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Fox News is reporting that there is an operation underway to refill
chillers at the Bell South building down the street to keep phone service
available to much of the southeast United States. That is apparently where
all the firetrucks are going to in the area, in case you were wondering.
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It is interesting to note that it is possible to bring in diesel and water
to resupply BellSouth yet it is impossible to bring in water and food for
the residents, not to mention a fleet of small boats that could have
prevented thousands from dying trapped inside their attics.
If you have a datacenter in a location that might be flooded by rivers or
storm surges, do you have inflatable rafts among your emergency supplies?
1) potable water is probably somewhat different from the water used in
chillers or fire trucks
2) phone service is, IMHO, one helpful pre-requisite to providing
emergency care and disaster relief
3) the pictures I've been seeing have been full of boats, many of them
thrown up on land a few hundred feet from their berths
Not saying that the utter failure of DHS as an organization isn't on
evidence here. Just saying that it's one thing to feed and water a plant
and quite another to feed and water a human being, let alone tens of
thousands of them.
because root server status is one measure of internet
infrastructure status and stability.
yes it is... and having hundreds/thousands of
folks checking has its own set of issues.
I note that Peter was kind enough to show that
all the root servers he was able to reach - AGREED -
on the serial number they were using.
why do you want to imply that caring that a root
server does not respond is inappropriate?
does not respond from where? after all,
one does not have to reach -all- the root servers.
Getting to one is sufficent.
that said, Peter has his own "root-servers" and so
my question to him was why he should care about other
folks root servers.
Many say there is only one root but they forget to mention which one.
All root-servers try to keep in sync somehow.
Right now root-servers.net is not in sync with its zone file.
If the reason should be a natural desaster of any kind then
Public-Root would be obliged to offer publishing the zone file,
without asking any undue questions and without making any undue
statements.
Everything my be discussed on a private channel.
I also noticed there is a major difference between the old and
the new zone file. Could this be the reason why there was no
update on the servers?
I tried to load the root-zone file on my personal root-server and
did not live through any problems but right now my server is IPv4
only.
To spare search and debug, here is the diff:
(please forgive the long list)
> -----snip-----
> Fox News is reporting that there is an operation underway to refill
> chillers at the Bell South building down the street to keep phone service
> available to much of the southeast United States. That is apparently where
> all the firetrucks are going to in the area, in case you were wondering.
> -----snip-----
>
> It is interesting to note that it is possible to bring in diesel and water
> to resupply BellSouth yet it is impossible to bring in water and food for
> the residents, not to mention a fleet of small boats that could have
> prevented thousands from dying trapped inside their attics.
1) potable water is probably somewhat different from the water used in
chillers or fire trucks
2) phone service is, IMHO, one helpful pre-requisite to providing
emergency care and disaster relief
Last year after Ivan phone service played no roll in emergency care or
disaster relief. Ham Radio operators, myself included, were stationed
at each shelter, the Red Cross and Salvation Army command centers, the
county EOC, hospitals, and some assigned to shadow important people such
as the mayor whereever they went. Every agency participating had a
presence at the county EOC. When an ambulance was needed at a shelter,
it was called for via ham radio, an operator at the EOC passed the message
to the ambulance dispatcher in the same room, they called the ambulance
out.
Those in their home and not in a shelter had no way to call for help but
the city and county themselves did not rely on phone service for
anything. This is why the federal government gives so much valuable
radio spectrum to Ham Radio, more then any other service, the principal
purpose of Ham Radio is to provide emergency communications in times of
need.
3) the pictures I've been seeing have been full of boats, many of them
thrown up on land a few hundred feet from their berths
Not saying that the utter failure of DHS as an organization isn't on
evidence here. Just saying that it's one thing to feed and water a plant
and quite another to feed and water a human being, let alone tens of
thousands of them.
