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Server NC018 maintenance complete

4 September 2010 19:24:29 +0000

The hardware upgrade on server NC018 was started at precisely 19:00 UTC and was successfully concluded six minutes later at 19:06. The server is now back up again.

Thanks for your patience.

Hardware upgrade on server NC018

3 September 2010 21:36:09 +0000

To improve the performance of server NC018 and to address recent issues with this server, we will be adding more RAM to the server during our weekly maintenance window this weekend.

Server NC018 will be taken offline at approximately 19:00 UTC on Saturday, 4 September during this process, and will be offline for 30-45 minutes.

During this time, any inbound email destined for your account will be held on the sending mail servers until server NC018 is online again, at which time it will be delivered. No email will be lost.

If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact NinerNet support. Thanks for your patience.

Update on server NC018

1 September 2010 06:57:51 +0000

Our investigation of recent performance issues with server NC018 over the last few days indicates that the database server is working very hard. We’ve identified a contributing factor and are working to address it within the next 24 hours.

Attack on server NC018

27 August 2010 01:21:17 +0000

Server NC018 experienced a sustained denial-of-service attack on 26 August for a while during the early to mid-evening UTC. The server is currently online and fully functional, and we’re investigating the details to determine what happened and how we can prevent such attacks in the future.

We’ll post more details here as they become available. If you have any questions, please contact NinerNet support.

Update for domains still using the virgodesign.ca nameservers

17 July 2010 22:11:15 +0000

We’ve contacted all clients still using the virgodesign.ca nameservers. While all domains still using these old nameservers are working again, it is imperative that, if your domain is not using ns1.niner.net and ns2.niner.net, you update your domain through your domain registrar to use these nameservers.

Please contact support if you need help with this. Thank-you.

Situation with former VirgoDesign.ca domains partially resolved

17 July 2010 19:59:32 +0000

We’ve found and fixed the cause of the problem with the domains that are still using the ns1.virgodesign.ca and ns2.virgodesign.ca nameservers. However, due to DNS caching, most of these domains will still be down to most people who have tried to load them in the last 24 hours or so. We’re continuing to work on this and will post more here within the next two hours.

Some former VirgoDesign.ca domains down

17 July 2010 19:13:23 +0000

Domains formerly hosted by VirgoDesign.ca who had not changed their nameservers in response to our email of about six weeks ago are down at this moment. We’re looking into the cause and will report back here within the hour.

Server NC020 IP address removed from Spamhaus PBL

15 November 2009 08:54:33 +0000

The IP address of server NC020 has been removed from the Spamhaus Policy Block List. All email issues are resolved, and server configurations will return to normal.

If you have any questions concerning this incident, please contact support. We appreciate your patience.

Temporary resolution of Spamhaus PBL issue

15 November 2009 03:23:58 +0000

While the IP address of server NC020 is still in the Spamhaus PBL, we have made a number of configuration changes to all of our mail servers which address three of the four issues mentioned in our original post on this matter:

  • All email sent through server NC020 (known as “the relay server” to those of our clients who use it as such) is now routed to server NC018 before finally being delivered to destination mail servers. This means that email will no longer be delayed or rejected by destination mail servers.
  • All email is (and has been since the first post on this matter) flowing from server NC020 to NC018.
  • We are once again using the PBL to block spam on server NC018, so spam defences are back at 100%. We have simply exempted server NC020 from this block.
  • Mail to domains using NC020 as a secondary mail server is still a concern. We’ll be monitoring this and reacting as necessary.

Server NC020 is also used for some custom mailing lists. Email sent to these lists will also be handled as detailed in the first bullet point above.

We still anticipate that the IP address of server NC020 will be removed from the PBL at some point, at which point the configurations of all mail servers will revert to what they were before this incident. Further details will be posted here as necessary.

Update on server NC020 in the Spamhaus PBL

14 November 2009 20:42:44 +0000

Server NC020’s IP address is still in the Spamhaus PBL. We have been unable to make any progress on having it removed yet. This may be because it’s the weekend, or it may be that we’re just one of thousands of companies that have been affected by this action, and so we just have to be patient. In the meantime, we are trying to have our case looked at sooner rather than later.

We’re also going to take steps to have mail from server NC020 routed through NC018 as a temporary measure. We will post here again when this has been put into place.

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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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