Linden Lab continues network reconfiguration through the week

At the beginning of the month, Linden Lab finished changing network subnets on all of their Second Life simulator groups. Now, it seems the next batch of network subnet reassignment is to take place, affecting assorted infrastructure equipment.

Starting any time from 3AM SLT (US Pacific) tomorrow, roughly 1,000 simulators at a time will receive a notification and then essentially freeze for the up-to-ten minutes required to perform the work. There is supposed to be an all-clear message sent to the simulators afterwards, but we're not sure how many people are going to get it. The connection from a viewer to a simulator is notoriously susceptible to disruption.

The overall work is supposed to take place over a series of days, so it looks like there will be long delays between updates of simulator group infrastructure, and that the work will have to be fit around the three days of software updates coming this week (also starting tomorrow).

On the whole it seems like it would be safer and more certain to not have these two maintenance tasks overlap, but we assume that they have thought this through.