Simulating a Downtime Tomorrow Night
Our uptime has been good lately (both servers and laptops), but the datacentre will have maintenance tomorrow from 9PM GTM until 1AM the following day. "During this maintenance we will be shutting down some network links in order to simulate fault conditions," says the webhost, "verify correct network operation, and upgrade software on network devices while they are isolated from the rest of the network. No customer impact is expected but due to the nature of the work we are announcing this as an at-risk period for the network."
It is expected that network redundancy will make this maintenance invisible to us, but IRC hangups or general slowness are still a possibility. Yesterday we implemented some changes (adding a cron job) to make rotation of IRC certificates smoother. Thanks to Ryan for bringing this to our attention. █