Category: News Releases

Just a quick check in from our project for our members and end users,
Wanted to wish you all a happy holidays and hope Dec 25th went well for you. Our team has gotten both of our Minecraft servers launched, most of the migration to our new address ranges has been performed and our Satisfactory instance seems to be running fairly well.

There have been some changes making their way into our routing gear and various servers as we are starting to disallow incoming VPN traffic due to abuse and malice that has been knocking on the door. This is being done to ensure our operations remain safe and sane. We are also talking about increasing the monthly data allowance for our members to 800GB per month instead of 600GB, so that is most likely a welcome change.

We are also looking at possibly increasing our storage space on the primary server to be able to host more games since we still have a fair amount of idle CPU power, so maybe something will come of that shortly.

I am happy to announce that both Marbled Fennec Networks and FurrIX have a full team of volunteers once again. We should be able to begin bringing the network back into an up to date state along with offering a broader range of services once the new team members are brought up to speed.

As it sits now, we have eight members working together to keep MFN and FurrIX operational. Feel free to take a look at our team page to see who all is volunteering and what parts of our projects they support!

So, with Kyru coming back to our volunteer team, our projects are going through some changes. First is that Kyru is stepping up as our Project Organizer. Meaning that he will be controlling the direction that Marbled Fennec Networks is headed, what our policies are and how they are handled, as well as functioning as the chairman of Marbled Fennec Networks for the time being.

Adrian is stepping away from the chairman role and will be moving into running the Network Operations Center for FurrIX. She will no longer be on tier one support except for times when no other volunteer is able to handle tickets, instead focusing more on FurrIX for our IP transit network and services. She will still be in charge of our VRChat presence known as Remains of Avaluix, since the group is private and technically her own to manage, so that won’t change much aside from eventually reworking the digital spaces expectations.

Something that has been tabled but not yet finalized or voted on, is the possible transition from ‘marbledfennec.net’ to ‘avaluix.net’. This was tabled today and our project already holds the domain, but we need a 3/4 vote to push it through.

These changes are being done to allow our volunteers to focus on the areas that they are more familiar with and to make sure no single volunteer is wearing too many hats. This is just the start of restructuring Marbled Fennec Networks and FurrIX, as well as sorting through years of backend things that need fixing.

As you guys can see from the past few post, Kyru is returning to volunteer status as we get ready to switch back into full operation and expand our network.

He will be spending his time on tier one support and in the NOC helping us plan out and deploy our allocations across both of our servers. Also, his project is now a sister project to FurrIX as we have worked out a deal with Project Deco in exchange for his help around here.

One of the big projects involving him is reworking our terms of service, network management policy and acceptable use policy. While the spirit of these documents won’t change much, the language used in them will become cleaner.

I will be taking the time to show him around the IPAM, our routers and teaching him how to manage our name servers as time permits.

Welcome back to the team, Kyru!