Our weekly off-load generator test completed successfully this morning. It ran (without load) from approx. 10:20am until 10:40am, with its output voltages and frequency monitored. The next scheduled off-load test is Monday 29th October 2012. The next scheduled full on-load test is Monday 5th November 2012.
Today’s 30 minute off-load routine generator test passed with no issues. The generator was started manually and ran for 30 minutes with no load connected. The next scheduled on-load generator test is Monday 5th November 2012.
This morning at 8:10am, we started seeing increased latency and packet loss between our network and BT internet. This settled down at 10:34am. Some diagnostics showed the problem to be around the London area, possibly at the interconnect of Global Crossing and BT. BT have raised this as a fault… Continue reading
Yesterday’s routine generator maintenance went fine, followed by a brief on-load generator test.
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.
The server, www10, is restored on temporary hardware.
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.
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
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
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