Outage Advisories
Email Outage, Tuesday 21 August, 2007
Time of outage: 13:05 to 13:45 Adelaide Time
Services Affected: Email (SMTP, POP, IMAP, Webmail)Our primary email server suffered a software problem within it's Operating System (FreeBSD), whereby deleted files were not freeing up disk space.
Network Outage, Friday 24 February, 2006
Time of outage: 10:30 to 11:15 Adelaide Time
Services Affected: ALL SERVICESA router crash has caused our hosting network to be unavailable for around 45 minutes this morning. A standby router was activated to restore access to services.
Email (SMTP) Outage, Saturday 3 July 2004
Time of outage: 04:40 to 18:35 Adelaide Time
Date of outage: Saturday 3 July 2004
Services Affected: SMTPUpdate: Services restored 18:35 3/7/2004 as the quantity of spam being received gradually started to drop off. Additionally, we have applied some changes to our mail server such that we will never be affected by such conditions again, specifically our SMTP server will now check if a local user exists before accepting the email for processing.
We were experiencing problems with receiving email for most of today. This was due to an extraordinary ammount of spam messages flooding our mail server. This began at around 4:40am Adelaide time this morning, Saturday 3 July 2004.
You may have been experiencing "connection refused" or "connection timed out" error messages while trying to send email messages. Messages that others were trying to send to you would also have been delayed.