Server and System Status

NC036: Maintenance complete

16 October 2021 09:05:46 +0000

The maintenance on server NC036 (the primary mail server) is complete and the server is back online. It was unavailable between 08:28 and 08:32 UTC. According to some reports there have been issues with delayed emails and “lookup failure” errors, but these have now cleared.

We’ll be posting some further information shortly with more details.

Tags: down time, email, mail, mail server, reboot, webmail
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC036
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NC036: Weekend maintenance moved up, starting in the next few minutes

16 October 2021 08:23:31 +0000

The situation on server NC036 needs to be addressed immediately. We will be doing this maintenance in the next few minutes. We will post updates here.

Tags: down time, email, mail, mail server, reboot, webmail
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC036
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NC036: Mail server disk space issue

15 October 2021 11:34:08 +0000

Server NC036 (the primary mail server) briefly ran out of disk space on Friday 15 October at 11:02 UTC. This was immediately rectified, and the server was running normally again at 11:10.

This is the reason for this weekend’s scheduled maintenance. This problem won’t happen again after the maintenance. We apologise for this temporary problem.

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

Tags: email, email delivery, error messages, mail, mail server, webmail
Categories: Email, Incidents, NC036
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NC036: Maintenance this weekend

13 October 2021 11:30:19 +0000

Server NC036 (the primary mail server) will be down briefly this weekend during the weekly maintenance window while we again increase the disk space available on the server. The downtime should be less than an hour during the least busy part of the weekend on Saturday evening UTC.

During the downtime you will not be able to send or check email, and incoming email will be held on the sending servers until server NC036 is back online. Once the server is back online mail will be delivered in line with standard retry rates. This will mean that some incoming mail may be delayed briefly, but no mail will be lost.

We will post updates here shortly before the maintenance begins, and again once it has concluded.

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

Tags: down time, email delivery, mail, mail server, reboot, webmail
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC036
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NC041: Server not rebooted

8 October 2021 06:36:57 +0000

Contrary to our earlier post a few minutes ago, we are not rebooting server NC041. The reboot is not needed. Apologies for the false alarm.

Tags: down time, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC041
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NC041: Emergency server reboot

8 October 2021 06:30:16 +0000

We will be rebooting server NC041 (the primary web server) very shortly following some updates. It will be down for fewer than 60 seconds, and we’ll post here to confirm it is up again. This does not affect email at all.

Tags: down time, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC041
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NC036: Possible resolution of issues with Cloudmark/Shaw

12 September 2021 16:13:55 +0000

At the end of August we heard from Cloudmark that, “Due to the IP [of server NC036] being located in the Netherlands, it was automatically put into a lower sending class. The sending class has been increased so deliverability will improve.” Since that time it appears that emails to shaw.ca and a few other domains using Cloudmark have been delivered without delay.

If this situation continues, it’s yet another example of what can be achieved if Internet companies work together, rather than ignoring each other.

Tags: cloudfilter, cloudmark, email delivery, shaw, shaw communications inc.
Categories: Email, NC036
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NC036: Emergency maintenance explanation

2 September 2021 09:23:31 +0000

The emergency maintenance on server NC036 earlier today was to add additional disk space for email storage. Normally this maintenance is scheduled in advance, but today a number of factors combined to require us to take action immediately. We will work to avoid this situation in the future, but the cause of the situation was one of the aforementioned factors.

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

Tags: down time, email, email delivery, imap, mail, mail server, pop, smtp
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC036
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NC036: Server back online

2 September 2021 02:59:34 +0000

Server NC036 is back online. It was down for 6 minutes between 02:31 and 02:37 UTC. We’ll be posting additional information about this shortly.

Tags: down time, email, email delivery, imap, mail, mail server, pop, smtp
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC036
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NC036: Emergency maintenance

2 September 2021 02:33:05 +0000

Server NC036 (our primary mail server) will be undergoing emergency maintenance within the next few minutes. The server will be down for approximately half an hour.

We will post an update when we are done.

Tags: down time, email, email delivery, imap, mail, mail server, pop, smtp
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC036
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System	Status	Ping
NC023	Internal	Up?
NC028	Internal	Up?
NC031	Internal	Up?
NC033	Operational	Up?
NC034	Internal	Up?
NC035	Operational	Up?
NC036	Operational	Up?
NC040	Internal	Up?
NC041	Operational	Up?
NC042	Operational	Up?