It appears that our monitoring solutions both went down on November 17th and due to our LNE being on the road with work, this went unnoticed for a bit. This is fixed as of tonight and everything should be working again.
Looks like the move to using RPZ in BIND went smoothly and things are working as intended.
I am in the process of moving our two name servers from using IPtables for malicious domain blocking to using RPZs within BIND. If this works as I intend, it should cut back on the amount of upkeep involved in blocking known, high volume C&C lookups; making us quicker to update and add new domains to the list. Also, domains on this list will return NXDOMAIN.
I am happy to announce that both Marbled Fennec Networks and FurrIX have a full team of volunteers once again. We should be able to begin bringing the network back into an up to date state along with offering a broader range of services once the new team members are brought up to speed.
As it sits now, we have eight members working together to keep MFN and FurrIX operational. Feel free to take a look at our team page to see who all is volunteering and what parts of our projects they support!