September 2012 – Netnorth Limited

Generator Maintenance

By Dan A | September 28, 2012 - 5:32 pm |September 28, 2012 Maintenance

Yesterday’s routine generator maintenance went fine, followed by a brief on-load generator test.

Generator test

By netnorth | September 17, 2012 - 6:52 pm |September 17, 2012 Maintenance

Today’s generator test was successful. We completed a 20 minute off-load generator test this morning with no faults. Our next sheduled off-load generator test is Monday 24th September 2012. Our next scheduled on-load full generator test is Monday 1st October 2012.

www10 update

By netnorth | September 13, 2012 - 5:08 pm |September 13, 2012 Faults

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The server, www10, is restored on temporary hardware.

Virgin media update

By netnorth | September 13, 2012 - 5:07 pm |September 13, 2012 Faults, Network

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The virgin media circuit was restored around 3:30pm after a 2 hour outage. Traffic has stabalised between the circuits. We are awaiting a further detailed explanation from virgin media.

IPv6 Update

By netnorth | September 13, 2012 - 3:39 pm |September 13, 2012 Network

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Today we saw the number of active IPv6 routes on the internet hit 10,000. Each route is (more or less) one ISP on the internet. This shows the growth of providers taking up the next generation protocol. As you may be aware, the availability of IPv4 (current) IP addresses is… Continue reading →

RFO for Level3 Transit outage (12/Sep/2012)

By netnorth | September 13, 2012 - 3:33 pm |September 13, 2012 Faults, Network

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We have received the official reason for outage from Level3 Communications for the brief 5 minute outage on our Level3 IP connectivity yesterday (12th September 2012) shortly after midnight. The outage was caused by routine maintenance by Level3 who had failed to notify us in advance. This has been resolved… Continue reading →

Capacity upgrade

By netnorth | September 13, 2012 - 3:17 pm |September 13, 2012 Network

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We are currently upgrading the capacity on our secondary IP transit connection from Cogent Communications. This circuit is being increased to 1000mbps. The new fibre optic interlink has been installed, the configuration will be complete by the end of September 2012. This link provides both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity to… Continue reading →

Server outage

By netnorth | September 13, 2012 - 3:14 pm |September 13, 2012 Faults

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One of our web servers (www10) is currently offline due to a hardware failure. The event started around noon. We are currently restoring the data to a new piece of hardware, ETA just over 1 hour.

Circuit failure

By netnorth | September 13, 2012 - 3:11 pm |September 13, 2012 Faults

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Our monitoring systems detected a circuit failure between Bolton 1 and Manchester 2 locations, supplied by Virgin Media Business. A ticket has been lodged with the supplier for them to investigate a potential fibre fault. All traffic was automatically re-routed via our alternate path with Cable&Wireless in the meantime.

Monthly Archives: September 2012

Generator Maintenance

Generator test

www10 update

Virgin media update

IPv6 Update

RFO for Level3 Transit outage (12/Sep/2012)

Capacity upgrade

Server outage

Circuit failure

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