Author: Adrian Alexdre

Our team will be working on updates across various parts of our network over the next few days. So far the hypervisor has been updated, even though it made Skylar nervous due to it taking a bit to reboot. Our name server PTR zones were also updated along with some of our normal NS zones being cleaned up a bit.

Tomorrow we will be hopefully updating our routers to the latest firmware release and updating the OS on our various VMs.

Also, for our network tenants:
Marbled Fennec Networks will be giving you guys a little late Crimmus present: From Decemeber 30th until January 8th, network usage accounting will not be enabled. Quality of Service will remain in place to enforce even sharing, but the monthly bandwidth accounting will not function between these dates. Get yer steam downloads, console updates and what not caught up on during the next few days. Thank you all for tagging along this far and happy new year!

Our previous server developed some kind of hardware fault that was causing it to trigger memory errors even with a new kit. After working with the data center to try and figure out what was going on, we could not find the source of the halts.

To keep the project alive and kicking, we were moved onto some new hardware. Everything should be back up and running now.

Over the past few months, our team has been seeing a fairly serious increase in scanner traffic and unwanted connection attempts ramping up over IPv6. In response, and to avoid our traffic accounting getting skewed for our members, we are reverting our default stance of having the v6 side of the network operating in pass through.

As of today, the default configuration will be everything from outside denied, unless our members raise a ticket asking for port ranges to be opened to certain addresses on their subnet. This is being done due to various parts of our network seeing upwards of 3GB+ per day in just noise from internet asbestos. ICMP will still pass through to everywhere as normal.