Pull up chair and let me tell you tail of IT misery and woe.
This the story of the time and MCI data center went down.
During a routine inspections of their sprinkler systems they use a long pole to inspect them and see if the senor worked. Now some cheeped out and did not provide an cover the EPO button and you can guess what happened.
No biggie just turn the power back on. Only if it was that easy.
See kids this is were danger (side kick ) housed their servers. To make things worse this was an enhanced data center meaning the did voice and data.
Just when you think it could not get worse. This is were ATT and MCI did physical peering and was marked off line by a DNS update.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
