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well if it not yet ANOTHER update it has to be something else and what no reimbursement for lost time in SL just a whole load of bags under the eyes waiting to play the game strange how i can still msn with ppl from CA i have now paid LL money for 12 hours lost time of play goes to find the *dunce* hat and wears it

Stupid cleaning lady unplugged used the wrong plug again.

Oh well, at least I get to watch some anime I've been meaning to watch.

Thanks for the stream of situation updates Lindens! It's appreciated.

does this happen often really miss playing before i go to work

why is it when you seem to be having the most fun that this damn thing goes down?
could it be SATAN????!!!!! oh no, scratch that...he would have approved.....could it be GOD????!!!!

LOL

You don't need to support 500 servers. The base systems are probably on just a few ones. Eg. database and stuff.

There's an UPS to support that, and it's cheap.

Webservers might be stateless blade servers, sims can be brought online one by one, etc.

Edit: Yes, the above is my OPINION, but I think it's a reasonable one.

Behold my luck,.. working on one piece of clothes for two days and when I go to upload it I get some bizaar message to check server status and it says to click Help,.. Help does nothing,.. nothing pops up,.. I kept clicking help anyways.

Odds are I logged out on the least important part of SL, too. Because that's just how things go,.. you know.

Alisa Honey: If they are drifting in space,.. will you try a Butterfly Net to fish them back in? o.0

Grid crashed? No big deal, we deal with that on a daily basis 3 or 4 times a day in Pruni.

:/

What kind of datacenter has a power failre?

Dunno, I was just playing about abusing physical prims when it all fell over... My first thought was 'OMG! I've killed the sim '. Finding the whole grid was down was a mite worrying until a nice Linden said it was a power failure.

I think I'm clear anyway - I don't see how making exploding physical prims could cause a power failure?

The one LL uses?

Actually I'd quite like to know which facility it is - so I can avoid it. I've heard a couple of people have had stuff like this happen with muppet web server providers, but it seems a bit unlikely for a facility hosting fee-paying customers...

Besides, my experience is that many datacenters can promise 'no power failure'. So you get in your servers, and lean back happily...

... until a power failure comes.

Then you get wiser, and INSIST on having a YOUR OWN SEPARATE UPS at least on your most important servers!

But this is sysadmin basic experience.

I believe SL is hosted by Level 3 Communications, Inc. Website here:

http://www.level3.com/558.html

Level 3 says this about their power protection:

"Power: (We provide) uninterruptible redundant AC and DC power solutions that are flexible and upgradeable — meeting all types of customer needs"

I've heard Cory Linden refer to Level 3 as a pita before. He didn't use those exact words, but the inference was such.

Oh, it's the power, I mean our co-lo sucks, I mean it is your ISP. My credulity is straining as 'tis now 9 hours down and counting.

Rule #1 of Good Business Practice: try not to lie to your customers.

I was in for about a minute and a half then logged out by an admin, getting in must have been an error, looking at the map, there were only 2 sims up in the northern continent

Doubleplusungood...

Attempts to log on are now throwing up the 'Despite our best efforts, someting unexpected has gone wrong' dialogue (AKA the 'don't blame us' box)

No 5hit?


Oh well - anyone recommend a good book?

Actually, I believe it's InterNAP. Doing a traceroute to secondlife.com I get:

...
11 19 ms 24 ms 66 ms 206.24.211.18
12 29 ms 18 ms 18 ms border1.ge2-1-bbnet2.sfo002.pnap.net [63.251.63.65]
13 80 ms 20 ms 19 ms web2.lindenlab.com [66.150.244.125]

Trace complete.

Searching pnap.net on http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jhtml (no direct link to search results):

Registrant:

InterNAP Network Services
250 Williams St
Suite E-100
Atlanta, GA 30303
US

Domain Name: PNAP.NET

Administrative Contact :
Operations Center, InterNAP Network
[email]noc@INTERNAP.COM[/email]
601 UNION ST STE 1000
SEATTLE, WA 98101-4064
US
Phone: 206.256.9500
Fax: 206.256.9580

Technical Contact :
Operations Center, InterNAP
[email]noc@internap.com[/email]
250 Williams St
Suite E-100
Atlanta, GA 30303
US
Phone: (206) 256-9500
Fax: (206) 748-0320

Record expires on 19-Jun-2012
Record created on 20-Jun-1996
Database last updated on 08-Jul-2004

Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS

NS-A.PNAP.NET 64.94.123.4
NS-B.PNAP.NET 64.94.123.36
NS-C.PNAP.NET 64.95.61.4
NS-D.PNAP.NET 64.95.61.36

Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
IP Address: 63.251.170.41 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-WASHINGTON-SEATTLE
Record Type: Domain Name
Server Type: Indeterminate
Lock Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Secure: No
E-commerce: No
Traffic Ranking: Not available
Data as of: 14-Jun-2005

Hmmm, Intro? What's with the '9 hours and counting' bit?

I mean, I was in when it fell over - that was, um... roughly two hours ago.
Where are you getting 9 hours from?

Anne RIce's Cry to Heaven is wonderful

D-d-does any-o-one have a M-M-M-MUD up?

I c-c-c-can't-t-t take t-t-this sev-v-vere withd-d-d-drawl...

*starts violently chewing a piece of SL gum, and prints out the SL logo as a patch to slap on his arm*

Actually that's the web hosting provider, not the ISP, or the grid CoLo.

You'd need to traceroute a sim server to get the CoLo data

Power outage in California, eh? Well, at least it's not Enron's fault this time.

Maybe it's a count since they were last on,.. or maybe it's because some post have the wrong time on them right now >.> So maybe the time of the post sayinf SL is down,.. blah blah blah compared to their Time Zone is 9 hours >.<

(I am exhausted)

Hmm, I gotta wonder which will occur first..the LL servers will come back up or my UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter will run out of fuel....the race is on.

I have before, and all the sim servers I've tracerouted have been <sim>.lindenlab.com, which is hosted by pnap.net (InterNAP).