Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We will be performing a non-service affecting emergency maintenance on one of the DR switches in our Carlow Data Centre. This requires a reboot of the switch which should take less than 2 minutes. Traffic will be carried on an alternate route so services will not be affected but can be considered at-risk for the […]
Cisco have issued a high impact security advisory for a number of vulnerabilities discovered recently. The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON Exploits Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability We are scheduling two maintenance windows to unclog our arteries. The firewalls are clustered and each pair will be failed over twice. Date: 2016-08-31 23:00 – 2016-09-01 […]
We are scheduling an emergency maintenance window to upgrade the software on two firewalls in Citywest. These firewalls are used for part of our shared hosting platform. The firewalls are clustered and will be failed over twice during the maintenance window. Date: 2016-08-10 23:00 – 2016-08-11 01:00 IST Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: Two outages of up to 30 seconds. […]
We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade the version of IOS-XR on two edge routers in Interxion DUB1. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. Every effort will be taken to minimise the impact of this maintenance. Date: 2016-05-20 23:00 – 2016-05-21 08:00 IST Data Centre: Interxion DUB1 Impact: Level3 […]