Fido.Net Status Updates

Author: jon

Network Interruption

A quick notice to say we are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our network due to a Denial of Service attack originating from Taiwan. Our engineers are working on resolving the issue as quickly as possible, however there will be an interruption to service – mainly email – during this time. FidoNet would like to…

Core Router Upgrades

We are planning to upgrade our core routers of the coming days to install updated firmware. Our network is constructed in such a way that we are able to remove a router for maintenance without any direct impact / effect on the active service, and as such, the work should have no direct impact on…

Kernel Upgrades

We are planning to reboot all web servers Friday evening to install new / updated kernels and a number of small Operating System level patches. The outage on each server should be less than 5 minutes in length. We anticipate starting the maintenance window Friday at 10pm and concluding before midnight as each server is…

HSPc 3.2 Upgrade

We are planning to upgrade the control panel from version 3.1 to version 3.2 It is anticipated this will happen at the end of October, just as soon as the upgrade scripts have been tested. There are about 200 new features and improvements in the control panel software, and we are very excited about this…

Name Server Upgrades

Over the coming months we intend to retire the existing ns0.fido.net, ns1.fido.net and ns2.fido.net name servers. They will be replaced with a backup NS service specifically for customers who do not wish us to host the primary versions of their DNS via our HSPc based management control panel. It is anticipated that this will be…