Re: Darmstadt network downtime 2008-03-29 - affects lists and more
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 04:48:57AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> On Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 01:01:30 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:53:23AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > the Metropolitan Area Network Darmstadt (MAN-DA) will be working on
> > > their uplink fibers today, 2008-03-29 between 0630 and 1700Z. All
> > > our machines in their network will be unreachable for this time.
> >
> > A whole day of downtime, and six hours of advance warning - sounds like
> > bad planning? Will I be killed instantly for suggesting that we should
> > host stuff in places which have some better standards for these kinds
> > of things? :)
>
> no, you should argue with me for with me for not forwarding stuff in
> appropriate time in advance. That was clearly my fault.
>
> Also it is not said that the downtime will be the whole time, it is just
> that during these hours there will be worked on the uplink.
Ok, that's better. Do coordinate announcement texts first next time,
to avoid this.
Putting all that aside, I don't see ten-hour maintenance windows as a good
idea, given that the network seems to be organized in rings. Sounds like
they would be breaking a lot of nodes all at once :)
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