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Mar 28, 2018 12:39AM PDT

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Interesting timing
Mar 28, 2018 1:30AM PDT

I believe it was that morning that I lost my connection due to some DNS server issue. I'm in Ohio but my ISP is in Atlanta. When I couldn't ping either of the server addresses, I switched to the Google DNS numbers and found that others had reported problems with the servers in Atlanta. A few hours later, those servers were back on. I could wonder if this wasn't something deliberate on their part. The Atlanta airport had a power outage in December during a day in which we were flying back home from New Orleans. Atlanta is a huge hub and affects the air traffic in a large part of the US. There was a lot of scrambling that day in other airports than Hartsfield.

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Atlanta is now bigger than Chicago I think.
Mar 28, 2018 5:02AM PDT

The big problem is that it seemed deliberate and wasn't prevented.

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Another one.
Mar 28, 2018 4:55PM PDT

"Hackers disrupt Baltimore's emergency call system; Atlanta still affected"
Headline on a current Reuters story. We might snicker at a hotel full of middle managers, unable to check their mail, but 911 is life and death.
Posted first on the wrong thread.

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I continue to be amazed
Mar 28, 2018 5:43PM PDT

At the lack of disaster plans. It appears what we were taught decades ago has been dismissed as old and doesn't apply today.

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Yup
Mar 28, 2018 8:45PM PDT

I suppose I can understand some home user not having install media or backups.

When some critical network goes down and there is no quick way back because the network admin never developed such a thing or management would not allocate the funds to develop such a thing seems a little odd to me.

We always had redundant hardware quickly switchable, real time backups quickly reloadable, an ups system with a generator backup, a disaster recovery site we could move to if needed.

This was all part of the cost of doing business.

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Your points are very well taken.
Mar 29, 2018 6:41AM PDT

It's as if all the people who are aware of the need to prepare are doing so with two-computer-one-printer home networks, while the IT guys who hold our lives and [more important] our travel plans in their hands don't even subscribe to cnet.
Too bad no one has come up with a better system of government ... that people would pay attention to.

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Atlanta airport, 911 system in a city with one of
Mar 29, 2018 6:44AM PDT

the highest murder rates.
Stand by for power grid fail.