SMTP attack – 25 July
Our Dallas infrastructure has been under SMTP attack this week. Similar to an incident in February, spammers are using botnets to try connecting to our mail servers. To mitigate the attack, we have implemented soft failures for connections from IP addresses without reverse DNS.
Continue ReadingZA Central Registry maintenance – 23 July
he ZA Central Registry will perform administrative maintenance on Saturday 23 July 19:30 and 21:30 SA time. During the maintenance period all registration and management functions for CO.ZA and ORG.ZA will be unavailable. All domains will of course continue to function as normal.
Continue ReadingServer WWW-27 email delays – 31 May
A server software update on Friday 27 May caused problems with relaying of non-SMTP email.
Continue ReadingServer WWW-28 outage – 27 May
Server WWW-28 was offline for about 30 minutes today (23:10 to 23:40 GMT) after an unexpected problem during maintenance. All services are running normal again.
Continue ReadingServer WWW-28 RAID Maintenance – 16 May
One of the hard drives in the RAID array on Linux server WWW-28 has failed. We will replace the drive on Monday 15 May; a critical step to ensure data integrity. The procedure to replace the hard drive and rebuild the RAID array will require the server to be offline for up to three hours. We […]
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