Category: Network

Post dealing with changes to how we route packets and configure our network.

Network Changes

There may be some connectivity hiccups throughout the evening as we are working on moving some interfaces around and restructuring parts of the network based off of lessons learned and changes that should have been implemented a year or two ago.

We are doing our best to minimize down time, but some routers will have to be rebooted as we go along.

Status Bot Issues

So, it seems at some point in the last few months, our status bot got wrecked. Quad9 stopped answering DNS request from our network and the bot silently failed and didn’t make any alerts to us about it.

So there was half assed and just broken uptime tracking until I noticed it the other night when checking over our website.

This issue has been resolved. Steps taking were first updating the SSL cert cause it expired during this time; updating the name server settings to use CF’s public DNS; and restarting the bot. Everything appears to be working correctly now.

Abort Mission!

That little project did not go over well what so ever and a lot of things ended up broken to hell and back. Adrian is working on restoring the network back to stable images from a few nights ago and we will not be revisiting this idea again.