Marbled Fennec Networks

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.

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.

We are seeing absurd amounts of wordpress attack traffic coming from the country of Singapore and have updated our network rules to drop traffic originating from the country for the time being.

PHY One has had kernel and package updates applied after 181 days on uptime. Found a quiet spot to process updates and reboot the machine.