RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2020 There's not a lot Andy Y can do when the likes of Equinix can't keep it together... https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/outage_london_internet_exchange/ This is the culprit for today's little lie down... Al. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted August 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2020 Indeed. LINX was affected, and LINX is a major part of the "Inter" part of the internet. Funnily enough I just sent that link to my manager - I'm amazed we weren't more affected than a few flaky phone calls. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted August 18, 2020 Moderators Share Posted August 18, 2020 Serves me right for having that crafty fag in the bog. Yes, it was a great start to today at 6.30 getting up to find everything dark. 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Love the idea of an interruptable UPS 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted August 18, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Bucoops said: Indeed. LINX was affected, and LINX is a major part of the "Inter" part of the internet. Funnily enough I just sent that link to my manager - I'm amazed we weren't more affected than a few flaky phone calls. Yeah, thankfully most of our stuff is in LD5 but a few of the MPLS links went through LD8, so I've spent a large part of the day explaining why we can't wave a magic wand and fix it. Al. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 At work we had a UPS that was remote from the computer/datalogger that it backed up, a new site services supplier was appointed, and they had the UPS serviced at the appointed time, but because they didn't know what it actually supplied, they turned it off and waited for someone to complain.... Jon 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted August 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2020 21 minutes ago, Alister_G said: Yeah, thankfully most of our stuff is in LD5 but a few of the MPLS links went through LD8, so I've spent a large part of the day explaining why we can't wave a magic wand and fix it. Al. I have absolutely no idea where our MPLS links connect - they've never told us. Not this one it would seem - although I understand that not everything went down as some racks had already been moved to a different UPS (and more were due to be moved later today as scheduled maintenance). I've seen stories of people going in and taking feeds from one rack to another. What a farce. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted August 19, 2020 Moderators Share Posted August 19, 2020 I can't give a clear explanation for this morning's problem but some intermediary cloud storage name cropped up in comms this morning that has never been mentioned before and it took an age to get an answer that there'd been a failure in a kernel upgrade. I'm getting twitchy. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Eddies in the space time continuum. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardbealach Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) Maybe it was because you forgot to nudge the canopy before you went to bed last night. (Alisdair) Edited August 19, 2020 by ardbealach mispelling 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted August 19, 2020 Moderators Share Posted August 19, 2020 22 minutes ago, Edwin_m said: Eddies in the space time continuum. Tell him his time's up. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 19 hours ago, AY Mod said: Serves me right for having that crafty fag in the bog. Ah! So thats what caused the problem ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted August 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) Kernel upgrade? I knew him when he was only Major upgrade. Edited August 19, 2020 by BoD 3 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted August 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2020 18 hours ago, jonhall said: At work we had a UPS that was remote from the computer/datalogger that it backed up, a new site services supplier was appointed, and they had the UPS serviced at the appointed time, but because they didn't know what it actually supplied, they turned it off and waited for someone to complain.... Jon we had a old fashion UPS on a radar I worked on a Dirty great generator with flywheel, the power failed the flywheel cltuch dropped out the generator was supposed to come on.. never did, we always had brown outs so the flywheel wasn't going fast enoughs. Instruction Manual , from an equipment I used to work on... Line 1 "Switch off the online Master Timing Unit 1 and check it switches to MTU 2." Line 2 " Switch off MTU 2 and check it switches to MTU 1" err ummm 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 1 hour ago, TheQ said: we had a old fashion UPS on a radar I worked on a Dirty great generator with flywheel, the power failed the flywheel cltuch dropped out the generator was supposed to come on.. never did, we always had brown outs so the flywheel wasn't going fast enoughs. We used to get brown outs on the 14th (top) floor of the building I once worked in; mainly due to it being struck by lightning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 UPSs are always fun when they go wrong. Or the UPS works, but the generator doesn't, and by the time it's fixed the UPS is empty and there's no power to work the electric starter on the generator. That may have happened at a BR data centre a very long time ago.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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