Linden Lab readdressing servers

Linden Lab have been restarting Second Life servers all day. Well, since about 1pm, at any rate. Suddenly, with not really any notice, all these servers need new IP-addresses. Linden Lab's operations team is working on assigning the new addresses and restarting the servers.

The very first thing that comes to mind is 'new network provider' – and given the network related problems in the last couple of weeks it's certainly not implausible. Linden Lab has told us that they have more than one interconnect provider – but a renumbering seems to change the overall cosmic scheme of things.

[Update: 10:00PM SLT: Linden Lab posts from the future (10:40PM) to tell us that the process has run into some snags and is still being worked on]

[Update: 4:40AM SLT: Linden Lab reports that the task is complete]

We're guessing that either a redundant provider has been made the primary (and vice-versa) or someone new is being brought into the mix. Approximately 2,000 sims are being restarted as a part of the process, whatever's going on.

We've asked Linden Lab for more information, but it is taking time to obtain. We'll update with any more information when we get it.