Category: Membership

It is going to take a bit of time to do so, but our volunteers are working on the steps needed to spin FurrIX off into its own project. Doing so will give that project the ability to focus on just networking and being a transit/connectivity provider and will transition MFN into a game services, name server and VPS hosting provider.

FurrIX will be getting its own NMP, TOS and goals as part of this move. That project will be responsible entirely for all of the shared routing gear, network design and transit services. MFN will retain control of the IP allocations but will essentially delegate full network administration to FurrIX for the next two years of operations with some conditions on use and expectations regarding service to Marbled Fennec Networks.

As part of this, Adrian will be giving her position on the board for MFN to Ty Dwagon as they will taking control of Marbled Fennec Networks. Adrian will be moving into a lead position with FurrIX to only handle networking and transit going forward.

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!

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!