TO:  All GCN Sites
RE:  Recent outage fixed
DT:  06 Nov 99

The GCN system has been down since ~5pm EST on Friday.  Some telephone
workers managed to break one of the Internet connections for one
of the GCN computers.  I logged a trouble call 6:30pm Friday,
but it seems the 24/7 isn't what is used to be.  Saturday I rerouted
the broken connection through a mini-hub doubling up one of the remaining
connections that still worked.  Things seem to be functioning properly now
(socket connections, imalives, emails, pages, test_alerts, etc) as of 1pm.
So we lost 20 hours.  My apologies for the loss of service.

Scott


Scott Barthelmy                      NASA-GSFC, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD   20771
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