Our ServicesWe anticipate no consequential issue with our various hosting services, and remain available for support via the normal channels. Netnorth followed its business continuity plan under our ISO27001 ISMS, commencing approximately 1 week prior to the government’s similar advice. All staff are practicing segregated or remote working, with skeleton… Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt recently announced that it had discovered a bug in its CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) code, whereby after checking the any CAA records a 30 day period is granted in which certificates might be issued to a particular Web server even if a prohibiting CAA record had been created… Continue reading
As detailed to our affected community web-hosting customers previously, today we have retired PHP 5.6 from our community web-hosts (www10, www11, www15) and replaced them with PHP 7.2 (which is supported until 30th November 2020) This is due to the retirement of security support for PHP 5.6 by the vendor… Continue reading
As mentioned in an earlier post, we have been upgrading our network capacity (both internally and externally). We have now expanded our two main external connectivity (“Transit”) provider links to 10Gbit/s each. We have also recently agreed to join an additional Internet Exchange in Manchester (more info will follow once… Continue reading
Today we have enabled a new IP Transit connectivity provider. We now have additional connectivity from GTT supplied into one of our Manchester locations. This was enabled for testing during the weekend, and is now fully operational. We will balance our traffic over this over the next few days.
We’re seeing packet loss on the LINX Extreme network this morning. We’ve also got alerts coming in for our London location too, this is routed entirely separately to our Bolton/Manchester locations, so it looks like it is affecting the entire LINX LAN. We’ve shunted most traffic over to the LINX… Continue reading
Rather than publish frequent blog entries relating to the successful routine testing of our generator infrastructure, we will now only mention unexpected test results, as and when they occur. This will hopefully result in a clearer browsable blog, of pertinent information.
A visual sample of the latest hardware to be added to Netnorth’s organic Server Farm… Dell R620 chassis Dual 8 core Xeon E5 CPUs (32 cores) 512 GB RAM Write optimised SSDs Dual hot swap 1100W PSUs These servers will be deployed across Netnorth’s various UK Datacentres, and will bolster… Continue reading
‘DROWN’ – Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption Various products may be affected by this vulnerability, given the common vulnerability and exposures designation of CVE-2016-0800. A cross-protocol attack was discovered that could lead to decryption of TLS sessions by using a server supporting SSLv2 and EXPORT cipher suites. Traffic… Continue reading
‘Skeleton’ Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Various products may be affected by this vulnerability, given the common vulnerability and exposures designation of CVE-2015_7547. Multiple vulnerabilities in the ‘libresolv’ library of the ‘GNU C Library’ (aka ‘glibc’), could allow a remote attacker to remotely execute code. This typically affects systems based on Linux… Continue reading