[HN Gopher] Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in th... ___________________________________________________________________ Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 Author : daneel_w Score : 19 points Date : 2022-12-28 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (mastodon.laurenweinstein.org) (TXT) w3m dump (mastodon.laurenweinstein.org) | walrus01 wrote: | These days most anything that would serve a role as a core router | at a mid to large sized ASN will be powered from a huge battery | bank and -48VDC rectifier system. You can easily have 400-800Gbps | of traffic going through one box. | danielodievich wrote: | Once upon a time when I was really really green we had this | little lab datacenter, just a room full of machines, and the lab | manager guy, crazy dude that I was a bit afraid of, handed me his | pager for the weekend, I guess he had to be gone. I didn't really | get this whole on-call thing back then, and so I shoved it into | backpack and forgot about it. Well, there was a windstorm, so | Sunday evening I check it, and there is a sequence of 24 messages | from the UPS "power lost, shutting down server X#", with a gap of | a few hours, then 23 messages from UPS "power reappeared, booting | up server X#". As I said, I didn't really get this whole on-call | thing so I ignored it until Monday when I manually booted server | X24. Nobody noticed. Glad it wasn't that important... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-28 23:00 UTC)