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We are scheduling a maintenance window to upgrade the software on an edge router in Digital Realty Cloud House. This will impact connectivity to several IXPs for the duration. Date: 2025-12-10 23:30 – 05:00 UTC Data Centre: Digital Realty Cloud House, London Router: ec-r01.bk7 Impact: LINX LON1, LONAP
A single node on cloud1.blacknight.ie has unexpectedly rebooted at 17;10 causing some of the VMs hosted on it to shut down. Engineers are currently bringing those services online and they will be back shortly. This has only impacted a small number of VMs on the overall cloud infrastructure. Update : 17:51 all services (VMs) […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to upgrade the software on an edge router in Nikhef. This will impact connectivity to several IXPs for the duration. Date: 2025-12-04 00:30 – 05:00 CET (UTC+1) Data Centre: Nikhef, Amsterdam Router: ec-r01.bk9 Impact: AMS-IX / ERA-IX / Frys-IX / Speed-IX Update: 2025-12-04 03:00 CET – This maintenance is […]
Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2025/2026 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 12th 2025 until at 8:00 am Monday, January 5th, 2026, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 6th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight network. […]