At 11:15am, Bolton suffered a large power cut which caused a momentary loss of grid power to our DC. This was handled by our UPS systems as expected and was brief enough to not require backup generation. Electricity northwest (ENWL) are en-route to the area to investigate so a further… Continue reading
We have gracefully shutdown our LINX LON1 and LON2 LAN peering while our LINX Connexions provider performs some maintenance. All traffic has re-routed via other paths (LINX IXManchester, or IP Transits) without any disruption to traffic. We will bring these peers back online once our Connexions provider completes their maintenance… Continue reading
At approx 1:10pm today, we experienced a network issue. After investigating, we saw what appeared to be a Layer 2 loop within our network. We have mitigation against these loops, so this was unusual. After detailed investigation, we discovered that a Cisco 3850 series switch located in Manchester MA2 had… Continue reading