rice.edu down
Wow. Rice’s Internet connection just dropped.
[dsandler.org]$ traceroute rice.edu
traceroute to bootstrap.feedtree.net (128.42.6.47), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 gw-66-33-192-1.dreamhost.com (66.33.192.1) 1 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 gw-L3.dreamhost.com (4.78.192.65) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
3 ae-1-56.bbr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.161) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
4 so-0-2-0.mp1.Houston1.Level3.net (209.247.11.169) 36 ms so-0-1-0.mp2.Houston1.Level3.net (209.247.11.166) 40 ms so-0-2-0.mp1.Houston1.Level3.net (209.247.11.169) 40 ms
5 so-8-0.hsa2.Houston1.Level3.net (4.68.112.150) 40 ms 40 ms so-11-0.hsa2.Houston1.Level3.net (4.68.96.54) 40 ms
6 * * unknown.Level3.net (63.214.240.34) 41 ms
7 * * *
8 * * *
(It’s probably a total coincidence, but mere moments before Rice went away, we had a little power transient here at the apartment. No inclement weather in the area, either. Spooky!)
Update: It was power-related.
Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on cs.rice.edu Thu Jul 21 08:53:34...The /var/mail partition of cs.rice.edu went offline last night due to a power surge. It is currently being reconstructed.
I will update as things change.
-Michael