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
At 11:52am today, we noticed one of our dual power feeds in one of our racks in LDeX2 Manchester went offline for approx. 4 minutes. We have contacted the datacentre to investigate the cause of this loss of power. The majority of our equipment in this rack has dual power… Continue reading
At 7:04am this morning, we had a dark fibre failure between two of our Manchester datacentres. The cause of this is currently being investigated by the fibre provider. Unfortunately, our backup fibre path failed to take over leading to one of our Manchester datacentres becoming isolated. This was caused by… Continue reading
At 6:17pm this evening, one of our core switches unexpectedly restarted. Upon investigation, this was caused by a software fault in Cisco IOS which triggered an automatic restart and crashdump. We will analyse this to see if we anticipate any further restarts of this switch. Although no customers are directly… Continue reading
At approx 4:55pm UK local time, we experienced a loss of our LINX (London) connectivity. This is provided by a “Connexions” partner, and we suspect an issues lies somewhere within their network. A brief period of instability would have occurred whilst BGP reconverged automatically to our failover paths. No further… Continue reading
At approx 6:45am this morning, our monitoring triggered reports of instability for connectivity via our LINX connection (London Internet Exchange) in London. As this link was not saturated in any way, we took the decision to shutdown the link to cause all traffic to re-route via alternative paths. This connection… Continue reading
At 1:43pm, our monitoring identified a link failure on our metro ethernet ring between Bolton and Manchester. As designed, our ring reconverged via backup links and no outage was experienced – however the ring now has reduced resilience. We have raised a fault with Virgin Media to investigate the cause… 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
At approx. 8:15pm this evening, our alerting saw a flap of our protected fibre link between Manchester and London (provided as an MPLS pseudowire) which affected connectivity between LDeX2 and LDeX1 datacentres. This link is used solely for our connectivity to LINX LON1 and LINX LON2 peering networks, and caused… Continue reading
We are carrying out some emergency maintenance on the mailserver mail6.netnorth.co.uk. This may lead to some periods of inaccessibility for either mail or webmail connections to this service. Other mailservers are not affected. This maintenance is expected to take no longer than a few hours total – although any inaccessibility… Continue reading