17Nov2016

Server WWW-29 reboot – 17 November

Server WWW-29 reboot - 17 November

We will reboot server WWW-29 shortly to complete fine-tuning of its configuration. Configuration changes relate to MySQL and SpamAssassin rule processing. We anticipate the downtime to be only a few minutes.

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16Nov2016

Server WWW-29 inaccessible – 17 November

Server WWW-29 inaccessible - 17 November

Server WWW-29 was accessible for about one hour today due to an internal network problem at the data centre.

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21Sep2016

Server WWW-28 reboot – 21 September

Server WWW-28 reboot - 21 September

We are rebooting server WWW-28 to address a problem with unexpected high load.

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26Jul2016

SMTP attack – 25 July

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.

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20Jul2016

ZA Central Registry maintenance – 23 July

ZA 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.

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