Operations Feed:

Temporary Outage Resolved

Our status graphs and a few v6 only services should be coming back online shortly. We received word from FurrIX, our network provider, that they had a minor issue with their secondary IPv6 network that caused some functions to stop working from Mar 20th to Mar 24th. As far as I am aware, nothing other than our status graphs and the v6 interface for NS2 were affected during this time.

Thunder.Storm Cleanup!

I have gone through the database and removed user accounts that we known are no longer being used.

Reworking our agreement with FurrIX

We are working on redefining our operations agreement with FurrIX.

The major changes are that we are giving them direct control of the network allocations that we obtained from the LIR, just makes more sense for the vIX to have their contact and operations information in the records for both the /44 and /48. Our operations information will be placed into the name servers in the form of PTR records.

The second change is that we are considering a server rebuild with FurrIX that would result in MFN’s service becoming a nested virtualization, the details on this are still being worked out as time permits.

FurrIX NOC: Domains Released

We have gotten notification from the NOC of our networking provider that they have chosen not to renew the domains ‘birb.rest’ and ‘avali.rest’ due to cost reasons. These domains were only used for personal splash pages and a handful of user subdomains that have not seen lookups in some time. This should not affect our operations in any meaningful way.

We have also heard that FurrIX is dealing with a DNS amplification attack and will be temporarily dropping any IP address that cross over 40 request per second until the incoming traffic targeting a few specific domains has let up.