News, Announcements, and Status Updates
There was a power outage today at 11:57 UTC-8 caused by this:
We’re actually about a mile away from it, but as you can see it hit the end of the line, popped the top middle phase, and tripped the whole line we happen to be on. Everything was fine until 14:33 UTC-8 when our new [...]
We made two changes to the Client Validity Checks filter:
1) All test options now have both reject and defer actions available.
2) A “strict” option was added for the HELO name test. The existing test would include subdomains, while the strict option will only perform an exact match.
Keith Wessel has graciously provided a Perl module interface to our control center API. We’ll be posting a download link on the API help page soon, but for now you can get it here: RollernetClient.pm Version 1.0
A generator awaiting installation.
The “rollers”, our unofficial mascots that take residence in the server room on top of a router.
Detail view of the electrical outlet installation. The smallest circuit we offer is 20A at 208VAC in single phase or three phase, but we can easily provide multiple 20 and 30 amp circuits per rack [...]
We recently enabled IPv6 in Postfix on our outgoing mail (SMTP AUTH, smarthost) service. This means that if a destination you’re sending mail to is accessible via IPv6 it will automatically connect and deliver using IPv6. If not, it will transparently fall back to IPv4 and continue to deliver as before.
We finally have a Verizon account manager for the first time since we last heard from our original account manager on August 3. While the IPv6 issues are not resolved, we’re trying to put a rush on the fixes we needed to be made back in August so we can at least have some basic [...]