On 25/06/2009, at 9:37 PM, Liam Farr wrote:

Speaking of temperature, I noticed a shiny new process cooler at the Orcon dc tonight, I expect all of us at the facility will have ice cold servers next week.

OK, I know you weren't expecting a serious reply to an off the cuff comment, but I can't help myself because this is so interesting (honest) I had assumed for decades that datacentres had to be cold because servers could not cope otherwise and so that meant air-con as a basic fitting. Then last year I read about the work done by BT in the UK on sustainable data centres, which basically means running them much hotter with fresh air cooling: http://globalservices.bt.com/LeafAction.do?Record=Sustainable_Data_Centres_c... and I also came across research that hard disks fail much more if they get too cool, though nowhere near as cool as you might imagine: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf A general question then - is this (running hot computer rooms) already widespread in NZ? Jay -- Jay Daley Chief Executive .nz Registry Services desk: +64 4 931 6977 mobile: +64 21 678840

.... ... wouldn't have helped today.. both our IPv6 upstreams were down for a little while. ________________________________________ From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Nathan Ward [nznog(a)daork.net] Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2009 10:48 p.m. To: NZNOG Subject: Re: [nznog] Temperature Check: How's the Internet goin' in NZ? It broke because everyone forgot to roll out IPv6 *froths* On 25/06/2009, at 8:41 PM, jamie baddeley wrote:

nznog has been quiet recently.

<operational content> Beer.

Networks running OK?

Cheers

Jamie

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What are you talking about, I already have it at home and on my desk at work! :) I am prepared for the coming apocalypse. Though I should probably stock up on my earthquake supplies. Cheers, Blair On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Nathan Ward wrote:

It broke because everyone forgot to roll out IPv6

*froths*

On 25/06/2009, at 8:41 PM, jamie baddeley wrote:

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nznog has been quiet recently.

<operational content> Beer.

Networks running OK?

Cheers

Jamie

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