[Gllug] Geographcial server failover

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 28 Jan, Nix wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Richard Cottrill complained:

> 
> > <rants>
> > I would be shocked if BT *hadn't* had serious interruptions to service,
> > ever; my money's on recently.
> 
> What, whole cities cut off? With the penalties they have to pay if 999
> calls don't work? (What is it, one month's line rental per cut off day
> or something like that?)
> 
   There was at least one occasion, although I could not remember exactly
when and where, (perhaps about 10 years ago in the midlands?) when there was
a major fire in the BT exchange ducts which did just that.


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Chris Bell

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