Power outage

We had a power outage today at work. The good news is, the UPS' worked. The bad news is, the servers were not set to shut themselves down automatically, and the UPS' ran out literally two minutes before the power came back on. Arghh.

Having a flashlight in the server room is a good thing. So is making sure that your servers are all connected to switches powered by the UPS. So is making sure that you have a laptop with a charged battery and a ready-to-use serial cable connected to your otherwise-accessible-through-SSH console server. So is Sun making an x86-based OS that doesn't hang every time it reboots badly.

In other news: as mentioned on the Dragonfly BSD digest, ICANN blogs (!). They've taken this moment to let us know that the address of L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET has changed. Now you know.