16 Maart 2014 – Geplande onderhoudswerken


Om de laatste stap in het verbeteren van onze mailservers uit te voeren hebben we een onderhoud gepland op 16 maart, rond 01:00.

Betreft: E-mails
Onderhoudstijdstip: 01:00 – 02:00
Duurtijd: 1 uur

Gedurende dit onderhoud zullen onze mailservers niet bereikbaar zijn. Uw e-mails zullen niet verloren gaan.

Wij excuseren ons voor het ongemak.


13 March 2014 – fiber cut london and rotterdam

A fiber cut in London and a planned maintenace in Rotterdam cause internet connectivity issues. We try to resolve these as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Update 0:45
The maintenance could take up to 6 hours, and is not under control of edpnet.
Update 1:07
London doesn’t seem to be a fiber cut after all, but an emergency maintenance, but it could also take several hours.  
Update 3:23
Traffic restored. 

19 February 2014 – Telephony issue

Update 15:25
We have restarted our systems, everything is back up and running. We are looking into the cause with our supplier.

Dear customers,

Since 2:30 we are having a problem with Voip and SIP trunks, including our own telephone systems. We are currently not or difficult to reach via telephone.

Our network team is currently trying to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

More news will follow.


17 February 2014

Update 18/02/2014 – 13h45
While not responding to tickets or mails from our NOC team, Spamhaus did respond on one of our Tweets. We didn’t get an official confirmation via email from Spamhaus, but it seems that our range isn’t listed anymore. We can see that we had green light on http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/latest/ We will do some testings and we advize you to do this as well. It can take a couple of hours before the entire internet is up to date of the deblocking of our range. From the moment that Spamhaus confirmed to us officially, we will update our blog again.

Update 18/02/2014 – 10h15

1 listing remains which needs to be acknowledged by Spamhaus. (After acknowledgement Spamhaus will deblock our IP range as soon as they are willing to do so). As said before, Spamhaus blocks entire IP ranges of ISP, instead of 1 specific IP address or range of the spammer. This is a drastic decision, but as an independant organisation, they set their own rules and procedures. And in this way they often have internet service providers in an unwanted stranglehold. Nevertheless we always have good communication with Spamhaus. We are very sorry for the inconveniences.

Update 17/02/2014 – 16h47
12 individual spamhaus listings are blocked. 8 are acknowledged by Spamhaus. We are waiting for the last 4 listings remaining. After we surely hope Spamhaus can deblock our entire IP range.

Dear customer,

Spamhaus.org listed our IP ranges, due to 2 customers who seems to be spammers. Meanwhile our NOC team took the necessary steps to block these spammers, but you are unable to send mails to people who use spamhaus.org as a filter to receive e-mail.

As we already communicated in the past, spamhaus.org always take extreme measurments by blocking entire IP ranges, instead of the one specific spamming IP address.

As an ISP we do not do any filtering of traffic and we do allow fixed IP users to have their own mail servers, but we try to pro-actively scan as much traffic as we can for possible abuse. We already redefined our policy regarding traffic filtering to prevent such issues, but it seems now that we need to protect ourselves and our customers even more.

We still believe that over the years we already took quite a lot of measurements to get the internet free from abuse and spam as we closed port 25 for all our dynamic IP users and we implemented a state of the art Cisco Iron Port mail system.
Nevertheless we still do not do any traffic filtering and we don’t want to.

We are in contact with Spamhaus.org in order to delist our IP-ranges as soon as possible.


14 February 2014 – Planned Maintenance

We have planned a scheduled maintenance on our mail servers tonight at 00:00 CET. The maintenance will last 30 minutes.

Our network engineers will replace the battery backup units on our data storage servers.

During the maintenance our mail servers will not be reachable. No email will be lost.

We apologize for any inconvenience

Update 1 – 17/02/2014 09:00
The maintenance has been completed. The mailserver is operational again.


11 February 2014 – Issue with DNS server


We are currently experiencing issues on one of our DNS servers, namely 212.71.8.10. The server with IP address 212.71.0.33 is still working normally. Our network team has temporarily replaced the problematic server, but issues may still arise.

If this is the case, we can advise you to use a different DNS server, for example Google’s public DNS.

The IP addresses of these servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. For instructions on configuring these servers, you can head to this website.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Update 2 – 13/02/2014 11:45
We have resolved the situation, both DNS servers are working properly again.

Update 1 – 12/02/2014 11:45
We currently have a temporary solution in place. The working DNS server is now set as primary. A quick restart of your modem should apply the changed settings.


23 January – Interruption in Antwerp

We had an outage this morning between 02:05AM and 03:45AM in the Antwerp Area. As a consequence all Internet users in the Region Antwerp and Limburg were temporary disconnected.

