[IPv6crawler-wg] Fwd: Re: Power Outage affecting you servers - 29th-31st March

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond ocl at gih.com
Thu Mar 31 15:18:35 BST 2016


FYI -- both servers have rebooted perfectly well after their first 48H
beak in 590 days!

reboot   system boot  2.6.18-406.el5PA Thu Mar 31 07:50          (07:11)
reboot   system boot  2.6.18-371.9.1.e Sun Aug 17 10:12         (590+05:43)

Kindest regards,

Olivier

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Subject: 	Re: Power Outage affecting you servers - 29th-31st March
Date: 	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:13:41 +0200
From: 	Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
To: 	Metcalf C. (iSolutions) <C.Metcalf at soton.ac.uk>, Tim Chown
<tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Lance Draper <ld at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
CC: 	Newman David <drn at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Webb J.P.
<j.p.webb at soton.ac.uk>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>



Dear Chrissie,

thank you for your kind note. I have given the two machines a full
health check and it looks like they've rebooted well and are operating
normally.

I do however note one small glitch: it looks like there might be a
firewall issue between login.ecs.soton.ac.uk and crawler.ipv6matrix.org:
I cannot seem to be able to SSH directly from login.ecs.soton.ac.uk to
crawler.ipv6matrix.org whilst I can SSH into www.ipv6matrix.org and then
SSH from there to crawler.ipv6matrix.org

Alternatively, it could be a reverse DNS problem. I have done the
following traceroutes from login.ecs.soton.ac.uk:

traceroute to crawler.ipv6matrix.org (152.78.189.211), 30 hops max, 40
byte packets
 1  servers-router.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.68.190)  0.761 ms  0.802
ms  0.856 ms
 2  fw2.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.70.228)  0.653 ms  0.766 ms  0.830 ms
 3  www.ipv6matrix.org (152.78.189.211)  1.737 ms !X  1.934 ms !X  1.989
ms !X
-bash-3.2$ traceroute www.ipv6matrix.org
traceroute to www.ipv6matrix.org (152.78.189.209), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  servers-router.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.68.190)  0.758 ms  0.802
ms  0.857 ms
 2  fw2.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.70.228)  0.654 ms  0.770 ms  0.880 ms
 3  elephant.ecs.soton.ac.uk (152.78.189.209)  2.313 ms  2.438 ms  2.494 ms
-bash-3.2$

Strange how traceroute reverse resolves crawler.ipv6matrix.org as
www.ipv6matrix.org and www.ipv6matrix.org as elephant.ecs.soton.ac.uk

FYI the correct names should be:
crawler.ipv6matrix.org = turtle.ipv6matrix.org = turtle.ecs.soton.ac.uk
turtle.ecs.soton.ac.uk has address 152.78.189.211
turtle.ecs.soton.ac.uk has IPv6 address 2001:630:d0:f104::11

www.ipv6matrix.org = elephant.ipv6matrix.org = elephant.ecs.soton.ac.uk
elephant.ecs.soton.ac.uk has address 152.78.189.209
elephant.ecs.soton.ac.uk has IPv6 address 2001:630:d0:f104::9

Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 31/03/2016 12:14, Metcalf C. (iSolutions) wrote:
>
> Morning Olivier
>
>  
>
> Both machines should be back up and running now.
>
>  
>
> Thanks
>
>  
>
> Chrissie
>
>  
>
> *From:*Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond [mailto:ocl at gih.com]
> *Sent:* 29 March 2016 17:13
> *To:* Metcalf C. (iSolutions) <C.Metcalf at soton.ac.uk>; Tim Chown
> <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>; Lance Draper <ld at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> *Cc:* Newman David <drn at ecs.soton.ac.uk>; Webb J.P. <J.P.Webb at soton.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: Power Outage affecting you servers - 29th-31st March
>
>  
>
> Great to know that Chrissie. Thanks!
>
> Olivier
>
> On 29/03/2016 18:04, Metcalf C. (iSolutions) wrote:
>
>     Hi Olivier
>
>      
>
>     Thank you for letting us know.  We have a member of staff onsite
>     who will be powering down any remaining machines before the power
>     is cut to the rooms.
>
>      
>
>     We also have a small team coming to site early on Thursday morning
>     to begin powering machines back up so they should be back online
>     first thing.
>
>      
>
>     Chrissie
>
>      
>
>     *From:*Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond [mailto:ocl at gih.com]
>     *Sent:* 29 March 2016 16:23
>     *To:* Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>     <mailto:tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>; Lance Draper <ld at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>     <mailto:ld at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>     *Cc:* Newman David <drn at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>     <mailto:drn at ecs.soton.ac.uk>; Webb J.P. <J.P.Webb at soton.ac.uk>
>     <mailto:J.P.Webb at soton.ac.uk>; Metcalf C. (iSolutions)
>     <C.Metcalf at soton.ac.uk> <mailto:C.Metcalf at soton.ac.uk>; Olivier MJ
>     Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> <mailto:ocl at gih.com>
>     *Subject:* Re: Power Outage affecting you servers - 29th-31st March
>
>      
>
>     Hello,
>
>     confirming that I have shut turtle down completely; Elephant
>     appears to be unwilling to shut itself down completely as it is
>     still pinging back but I take it that it can be powered off safely.
>     How will you bring the machines back online? Will someone press
>     the switch?
>
>     Kindest regards,
>
>     Olivier
>
>     On 21/03/2016 22:46, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>
>         Hello all,
>
>         thanks for the advance notice. I'll shut them down on the day,
>         hours before the deadline & will email you all when this is
>         done. (hoping they come alive later - their last reboot, as of
>         today, was 580 days ago!)
>         Kindest regards,
>
>         Olivier
>
>         On 21/03/2016 22:25, Tim Chown wrote:
>
>             Hi Lance,
>
>              
>
>             In practice, these two systems are run by Olivier, copied,
>             as an ISOC England project.
>
>              
>
>             Olivier, we really should press on towards virtualising
>             these!  
>
>              
>
>             Tim
>
>              
>
>                 On 21 Mar 2016, at 16:13, Lance Draper
>                 <ld at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:ld at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>                  
>
>                 Hi Tim,
>
>                  
>
>                 There will be a major power outage affecting Building
>                 53 on March 30th.
>
>                  
>
>                 In order to prepare iSolutions will shutting down all
>                 server equipment in Building 53 from 16:00 on the 29th.
>
>                 Servers will be powered back on again from 7AM on the
>                 31st.
>
>                  
>
>                 This will affect your machines called, elephant and
>                 turtle.
>
>                  
>
>                 To minimise the chances of damage to the machines
>                 please can you remotely shut them down before 16:00 on
>                 Tuesday March 29th.
>
>                  
>
>                 Apologies for the inconvenience,
>
>                  
>
>                 Lance
>
>                  
>
>                 Lance Draper
>
>                 Research Systems Manager
>
>                 Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering.
>
>                 University of Southampton
>
>              
>
>          
>
>      
>
>
>
> -- 
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html



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