[Mitigated] Connectivity outage caused by upstream maintenance

[01:30] I have seen several short outages between the Servology network and the rest of the internet since midnight tonight. So far there have been outages around 3 minutes long at approximately 00:08–00:11 and 00:25–00:28, and shorter outages at around 00:56–00:57 and 01:04–01:05.

These appear to have been caused by my maintenance on my primary transit provider’s router. The notification I received a few days ago about the maintenance, I am sure said it would be 00:00–04:00 on 30 January, but it would seem it has since been edited to say 23 January. Therefore the alarms I had set for the evening of 29 January to remind myself to shift traffic to the backup upstream connection before the maintenance was in vain and I wasn’t able to mitigate this maintenance in advance.

I have now shifted traffic to the backup transit provider for the rest of the night to hopefully mitigate any problems if the maintenance causes any further connectivity glitches. I will shift it back to the primary transit tomorrow.

[11:40] I have just moved inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6 traffic back to Servology’s primary transit provider. Their router doesn’t appear to have had any more connectivity problems since 01:05 this morning.