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Anycast DNS outage

Summary: We started seeing sporadic responses from our AnyCast  DNS servers last night. We contacted AfiliasDNS who operate that service for us. As of yet we haven’t had a reply or a resolution from them that gives us any insight as to what the problem is. What impact is there on customers: Typically, none. But […]

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Shared Email Hosting Issue – mail.blacknight.com

We’re currently experiencing an issue with our Qmail shared email hosting service, affecting mail.blacknight.com.  Engineers are actively investigating. Update: 01:10: Mail services are back online. The NFS server crashed around 22:35~ which meant the storage for the mail servers stopped working. This meant we stopped being able to accept new email (which was queued and […]

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Mail relay maintenance – 16/12/2022 0800

We will be conducting emergency maintenance on our mail relay system on Friday morning at 8am.  During this time, the mail relay system will be unavailable for approximately 30-60 minutes.  Any mail sent during this time will be queued and will be delivered as expected once the maintenance is complete. Maintenance now completed.

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