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NC023: Maintenance complete

27 March 2021 20:32:10 +0000

Maintenance on server NC023 has completed successfully. We have tested its relay features and they are working correctly.

That said, there will be more upgrades performed on this server in the not-too-distant future. However, there will be plenty of notices of this work.

Thank-you for your patience. If you have any question, please contact NinerNet support.

NC023: Maintenance underway

27 March 2021 19:32:47 +0000

Maintenance on server NC023 is about to begin, about half an hour late. Apologies for the delay.

NC023: Relay server maintenance

26 March 2021 07:11:25 +0000

The relay mail server will be down briefly for some maintenance during our weekly maintenance window this weekend. This will start at 19:00 UTC on Saturday 27 March 2021, and should be complete within the hour.

We will post an update when the maintenance starts and when it is finished. This does not affect our primary mail server; it only affects you if you know that you use the relay server for outbound email.

If you have any questions, please contact NinerNet support. Thanks very much for your patience and understanding.

Emails to Microsoft domains delayed

12 March 2021 04:16:41 +0000

Since about 05:00 UTC on 11 March we have noticed that emails to Microsoft’s free email domains — hotmail.com, outlook.com, msn.com, live.com and various other domains in various other TLDs — have been and are being significantly delayed, sometimes by twelve hours or more. This is not a problem with our mail servers; it is Microsoft that are deferring and refusing deliveries. If you look at their “service health” page, they claim that “Everything is up and running”, but this is not accurate — or true.

We are monitoring the situation, but there is little to nothing that we can do. We ask you to have patience when communicating with people who use this free email service, and if Microsoft cared to communicate with the public, we’re sure they’d ask that too.

NC036: Mail server is back online

21 September 2020 07:26:54 +0000

Our apologies. The sending side of the mail server (NC036) is back up. It was down for 21 minutes between 06:56 and 07:17 UTC. The ability to check your email account was not down.

We will post additional information and contact the affected clients shortly.

NC036: Emails to Hotmail/Outlook being redirected

22 May 2020 07:03:49 +0000

Some clients may have had emails they sent to Hotmail, Outlook and other Microsoft email service domains bounced in the last 24 hours. This is because the primary mail server’s IP address has been blacklisted by Microsoft, despite our being enrolled in their “Junk Mail Reporting Program”. Our being enrolled is supposed to result in our being informed of spam complaints (which are overwhelmingly false) before our IP address is blacklisted, but their system seems to have been broken for the last few years.

Until we can get in touch with Microsoft support to have our IP address removed, or until our listing expires, we are automatically directing all email to their domains through our relay server, which is not blacklisted.

If you had an email bounced, please resend it. Thank-you, and sorry for the hassle. If you have any questions please contact NinerNet support.

NC036: Maintenance complete

10 June 2019 15:11:11 +0000

Our scheduled maintenance to increase the storage space available for email accounts on the mail server (NC036) is complete, after a delay completing the final step. The ability to send and receive email was not available between 19:23 and 20:19 UTC on 8 June. The expanded disk space has been tested and all is running normally.

If you have any issues or questions, please contact NinerNet support. Thank-you.

NC036: Scheduled maintenance underway

8 June 2019 19:15:56 +0000

The scheduled maintenance to increase hard drive space on server NC036 is underway. We will post progress reports or notice that the maintenance is complete as necessary.

NC023: Secondary issue resolved

12 March 2019 20:26:33 +0000

The secondary issues referred to previously were not issues at all. A single test out of several failed, but the failure was unrelated to this server.

This issue is now closed. We apologise for any inconvenience this emergency maintenance may have caused while the server was offline between approximately 13:26 and 14:03 UTC.

If you have any questions, please contact support. Thank-you for your patience.

NC023: Emergency maintenance

12 March 2019 15:01:42 +0000

Due to issues affecting this server (NC023, the relay server), it has just undergone emergency maintenance. However, on boot there are new issues affecting it.

We are working to resolve the issue, and will post updates here. We apologise for this inconvenience.

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Systems at a Glance:


Loc.SystemStatusPing
Server NC023, London, United Kingdom (Relay server), INTERNAL.NC023InternalUp?
Server NC028, Vancouver, Canada (Monitoring server), INTERNAL.NC028InternalUp?
Server NC031, New York, United States of America (Web server), INTERNAL.NC031InternalUp?
Server NC033, Toronto, Canada (Primary nameserver), OPERATIONAL.NC033OperationalUp?
Server NC034, Lusaka, Zambia (Phone server), INTERNAL.NC034InternalUp?
Server NC035, Sydney, Australia (Secondary nameserver), OPERATIONAL.NC035OperationalUp?
Server NC036, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Mail server), OPERATIONAL.NC036OperationalUp?
Server NC040, Toronto, Canada (Web server), INTERNAL.NC040InternalUp?
Server NC041, New York, United States of America (Web server), OPERATIONAL.NC041OperationalUp?
Server NC042, Seattle, United States of America (Status website), OPERATIONAL.NC042OperationalUp?

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