Category: Network

Post dealing with changes to how we route packets and configure our network.

Moved to new server

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.

Firewall Changes!

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.

We are handling updates today…

Our name servers and routers will be seeing reboots today as we handle updates.