Fido.Net Status Updates

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Details of latest changes / status / updates

DSL Authentication Issues

We are aware of a problem currently with the interlink between BT’s RADIUS platform and our own which is causing authentication failures and connection drops. We are pressing BT for an explanation.  It is our understanding that this is affecting multiple ISPs across the UK and is not specific to just ourselves We will update…

At Risk – Emergency Maintenance THN

Due to circumstances outside of our control this maintenance could not be completed as scheduled.  Due to the urgent nature of this maintenance we will be undertaking the work Saturday evening instead and will attempt to keep any disruption to an absolute minimum.   Maintenance Window – 23:00 – 1st August – 04:00 -2nd August 2014…

Emergency Maintenance

Following on from this afternoon’s issues with iph-core-1 we have identified a requirement to update the firmware on this router and associated line cards and the failover router iph-core-2 Owing to the urgency of this requirement we intend to perform an update and reboot this evening at approximately 10pm The reboot of each router should…

IPH Switch failure

We are aware of problems with a line card in one of our routers which is affecting a handful of customers hosted in our IP House facility. We have an engineer en route to replace the faulty line card and hope to have normal service resumed shortly. The fault first exhibited itself at approx 13:51…

Fido Glide issues

We are currently aware of issues with one of the main Fido Glide mail store nodes which is causing  a number of problems including inability to access email for a large number of customers. Engineers are working to resolve this issue and we hope to have an update within the next 4-6 hours   This…

Abnormal Traffic Patterns

At approx 21:00 this evening we started to detect abnormal traffic levels at our border gateways The profile appears to be that of a DDoS attack and we are currently working to address the attack and mitigate the effects. We will post more information in due course.  Engineers are currently focussed on the attack and ensuring…