[aklug] Re: Local e-mail accounts for an emergency?

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Scott A. Johnson
<scott.a.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I could see this emergency plan being of greater need before we got
> route diversity to the lower 48, but now there's what - at least five
> fiber lines running to the lower 48? ACS and GCI both have two, and
> Alascom has at least one or two. We'd have to have multiple lines cut
> at the same time, AND the carrier's business continuity routes also
> fail (i.e. satellite or a competitor's cable). Frankly if that
> happens even if we had a server parked in Alaska not everyone on the
> LUG would potentially not be able to reach the mail server due to the
> same cut cables.
>
> Now, this does happen. I think it was in 2006 that two cables got cut
> at the same time (I think it was the AK Fiber Star now ACS' cable, but
> I could be wrong) once along the railroad and the other down in the
> Copper Center area that caused route diversity to fail. But even then
> the carrier's BCP kicked in and they turned on some peering with their
> competition or some satellite circuits or something.
>
> Bottom line, great idea, could be very useful, but lots of work to get
> it up and running and significant hurdles to overcome for what is a
> low probability event.

I agree, route diversity is the key. I'm in the unenviable position,
however, of living in what is, for practical purposes, a one-ISP area.
I do maintain multiple uplinks to said ISP, and an empty satellite
dish for=85 emergencies. Haven't had to use it though, not since that
double fiber cut.

Which brings us back to the previous on-list discussions of ISP peering.

jermudgeon
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Wed Feb 23 21:13:40 2011