MDM Trouble Report for 2002 Mar 10

Telescope: 1.3m
Observer(s): Eric Miller (Michigan)
Instrument: Echelle

Problem(s) Encountered:
Two problems:

1) Just before midnight, the connection to the external Kitt Peak
network (i.e. everything outside the MDM subnet, 140.252.83.0) 
was lost and never came back up.  Every machine (at least that I
tried) in the MDM subnet can see each other (kilauea, chichon, 
etc.) but none of them can see other KPNO machines or external
sites.

2) At about 4 am, while I was rotating the dome to the east at 
the control monitor in the dome, all power shut off (monitor,
drives, dome motion, red lights) for about 2 seconds.  The power
came back on, and I was able to continue moving the dome, and
switching the telescope power off and on worked to restart it.
The computer power wasn't disrupted, so I was able to continue
observing.  Power was also apparently lost to the dorm building
at some point, probably at that time.  I don't know if the
generator kicked in or commercial power came back immediately,
but commercial power is now working.

None of these problems interfered with observing.


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Submitted on 2002 Mar 11 [5:18:25]