Loss of connection?

[Rik]

And in English, Simon?

[Simon]

What's wrong, Rik?  David understood it!

[Rik]

It was the flapping BGP that got me.

[Simon]

The wheels on the Redbus go round and round... 

[Rik]

Enquiring minds are finding out.

[David]

What's wrong, Rik?  David understood it!

No I just had faith that Simon was on the case 

[Simon]

Don't we all? 

[Steve]

BIG GREEN PELICAN

or Border gateway protocol which ever def you fancy

[Rik]

I like the pelican.

[David]

Border gateway protocol

You read my thoughts Steve 

[Sebby]

The wheels on the Redbus go round and round... 

[Simon]

The big redbus goes flap flap flap...  

[Rik]

Where is Shirley Abicair when you need her?

[Simon]

Who the heck is she? 

[Rik]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Abicair

[Simon]

Can't do links! 

[Rik]

While studying in Sydney she began singing at parties and private functions to support her studies, accompanying herself on the zither. Self-taught, she is said to have found the zither whilst rummaging in a cupboard as a small child. She then entered and won a Sydney radio talent quest. This led to offers of engagements on radio and in theatre and cabaret.

In 1953, she left Sydney for London. She was photographed by a newspaper photographer looking for pretty faces whilst disembarking at London airport. Her photo was spotted by a radio producer in the newspaper and within weeks this led to her appearing on BBC television. Not much later that year she had her own programme in which she sang and played the zither. The zither was, along with her Australian-ness, to become her trademark. She released her first record "Careless Love" that year. During 1954 she co-starred with comedian Norman Wisdom in the film, "One Good Turn".

In 1956 she recorded (with George Martin producing) the title song for the soundtrack of the classic Australian movie "Smiley". Through the middle/late 1950s she hosted (with help from her puppet friends, Australian indigenous children, Tea Cup and Clothespeg), a series called Children's Hour, a children's TV show. In the process she became an unofficial ambassador and promoter of Australia to a generation of British children. This Australian image was reinforced by her release of records with titles such as "(I Love You) Fair Dinkum" & "Botany Bay". During 1959 she returned to Australia briefly to record a series of television documentary films she had conceived, based on Australian folk songs, entitled "Shirley Abicair in Australia", for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) TV network.

In 1962 she toured the Soviet Union, and in the same year she gave a recital at the Festival Hall in London. Later that year in October she visited the USA for performances. It was in 1962 as well that her children's book, "Tales of Tumbarumba" was published. In June 1963 she returned to the US and appeared on the "Smothers Brothers" TV show. 1965 saw her put out an EP, "On the Nursey Beat", which was a number of nursery rhymes put to a Mersey beat. During 1965 she did a tour with British comedian Frankie Howerd to entertain British forces stationed in the Malay Peninsula and Sarawak, Borneo during the unrest there. This tour was filmed and later released as a TV special "East of Howerd". During 1966 - 1967 she released a number of more mature songs on record including her version of the Gerry Goffin - Carole King song, "So Goes Love" and Paul Simon's, "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall". She had previously, in the early 1960s, released three albums of folk songs.

She joined up with harmonica player Larry Adler in 1968 to do a children's theatre show. She began her own one-woman theatre show in 1969 at the Arts Theatre in London.

In 1971 she moved to the United States (Oregon), where she appeared in a series of college concerts with the famed American writer Ken Kesey. Shirley Abicair currently lives in London and divides her time between Britain, the USA and Australia.

[Simon]

So, now I know. 

[Rik]

I remember her as a kid... Me, not her.

[karvala]

We've noticed a 'flapping' BGP peering session with Level3 from one of our Redbus routers which has been causing the CPU on the router to wedge for brief periods. This may be causing the periods of unresponsiveness of the Forum and it may even have shown as PPP drops for some people. So, we have dropped that peering session and will be monitoring closely.
Simon

Good to see you're on the case.  For information purposes, it's just happened again (around 19.30pm).  In each case it's the same, no loss of sync, and usually no loss of PPP, unless it's a more substantial episode, but instead it's just characterised by loss of functional connection for anything up to a couple of minutes (but usually even shorter than that), after which it's fine again.  Many people will have no record of it because it won't show in router logs, and unless you happen to be surfing or downloading at exactly the right time, you'll get no symptoms, but it's there still.

[john]

I agree it affected me too.

[Baz]

and me about the same time for a few minutes

[Glenn]

Rik reported it just before he left for the day

[john]

I didn't think Rik ever left, I thought he was hard wired to the servers 

[Glenn]

The server is on a time switch, powers up around 9 am shuts down between 7 & 8 pm