The following email from IST provides information concerning the extensive
outage of network services on campus Sunday evening between about 7:00 and
9:30 PM.

Should you experience any continuing problems with computing services
please contact the information desk in the Computer Center, or helpdesk
at http://helpdesk.haas.berkeley.edu, phone 510/642-0434.

Thank you,

Haas Computing Services

>To: ucb-net-announce@uclink4.berkeley.edu
>Organization: Communication & Network Services
>Subject: [UCB-NET-ANNOUNCE] Electrical Outage, Evans Hall, 10/15/2000
>
>hi,
>
>at ~6:45PM PDT this evening, Sunday 10/15/2000, Evans Hall lost all
>electrical power.  PPCS was dispatched and determined the breaker on the
>12KV building feed had been tripped.  Power was restored at ~9:35PM;
>but as yet PPCS has not identified the cause of the outage and will
>continue their investigation tomorrow.
>
>the electrical outage caused a disruption in campus Internet/I2/calren2
>network connectivity as well as connectivity to hosts and resources
>within the Evans data center.  external network connectivity has since
>been restored and we understand that the data center is also in the
>process of bringing hosts affected by the outage back into service.
>the outage also disrupted Internet/I2/calren2 connectivity from UCDavis as
>their primary path transits equipment in Evans affected by the outage.
>
>...
>
>john hess
>ist-cns-oir, nocman
>jhess@uclink.berkeley.edu