Server and System Status

We are alerting our clients to some upcoming work on our nameserver infrastructure.

With immediate effect, right after this blog post, we will be changing the nameservers for our infrastructure domain, ninernet.net. This will, seamlessly, transfer the management of this domain, which underpins all of NinerNet‘s servers; each server has a DNS (domain name system) name based on the ninernet.net domain — e.g., the primary mail server is nc036.ninernet.net and the primary web server is nc041.ninernet.net. As stated, this transition should be seamless and will not be noticed by any of our clients. The new nameservers for this domain (ninernet.net) are already set up, and the only thing that is changing is where other servers on the Internet will look for authoritative information for the ninernet.net domain.

The second part of this plan is to set up new nameservers for all of our clients with a new and improved control panel. However, this phase will not take place until January. At that time we will advise clients what you need to know.

Please note that the ninernet.net domain is not the niner.net domain; the niner.net domain is, of course, our primary domain for all web and email purposes; on the other hand, the ninernet.net domain, which we registered in 2005, is purely an infrastructure domain. About the only time you will see it is when we refer to it like this and when you look at the extended headers of your email messages.

Thank-you in advance for your attention to this matter, although no action is needed on your part.

Update, 2024-12-28: Domains that use the ANAME record type may experience issues on their websites. We’ll be addressing these individually as they arise.