University of Twente NOC Destroyed

Posted by michael on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @01:03AM from the debian-users-grief-stricken dept.

JanJoost writes "Around 08.00 CET today the University of Twente Network Operations Center, which amongst other things hosts a SURFnet PoP as well as security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org, caught fire. The UT, which hosted the HAL in august last year is completely unreachable and is not likely to come back up any time soon. The fire department has given up every hope on protecting the server area and is now trying to protect the surrounding buildings. More information can be found at the Telegraaf, Planet Internet and Twentsche Courant. Pictures can be found here and here. It's a shame to see a great infrastructure go down in flames like this."

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Good Luck by Brian_rts · 2002-11-20 01:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

Hope everyone made it out...
Re:Well Damn... by Fembot · 2002-11-20 01:55 · Score: 1, Redundant

I hope they had offsite backup of anything important :-)
Al Gore already took that idea... by DanEsparza · 2002-11-20 03:14 · Score: 1, Redundant

What a stunning idea. Perhaps they should call it the internet
Nah. Al Gore already took that name. Or was it the 'Information superhighway'?
:-)
Re:OK by CoolVibe · 2002-11-20 03:16 · Score: 1, Redundant

Na == Sodium
Glad to help :)