[davidpretorius]

Hi Guys, below is a copy of a scheduled outage for one of the melbourne systems.

Any probs with access may be explained by this on that day!
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Tracking-Number: 20051202-0200-01
Note-Date: 24/11/2005 11:48

Outage-Type: Scheduled

Location: lon14.melbourne.telstra.net

Circuit: NONE

Outage-Start: 2/12/2005 02:00 AEDT (UTC+11h)

Outage-End: 2/12/2005 07:00 AEDT (UTC+11h)

Comments:

Services connected to access router lon14 in Melbourne will be interrupted for approximately 30 minutes some time between 02:00 and 07:00 EST on Thursday 2/12/2005 due to scheduled maintenance work.

Please note that once the work has been completed, services connected to this router will have a new router name. You can find the new router name for your service in Custdata daily/monthly usage reports.

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Telstra Internet Direct attempts to provide continuous uptime for the Internet service. However equipment and configuration upgrades must take place on a regular basis, and to support this activity outages are scheduled. We are also subject to equipment failure from time to time, and publish fault reports on such operational events.

Full details of all scheduled outages are available on a Web report page at http://www.telstra.net/ops/outages.html

Telstra Internet Direct apologises for any inconvenience this outage may cause to clients of the service.