Rubi
Sr. Network Engineer
AMPATH/CIARA
Florida International Univ, Miami
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Re: NSF.gov Unavailable

2010-10-27 Thread David Andersen 
http://www.arlnow.com/2010/10/27/nsf-building-evacuated-in-ballston-after-apparent-lightning-strike/

lightning strike - electrical fire

  -Dave

On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Samuel Petreski wrote:

 I think they had a fire in the building.
 
 --Samuel
 
 --
 Samuel Petreski
 Sr. Security Analyst
 Georgetown University
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Ernie Rubi [mailto:erne...@cs.fiu.edu] 
 Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:46 PM
 To: nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: NSF.gov Unavailable
 
 Um, down for everyone reports it as down for everyone.
 
 Any news as to what may be causing it?
 
 Ernesto M. Rubi
 Sr. Network Engineer
 AMPATH/CIARA
 Florida International Univ, Miami
 Reply-to: erne...@cs.fiu.edu
 Cell: 786-282-6783

RE: NSF.gov Unavailable

2010-10-27 Thread Nathan Eisenberg 
 http://www.arlnow.com/2010/10/27/nsf-building-evacuated-in-ballston-
 after-apparent-lightning-strike/
 
 lightning strike - electrical fire
 
   -Dave

At the science foundation.  Nature has a sense of irony.

Re: NSF.gov Unavailable

2010-10-27 Thread Paul WALL 
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Nathan Eisenberg
nat...@atlasnetworks.us wrote:
 http://www.arlnow.com/2010/10/27/nsf-building-evacuated-in-ballston-
 after-apparent-lightning-strike/

 lightning strike - electrical fire

 At the science foundation.  Nature has a sense of irony.

The real irony is that the folks who brought you the NSFnet apparently
didn't get the memo vis-a-vis geographic diversity in one's secondary
nameservers (rfc 2182 et al).  Always good for a few yuks when
ill-mannered MTAs start getting unhappy and dropping mail on the floor
rather than queueing because they can't resolve the name rather than
can't can't connect to the destination (which just about everyone
handles fairly well).

nsf.gov.86400   IN  NS  swirl.nsf.gov.
nsf.gov.86400   IN  NS  TWISTER.nsf.gov.
nsf.gov.86400   IN  NS  WHIRL.nsf.gov.
;; Received 139 bytes from 66.207.175.172#53(f.usadotgov.net) in 70 ms

dig: couldn't get address for 'WHIRL.nsf.gov': not found
%

This happened to the University of Eastern Kentucky a couple of years
back during the floods there, and I'm sure it happens to other
lower-profile sites on a daily basis.  I think there is a lesson in
here for the community.

Drive Slow,
Paul

Re: NSF.gov Unavailable

2010-10-27 Thread Uri Joskovitch 


Ernie Rubi erne...@cs.fiu.edu ðëúá òì éãé:

Um, down for everyone reports it as down for everyone.

Any news as to what may be causing it?

Ernesto M. Rubi
Sr. Network Engineer
AMPATH/CIARA
Florida International Univ, Miami
Reply-to: erne...@cs.fiu.edu
Cell: 786-282-6783