Fido.Net Status Updates

Category: CoLocation Centres

Status and notices re our Data Centres

Planned Maintenance – 31.07.08

Window Commences: 2008-07-31 23:00:00 GMT (UTC + 0) Window Concludes: 2008-08-01 06:00:00 GMT (UTC + 0) During the above window the fibre links between each of our 3 UK sites will be taken off line for approximately 10 minutes at a time to perform maintenance and upgrades. Whilst these upgrades are performed traffic between sites…

Router Upgrades

31st May – Update Owing to certain issues with AS community handling in the maintenance release installed yesterday we are planning a further “emergency” maintenance upgrade this evening with an additional patch which resolves issues with community handling in this release. We anticipate a brief outage at 11pm to transit routes via Tiscali and NTT…

Router Maintenance

We will be performing routine maintenance on our border routers Sunday evening which will result in a reboot / reload of sessions on each router. The impact of this should be minimal as you have connections to redundant routers. The plan is to reboot Hex at approximately 11pm IP House at midnight TeleHouse North at…

London 3 Now Live

We are pleased to announce that earlier this week we commissioned London-3 at Telehouse North. This site is to be known as London 3 (THN-TFM3) and gives us access to an unprecedented number of additional peers / data carriers going forwards which should enable us to grow our network and peering relationships considerably over the…

Routing Problems

Following reports of packet loss and abnormal ping responses from certain parts of our network, we began investigating a switch configuration error earlier today. Whilst reconfiguring the switch to overcome the reported errors a change to the spanning tree configuration caused a number of routing anomalies which started at roughly 13:37. We worked quickly to…