The cause of the failure is under investigation in dialogue with our supplier.

All services were restored automatically. If you have no Internet after the outage we advise you to restart your modem first.

We apologize for the inconvenience.


8 January 2014 – Mail Exchange Issue

Maintenance to improve stability.

Update 13 – 21/01 17:03
We schedule a maintenance, tomorrow morning at 05:00, to improve the performance and stability of our mail servers. During the maintenance all mail service will be temporary unavailable. No mail will be lost.

Maintenance will start on 22/01 around 05:00 and will take about 30 minutes.

Update 12 – 20/01 10:30
After the works of this weekend it seems that we have found the origin of the slow responsiveness of the mail servers. By replacing the defect disk controller in our main storage server the speed of our mail servers increased drastically. Monday morning we had our first real stress test by you as customer (Monday morning is the most busy time frame in the week for our mail servers) and the response time of our mail service stayed normal. We keep on monitoring our mail system but we presume this issue finally is solved.

Update 11 – 18/01 10:29
Yesterday evening we found another problem with the storage systems, we completely replaced one of the storage systems, this device is now replicating  data, and should be finished today. We also needed to replace a defective disk controller in another storage system, this night this controller started working as it should again. Due to the fact that the load is lower in the weekend and at night, everything should anyway work optimal. We need to wait until Monday to see if the problem rises again.  We are very sorry for the lack of communication yesterday, we were working very hard, but had no updates.

Update 10 – 17/01 10:57

The overnight monitoring didn’t give the expected result. Therefore our technical team will perform another maintenance at 11h. We keep you up to date as soon as we have more feedback. For your information: meanwhile webmail is back online. Please clear your browser cache if you still arrive on the issues page when connecting to webmail.

Update 9 – 16/01 16:40
Together with our software supplier we are currently implementing a new possible solution. During the next hours and night we will monitor this new implementation to see if it gives the necessary speed gain. We keep you up to date as soon as we have more feedback.

Update 8 – 16/01 10:52
Meanwhile our technical team contacted our hardware supplier in order to find the possible cause and solution.  We keep you up to date as soon as we have more feedback.

Update 7 – 15/01 20:15
Our technical team had to bring webmail off line in order to continue to search for a solution for our e-mail delays. We keep you up to date as soon as we have more feedback.

Update 6 – 15/01 17:04
Our technical team is working non-stop to solve the mail issue. There are several problems causing e-mail to slow down. Our technicians are excluding several possible issues one by one. Every time we get one step closer to a solution. As soon as we have more feedback we will keep you informed.

Update 5 – 15/01 11:03
The scheduled maintenance of this night did not completely resolve the issues, therefore we need to schedule another maintenance as soon as possible. Our mail systems will go completely offline at 12:00 for 20 to 25 minutes.

Update 4 – 14/01 14:39
The data has been rebuilt but our systems are still causing time-outs. Our network team will perform a maintenance tonight (Starting at 01:00) to resolve the issues. During this maintenance you will not be able to receive any e-mails. We expect to resume full service by tomorrow morning.

We can confirm that no data is or will be lost.

Update 3 – 13/01 13:13
We expect that the delay for receiving email messages will be solved within 48 Hrs. The delay is caused also due to the high load during working hours. Edpnet is doing everything to speed up ongoing processes 

Update 2 – 09/01 10:30
Our data storage system experienced a big failure. No data is lost and everything kept on running. The system is currently rebuilding a lot of data and responds slow. You can experience time-out when retrieving your e-mail. Please try again after a few minutes if you have a time-out. Completely resolving this issue will take some days.

Update 1 – 14:43
The issues were temporary resolved but have returned, our network team is still looking in these issues. We thank you for your patience.

Due to a failure on our e-mail system we have to perform an unforeseen maintenance right now. You won’t lose any mails. Please be patient if your e-mail isn’t working at the moment.

Thank you for your understanding.
 
Edpnet apologizes for any inconveniences.


20 January 2014

There is an outage on our network for the region of Antwerp & Limburg. All services of edpnet are down. We are currently investigating the origin of the problem. We will give you more feedback soon.

Update 12:25
Due to a power outage in our co-location for region of Antwerp, connections for Antwerp, Limburg and parts of Flemish Brabant en East-Flanders were disrupted. These connections came back online when the power was restored.

Our apologies for the inconvenience.


10 January 2014

We had an outage this morning between 2AM and 3AM in the Antwerp Area.
As a consequence all user in this region were temporary disconnected.

The cause of this issue was a power failure at the remote co-location of Belgacom. Both of our redundant feeds were impacted.
The cause of the failure is under investigation in dialogue with our supplier.

All services were restored automatically.
If you have no internet after the outage we advise you to restart your modem first.

We apologize for the inconvenience.