letterbomb Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I was wondering sometimes I cant get on to the site.Why is this?Its REALLY annoying! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sledge Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 (edited) Think this might be the downtime thing Arnie has mentioned elsewhere. Basically, there's some kind of problem with the leprechauns who carry the information across the World Wide Web. They get drunk, or something, so nothing works for a while. Edit: for a better explanation, try here. Edited October 18, 2004 by Sledge Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letterbomb Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 K, its weird though all I have to do is restart my PC but its still real annoying. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 The short story is that the hosting company were running on cisco systems (or a derivative) and decided to upgrade to Foundry. All their tests went well before the upgrade on their test segment, but when they implemented the upgrade across the board it went wonky. All went well for a brief period, then for reason as yet unknown they suffered a huge meltdown in services. Routers started crashing, systems rebooted mysteriously, interfaces reset, as a result packets were getting lost everywhere and it all went pairshaped pretty darned quick. I really can't explain it all as customers we're fed a sanitised version of events (as you'd expect). They've been working on the problem this month but as of yet there's still problems. The server is all lovely and happy in it's corner it's just that the hosts managed to replace all the routers and core networking systems on their side of things with a pile of crud. For anyone non technical it really boils down to three points: 1. It's not my fault 2. the electrical leprechauns are drunk (again not my fault) 3. It's not my fault Whilst technically that's only two points, I felt that the 1st was so important that it needed restating. My genuine hope is that they sort the problems out finally this week to get their systems back to 99.95% uptime as it should be. Technically speaking we shouldn't ever have more than 20mins downtime a months, this month however has been somewhat different. Here's hoping that they fix all the issues soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Megalomaniac Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 The short story is that the hosting company were running on cisco systems (or a derivative) and decided to upgrade to Foundry. All their tests went well before the upgrade on their test segment, but when they implemented the upgrade across the board it went wonky. All went well for a brief period, then for reason as yet unknown they suffered a huge meltdown in services. Routers started crashing, systems rebooted mysteriously, interfaces reset, as a result packets were getting lost everywhere and it all went pairshaped pretty darned quick. I really can't explain it all as customers we're fed a sanitised version of events (as you'd expect). They've been working on the problem this month but as of yet there's still problems. The server is all lovely and happy in it's corner it's just that the hosts managed to replace all the routers and core networking systems on their side of things with a pile of crud. For anyone non technical it really boils down to three points: 1. It's not my fault 2. the electrical leprechauns are drunk (again not my fault) 3. It's not my fault Whilst technically that's only two points, I felt that the 1st was so important that it needed restating. My genuine hope is that they sort the problems out finally this week to get their systems back to 99.95% uptime as it should be. Technically speaking we shouldn't ever have more than 20mins downtime a months, this month however has been somewhat different. Here's hoping that they fix all the issues soon. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wait did they only update their router's IOS or did they get new hardware? Cause Cisco routers only really like the Cicso IOS. Wow two years of networking might have finally payed off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Not a clue, although I'm tempted to visit the place when I'm over there just to nag. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nmcabecadas Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 IOS its extremely expensive here. If you need any additional features as a firewall or more protocols, its more money to pay. Besides some of these IOS packages require hardware upgrades. Sometimes just to go from one release to another more flash or memory its needed, and as releases are phased out, they stop to be supported by Cisco, leaving no other choice than to upgrade or move to another OS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cabe Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Foundry is different kit from cisco (differnt league alltogether, they have obviously taken on a few extra customers), and its not leprechauns, its pixies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 I think Gremlins would be a better description at the moment. Touching the virtual wood pile though, all seems to have been okay for the past 24hours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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