Friday 3rd June 2005
Clunk
So, another power cut across South Ken, but this time I’m in work. I found out about it by one of my colleagues coming into the machine room, and asking if I was playing with the switches. He said he thought our link to South Ken was down, which would have been D-Day for us - we have a four core fibre running for 8km through London streets, and no backup or alternative to ward off the enivitable JCB / fibre combo.
But no, pinging google worked, so it looked like the machine room was out. Pinging a machine in Civil showed that it was off-net too, and a phone call from our Faculty IT manager let us know that it was a widespread powercut.
Nice way to round off a Friday - widespread chaos. Pub anyone?
I’ve just restarted a huge number of servers. Go me.
Comment by Sam — 3/6/2005 @ 5:29 pm
Apparently it was on the news… A substation near Leciester Square or something. Oops.
Comment by Andy — 3/6/2005 @ 7:49 pm