On Friday, 15 August 2003, at 05:02AM, barry(a)unix.co.nz wrote:
May be related to US power outage, 50 000 000 people without power. Hotmail wont load neighther.
That power outage knocked out bits of the North Eastern US and most of South-Western Ontario (including my house -- still no power here, just laptops and cellphones). To the best of my knowledge most Microsoft-branded services are served out of Redmond, and Hotmail is in the Bay Area somewhere (used to be in an MFN/AboveNet facility in San Jose, but I seem to remember they moved a while ago). Most large exchange facilities in New York seem to have survived on battery and diesel power, and I don't believe the outage stretched as far as Virginia (where it might have stood a fighting chance of impacting some high concentrations of network operators). So probably not related to the power outage. Joe