network outage

So, things have been weird since around 2:45pm. (It seems I get to send 30 or 40 pings to Stanford and then it goes away again; wash, rinse, repeat).

According to CenturyLink,

There is currently an outage in your area that may be impacting your service. The outage is expected to be resolved by September 24,2026 9:06 PM.

That's all I know at this point, but it does seem reasonable to assume that they're working on it. Also assuming that's PDT.

Update> (6:30pm): They've updated the notice to say September 25,2026 6:38 PM. Which is tomorrow. But I also seem to be back on the network. So I don't know whether they typoed the day or some piece of this turned out to be harder than expected. We'll see.

Update (9:30pm): ETA is now September 25,2026 11:01 AM. So, apparently not a typo. OTOH people have evidently been able to connect. Go figure.

Update (Friday): notice now says, "We see you recently had an internet outage. We apologize for the disruption. If you are still experiencing a disruption in service, we suggest restarting your modem," so I'm going to guess it's definitively fixed. Yay.

power is out

So. Random local power failure with maybe a 3 block radius on a perfectly clear day. It's been out for an hour.

PSE thinks maybe it'll be back by 2pm (PDT)

Update (11:23am PDT): Or, you know, 11:20am works for me, too. Good job, guys.

upgrades impending. expect bounciness

So Debian trixie (13) just dropped. I've decided to upgrade to bookworm (12).

This may be the start of an Era of Turbulence, seeing as the next item on the agenda will the 1.9.0 server when that's ready (not quite, yet, but Real Soon Now...).

See *Site-Issues for slightly more detail.

Update (9:55am 8/14): bookworm upgrade completed. yay.

network outage

Network has been down since about 10:30 this morning. There is evidently "an equipment issue affecting our local area", according to customer service. ETR is 10pm tonight (PDT).

And.. that's all I know for now

Update (9:15am Tue. 3/25):  Looks like we've been back for an hour.

yay, more windstorms

FYI: Forecasters are predicting serious wind storms for tonight in the Seattle area. We are fine for the moment, but if we go down, that'll be why.

Seattle Area Wind Storm

Actually, it's really more of a big ass wind storm sitting off the entire West Coast of ths US (short version: You don't want to be in a small craft in the water anywhere between Mendocino and British Columbia right about now). What is extra-special fun is this one involves unusual winds from the east that are more likely to confuse the trees and make them fall over.

And I'm now seeing the sequence of brief-but-getting-longer power flickers and sounds of pole transformers blowing up that usually converges to Out For A While. Just a heads up.

NOAA says things are going to remain At Least Annoying until around 4am.

Update (10pm):  Looks like we finally got nailed. 300K customers without power so this will indeed probably be a while...

Update (1am, Wed):  "As of 1 a.m. we have 474,032 customers out of power. We anticipate a multiple day outage...". Well, then...

Update (7pm, Wed):  Latest ETR for our area is 8pm, 11/23,
...as in Saturday (!!)

Update (4pm, Fri):  Outage map now says they're down to 118,540 customers without power. But that still includes us. At least one neighborhood within a half-mile now has a crew assigned, so that's something.

Update (7:30pm, Fri):  Looks like we are back up. It's a bit confusing since, from the logs, it looks like the machine rebooted at around 3:15pm but we evidently didn't get the network back until about 15 minutes ago. Anyway, enjoy.

phone line work

So they're working on our phone line.

Evidently there's a short of some kind in some cable out in the neighborhood that's been preventing dial tone from happening (that we haven't noticed because we mostly don't use the land-line anymore) that's evidently not been affecting the internet service (and right now they're doing experiments and internet still seems to be up [guy says, "It's on a different frequency"]) -- and hopefully it'll continue to stay up. But here's a heads up just in case something stupid happens.

Update (6:30pm):  And done. We have dial tone. And the network never actually got disconnected, so yay for that.