Fido.Net Status Updates

relay-1 rebooting

relay-1 has been exhibiting some strange behaviour this morning, which appears to be a mixture of a memory leak, a large nigerian spam and someone attempting to break through security barriers on the machine.

As a precaution and as we needed to reboot to clear the memory leak anyway, we have upgraded the kernel and applied the latest patches to sshd.

This meant that for a brief period this morning relay-1 (and the redmail.com service) were both unavailable as the server rebooted.

Service should now be back to normal

Please accept our apologies for the emergency and unscheduled maintenance. The nigerian spam has also been purged from the mail server queues, and that account blocked.

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