Fido.Net Status Updates

Category: London 1 (Hex)

London 1 is located within the TeleCityRedbus facility in Harbour Exchange Square, London Docklands

AT RISK – Extended Network Maintenance 28th – 31st August 2015

Please note that we will be performing extended maintenance to replace / upgrade a number of ether switches in our London Telehouse facility over the Bank Holiday weekend and install updated firmware on existing switches. The work will involve firmware upgrades and the implementation of a “Virtual Chassis” between the switches in both Telehouse North…

LINX Juniper LAN Broadcast Storms

The LINX (London Internet Exchange) Juniper peering LAN is currently experiencing high volumes of broadcast traffic.   As a precaution, we have disabled connections to the LINX Juniper LAN in order to restore stability We are awaiting an update from LINX as to the cause of the broadcasts and their plans to resolve the situation

OnApp Cloud Upgrade

We will be performing updates and upgrades to the OnApp Cloud during the Friday maintenance window   Updates should take no more than 30 minutes and will be implemented during the window 22:00 to 04:00 BST   During this time you may find your OnApp Virtual Machine reboots, and also that the control panel may…

RFO – Outage report 07.11.11

During the previously mentioned emergency maintenance to investigate and resolve issues with data errors on a line card in one of our border routers, affecting cross site links between Harbour Exchange and TeleHouse North there was an outage caused by an operational misconfiguration (human error). The outage lasted for approximately 45 minutes and started at…

Routing Problems

Following on from Monday’s emergency maintenance and applications of emergency patches to our border routers to overcome a major DoS, resulting from a malformed optional transitive attribute in the AS4_PATH we have continued to monitor our network, and have noticed a number of new malformed packets attempting to cause a further denial of service. Our…

Scheduled Maintenance – 11.01.09

We will be performing routine maintenance between 00:00 and 04:00 on Saturday morning. During this time, access to the control panel will be limited as we perform database maintenance. Our Cisco infrastructure will also undergo routine firmware upgrades which will result in each switch being reloaded in turn causing a brief period of down time…