Time or Duration |
Fault Class/Location |
Details |
17th November 2000 |
Local |
New Webserver Daemon Installed |
22nd November 2000 |
Telstra |
DNS rerouting to avoid Telstra Outage |
24th November 2000 |
Local |
Brief disconnection as server relocated |
29th November 2000 |
Power |
Power outage, site down for 5 mins as backup power connected |
5th December 9:35am to 4:30pm 2000 |
ISP |
Unknown (ISP?) Network Failure stopped all data on the
external internet interface. |
11th December 8:50 pm to 9:30pm 2000 |
ISP |
ISP 's rack failure, stopping network until it was reset. |
5th January 2:30pm to 3:30pm 2000 |
ISP |
ISP side Maintenance |
16th January 12:40am to 1:10am 2000 |
Power |
Power Failure damaged UPS, had to switch to extended
backup power. |
19th January 12pm to 1:50pm 2000 |
Power |
On Site Network Hardware malfunction. |
22nd January 12:15pm to 12:30pm |
Local |
Memory issue with httpD resulting in DoS. Still being
examined. But fixed temporarily. |
24th January Power Interruption |
Local |
I forgot to reload the Webserver Daemon Oops.. no http
for about 4 hours.. woops |
26th January Power Failure 2:30pm to 6:30pm |
Power/ISP/Local |
Server offline briefly while backup power connected,
then server offline after ISP backbone fails as a result of the powerfailure.
TXU power = crap. If you find yourself in their service area, move somewhere
else unless you like appliances blowing up every week. |
26th January 6:30pm to 6:50pm |
Power |
Mains Power Surge Fried Primary on site ISP connection
equipment, installed backup |
3rd February 3:00am to 3:02am |
Power |
Yet Another power interruption. |
5th February 9:55am to 10:am |
Local |
Repaired UPS Reinstalled |
12th March 12:40pm to 13th March 9:55am |
ISP |
ISP hardware not answering, public holiday, nobody to
fix it. |
27/3/2001 10pm |
Local |
(Shell Server)
Someone appears to have gained root access and either
attempted to recompile using the wrong kernal, or deliberately trashed
the partitions.
Does not effect web server. Only services effected: telnet
shells, MUD services. |
18/8/2001 1:20AM to 3:15PM |
Power |
Yet another unscheduled TXU Power Interruption.
Backup Generator Faulty, All power transformers for network
hardware failed. Temp replacement supply located, system back online. I
am sick of TXU blowing up my equipment, installed triple redundant power
supply protectors. Lets see them blow that up. |
31/10/2001 4:20pm to 5:00pm |
ISP |
Misc Failure with ISP's authentication server |
28/11/2001 10:30am to 10:50pm |
Local |
Main Power Tripped off accidentally. IRC effected only. |
3/12/2001 4:40am to 10:20am |
Local |
Some sort of failure with the GL library of the display.
Most likely a memory leak. Caused system to suspend services pending user
intervention. |
18/12/2001 10:10pm to 11pm |
Local Power |
Magpie flew into power line and cut power to building
when the power pole fuse blew. |
14/1/2002 1:20pm to 1:35pm |
Local |
Minor Maintenance |
28/1/2002 2:40pm to 5pm |
Power |
Power outage |
31/1/2002 11:59pm to 2am |
Power |
Power outage |
11/3/2002 |
Local |
Briefly offline for maintenance |
1/4/2002 Unknown time Unknown Duration |
Power |
Webserver went down for between 35 mins to one or two
hours when no staff were in office. A major lighting strike had taken down
the local power and internet link. Webserver automatically recovered and
restarted when power was restored. |
11/12/2002 2:10am to 2:18am |
Telstra |
Telstra Exchange appears to have rebooted. |
12/12/2002 Unknown Duration to 4:10pm |
ISP |
ISP's Router/Radius stopped sending data. |
2/1/2003 Unknown Duration to 10:30am |
Local |
Apparent Lockup. Thought Several months uptime too good
to be true. |
25/1/2003 3:34pm to 5:14pm |
ISP/Telstra |
Was disconnected from network, reconnection attempts
report ISP's server "busy" !? |
11/3/2003 around 5pm to 6:30pm |
ISP |
Serious problem at exchange. Unscheduled ISP/Telstra
issue. Unavoidable. All services effected. |
11/3/2003 11:09pm to 11:43pm |
ISP |
Same problem at ISP's exchange again. |
14/3/2003 2:05:02am to 2:17:15am |
ISP |
Network Congestion!? At 2am? WTF More likely the same
exchange problem at the ISP again. |
14/3/2003 8:06:46am to 8:30:34am |
ISP |
On going exchange problem again at ISP. Every random
or so connect attempts work, but get a PPP time out error, all other times,
get "line congestion" or "busy" errors. |
14/3/2003 8:30:34am to 9:00am |
ISP |
Main Connection link is up.. of course now it appears
the main backbone may be down.. |
14/3/2003 12:21:25pm to 12:21:56pm |
Telstra |
Lost connection for no apparent reason. |
14/3/2003 6:42:03pm to 9:32:23pm |
ISP |
ISP / Exchange fault again. ISP tech says they have a
faulty router. |
15/3/2003 10:00pm to 10:30pm |
ISP |
Exchange connection appears to be working for the moment,
but the router it's connected to has stopped responding. |
16/3/2003 around 4pm to 7:20pm |
ISP |
Same problem again, an upstream router has failed. |
13/4/2003 4:50pm to 5:50pm |
Power |
Storm hit, power went out immediately. TXU at fault
again. Backup power no longer works. Had to wait it out. |
14/4/2003 7:50am to 8:50am |
Power |
Power went off for no reason. Unknown TXU fault. |
23/5/2003 |
Local |
Two reboots triggered inadvertently. |
24/5/2003 6:10am 6:17am |
Power |
Two Mysterious Power Failures in a row. First power
failure just outlasted UPS by about 3 minutes, second power failure was
too short to worry UPS. |
18/9/2003 10am to about 4:30pm |
ISP |
There seems to be some serious screw up at the ISP, it
allows me to connect in, but all out bound data seems to be getting blocked
from the ISP end. All services affected. A days email and web sales lost.
My god I hate Radius. Any ISP using it should be shot. |
21/10/2003 Around 10m till 1:50pm |
Power |
TXU power strikes again.. of course the server also suddenly
decides i have a new modem installed, and hangs on detection once the power
returns.. charming. |
19/4/2005 3:25am to 7:00am |
Telstra |
Telstra decided to do some unscheduled maintenance on
the local exchange and cut off all local clients. Maybe it is the ADSL
upgrade? |
20/4/2005 3:10am to 4:10am |
Telstra |
More Work on exchange? |
9/10/2005 ?? to 6:15am |
Local |
Something Keeps Tripping Circuit Breaker, bi-passed. |