Hi all. Recent news is, that about an hour ago the entire NIKHEF location went down. The Amsterdam science park is now out of power. Including in this location is also the famous Amsterdam Internet Exchange, the largest exchange worldwide. Many large networks are touched by this. More details will be reported later. A quick test: http://www.webhostingtalk.nl/quicktest.php?action=result&qtid=181678&r=6714 Update, the following Networks are reported to be down allready: Alice Amsterdam internet exchange Ecatel Eweka KPN Netherlands Leaseweb (part of)
Yes, they wont register the downtime because the actual marketplaces went off, some providers routed their traffic away, but 90% of the providers went down. Your boxes did not go down, but the entire internet connections dropped. Details about this MAJOR failure of services can be seen here: http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/ You can see how the traffic dropped at around 20.00/2100 GMT +1. It is still not recovered entirely. Easy comparison can be made if you look at the day before. For people who dont know what the AMS-IX is, it is the internet heart of the Netherlands, and maybe even of the world. NIKHEF went down for the first time in a very long period, we didnt prepare for this, and we were caught by surprise. NIKHEF has been the leading location in the Netherlands for many years, serving over 90% of the providers of the Netherlands. For the techies, one of the first networks that came back online entirely after the crash was Ecatel. Shortly after that the others followed. At 23.00 GMT +1 Akamai was not yet restored. (Akamai is responsible for hotmail, among others) At this moment, NIKHEF itself is still unavailable. http://www.nikhef.nl/ Alot of updates will be released on the internet by the Dutch networks the coming days. This will be very interesting for the serious engineers in here. Find out what YOU would do different in protecting the most powerfull internet infrastructure in the world from experiencing something like this. Much regards,