We will be having annual generator maintenance done tomorrow (Saturday August 28th) in the early afternoon.  We will also be doing our quarterly generator testing later in the afternoon.  We expect no impact to the network or other systems.

There were some problems with both the City of Mount Vernon (Skagit public fiber system) and the Seattle Internet Exchange today for about one hour - between approximately 1:45PM and 2:45PM.  We presume the problems were related, but as of this time have no other information other than that they knew there were issues and got them corrected.

We will be performing work today to remove an old router from the downtown data center today.  Some customers may have service affected for about 30 seconds to a minute. 

This was completed around 10:30PM.

Initial update on 2010.04.24:  Recently QWest has been having problems with some equipment at the central office in Bellingham - either related to oversubscribing the number of customers on given equipment or something else.  This has resulted in slow and/or erratic speeds for some of our DSL customers.  Last week QWest physically moved the circuits at the central office here in Bellingham for a few of our customers that had significant issues.

We have had a few inquiries from a somewhat inflammatory article on slashdot about the 'K' root implementing DNSSEC.  OpenAccess expects no problems.

2009.10.20 20:30 This work was completed on schedule.

A distributed denial of service attack resulted in services to most customers of AS13831 having a lack of connectivity for five to fifteen minutes today around 2PM.  We believe the reason systems were more not resilient to this (it should have caused a slowdown, not an outage) is because currently both border and core routers are split between two physical locations.  This will be corrected within the next 10-14 days after we finish some physical fiber line moves at our Carolina location.