Dear Colleagues, During our maintenance window last night at NikHef we experienced connectivity problems with one of our core layer2 switches. This meant that the maintenance window was extended for an hour beyond the scheduled 19:30 - 21:30 period. The connectivity problems may have caused unreliable access to our external services, including www.ripe.net, whois.ripe.net and lirportal.ripe.net. We will perform remedial work this evening between 18:00 and 20:00 CET to replace a faulty fibre link.Unfortunately, this may cause some temporary connectivity problems. Once again, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience. Kind Regards, -- Mark Guz Senior System/Network Engineer RIPE NCC Singel 258 Amsterdam 1016 AB Tel: +31 (0) 20 535 4444 Fax: +31 (0) 20 535 4445 http://www.ripe.net