Summary: Since 9am approximately on 22/12 Weare.ie (The Irish domain registry/IEDR) have been having issues with their registry backend. We are unable to submit new domain registrations or domain transfers as a result. They aren’t able to give us an ETA as of yet. But they have informed us that they’ve engaged their software vendor […]
Log4J 2.x vulnerability
Summary: On December 9th a vulnerability in the java logging package log4j 2.x was announced. This is widely used in enterprise software across the globe. Upon learning of the security issue Blacknight began investigating what versions of this software was being run across our platforms and customer infrastructure. Our findings are as follows: Plesk: latest […]
Blacknight network freeze
Please be advised that the Network Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2021/2022 will commence at 17:00 on Friday December 17th 2021 and continue until at 8:00am Tuesday January 4th 2022, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 10th December. During the cooldown we will endeavour to fulfil any outstanding orders, […]
Hosted Exchange intermittent connectivity issues
We are in the process of applying some critical security patches to our Hosted Exchange servers. As part of that process we are removing some nodes from the loadbalancers so that services continue to operate, however some users may experience intermittent connectivity issues whilst this is being worked on. Please bear with us, and services […]