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[Maintenance] Firewall, mailscanner udpates

Firewall and mailscanner updates will be done throughout the network where required, from March 26-28. No client impact is expected.

If you have any questions related to this maintenance, please contact support via the usual means.

[NETWORK] High traffic warning: January 20, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 is the Presidential Inauguration. Due to the historic nature of this term’s inauguration, we are expecting a higher than usual traffic levels outside the usual peak times of 10:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern US time. All staff will be on hand to monitor the network and servers to immediately address any [...]

[NETWORK] Level 3 issues, US - Northeast

We have reports and confirmation from other operators of an issue with Level3 primarily affecting routing from the US/Northeast. If you are affected by this issue, your trace to your site/server may look like this:

traceroute to 63.247.133.70 (63.247.133.70), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 heekinlaw.com (65.18.172.2) 1.013 ms 1.224 ms 1.215 [...]

[NETWORK] Network issue

We are currently working a network issue related to a blown switch port problem we had earlier. This issue will result in slowdowns and/or complete timeouts for various service requests.

Update: This issue has been resolved. Total impact time: 12 minutes.