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Firewall Maintenance

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 […]

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Firewall Maintenance – Dublin

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. […]

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Network Maintenance – Interxion DUB1

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 […]

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Network Maintenance – Equinix DB2

We are scheduling two maintenance windows to perform IOS-XR upgrades on two core routers in Dublin. Traffic on these routers will be moved to an alternate node during the maintenance. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. Date: 2016-03-11 23:00 – 2016-03-12 06:00 UTC Data Centre: Equinix DB2 Impact: TeliaSonera Date: 2016-03-12 23:00 – 2016-03-13 […]

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