Roller NetworkWe’re going to start using the “Foxhole” third party databases on our mail services for those that are using the Anti-Virus filter and have third-party databases enabled. For more information see: sanesecurity.com/foxhole-databases/
Twitter posts for this event start at: https://twitter.com/RollernetNV/status/445230635582386177
UPDATE 2014-03-16: UPS maintenance successfully completed!
We are working on scheduling an upcoming facility UPS maintenance and start-up with Eaton to take place on Sunday, March 16th. no earlier than 17:00 Pacific time Friday, March 14. We have requested March 15th or 16th, or the following weekend (21st after 17:00 or 22nd, 23rd). Once we have a firm date and time we will publish a facility maintenance notification online and direct to customers by email. We are also planning to provide live updates during the procedure.
Earlier this year we purchased another Eaton UPS to bus-tie into the existing parallel/redundant tie panelboard. This will add another 30kVA of capacity to the system and allow us to finish selling the remaining colocation space in Phase I with the goal of reaching “sold out” status. However, to tie in another unit requires a factory technician to commission the new UPS on site and placing the existing system into bypass for a short time. There is also a risk of start up failure on the newly installed unit, as with any untested piece of equipment. At this time the new unit is installed and fully wired with input/output breakers open, waiting for start up.
UPDATE: This is scheduled for all day Sunday, March 16th.
UPDATE: We will update this post as needed during the event and possibly live-tweet it. You can follow @rollernetnv on Twitter or watch the feed on rollernetstatus.com
We had to switch responses for “inboundproxy.com” from 4xx to 5xx on our Outbound Mail (smarthost/submission) server this morning due to a massive flood of attempts to the domain causing inode exhaustion on /tmp. The domain “inboundproxy.com” does not exist in DNS, which is normally a 4xx response.
We sadly had to move the plug on this device to a new PDU this afternoon:
Lucent PortMaster PM-25 ComOS 3.9 System uptime is 1546 days 5 hours 55 minutes
This old PM25 is still used to provide some serial console services, but prior to replacing the PDU for the rack it’s in (and we did try to re-plug it as fast as we could on the off chance it would hold up briefly) it was the last thing that hadn’t been restarted for any reason since we opened our original colocation floor 1546 days ago, about 4.2 years.
This Saturday, February 1st during our recurring routine maintenance window (between 10:00 and 22:00) we will be physically relocating a server that handles Outbound Mail service (also known as smtpauth.rollernet.us). The expected duration is 1 to 10 minutes, or approximately the time it will take to shutdown, relocate, and restart. Replacement hardware will be brought online in parallel in preparation for an upgrade at a later date.]
UPDATE: This maintenance has been completed.