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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Hi all,

Depending on where you are in the world, you may have noticed that 
sourcemage.org's websites, download facilities, p4 proxy, etc., were not 
available for anywhere from about 45 minutes to 2 hours.

The network sourcemage.org sits on in Vancouver, Canada, is directly 
tied into Seattle, WA, USA, via a redundant fiber ring.  Unfortunately, 
the carrier that handles that fiber ring has experienced equipment 
failure on the Seattle end, so we couldn't pass traffic to Seattle.

We do have a backup transit provider in Vancouver, who apparently 
misconfigured their network sometime between the time we last tested the 
circuit and last night.  (I'm always *so* happy to be up at 2am telling 
people to 'fix their stuff')

So, while our network has built-in redundancy on a few levels, we still 
managed to get taken down for a short while last night.

If any of you were sitting around wondering what the problem was, this 
was it.  We hope this didn't cause too much inconvenience to anybody.

Enjoy your weekend!

-Adam

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