Scheduled Downtime – 9:00 PM Thursday, March 3rd

FIHN will be doing a service impacting network reconfiguration at 9:00 PM on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 to prepare for BGP setup and additional uplink. This maintenance will take the entire network offline for up to 10 minutes while a change is made at my switch and at my providers end to accommodate for the change.

These changes will make it possible for me to fail over the network to a second provider in case of an issue with the primary. A BGP fail over in this scenario can usually be detected within a matter of minutes and the route for the failing provider then taken out of the routing table to force traffic out a different provider. The second provider has yet to be determined.

If you have any questions about this maintenance please contact me by email or phone. Thanks!

Update: Maintenance completed at 9:40 PM. Thanks to Di @ EGN for setting up a second /30 to transfer BGP setup without downtime!