Fido.Net Status Updates

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Details of latest changes / status / updates

Emergency Maintenance

We are currently undertaking emergency maintenance on the network to reduce our reliance on the DataHop MetroNet.   Initial work has been undertaken this evening and resulted in a brief / 3 minute disconnection of our London-2 facility whilst arp cache tables were flushed.   We expect to complete the work Friday night / Saturday…

Datahop Metronet failure

Good Afternoon,   The Datahop London metro network experienced a network outage this afternoon between 1550 and 1637. We believe we have isolated the cause of this outage and all customers should now be restored, except those terminating in Goswell Road. We have an engineer en-route and will keep you updated.   Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

LINX Instability

There currently appears to be a DDoS attack flooding the LINX network, this is bringing levels of instability across the whole of the UK Internet and affecting multiple service providers. We are working to resolve the issues and attempting to shut down our LINX peering currently, however the volume of traffic we are seeing is…

RFO Core network disruption

At approximately 21:30 BST this evening we experienced a fairly major disruption to part of our core network, which appears to have been the result of a loopback within the core network. To protect itself the network in TeleHouse (London 3) shut down the affected ports, however this had the side effect of isolating itself…

DSL Network Firmware Upgrades

We will be performing maintenance on the ADSL network over the weekend to upgrade the firmware on our core routers. This is in response to the earlier unexpected resets which have now been tracked to a problem with the BGP implementation on the Firebrick. We have worked with the vendors and now have a firmware…

Fido Cloud Maintenance (Cluster 6)

Cluster 6 has undergone another disk reset, almost exactly a month after the last outage. We are continuing to investigate this issue and in the mean time are resetting the cluster controller. We anticipate normal service to be resumed within 15 minutes. UPDATE Famous last words. During the reboot an inconsistency has been detected and…