Broadband – 27/10/2022 – IPv6

We are aware of an IPv6 issue on the network following on from a firmware upgrade within our core last night.

We have been working with the hardware vendor to resolve the issue but while this is ongoing , we have been reverting back to a previous version of firmware and moving connections between gateways.

Some users will experience a graceful PPP drop of around 5 seconds while there connection re-authenticates.

We do apologise for any inconvenicance

UPDATE01

LNS02, LNS03, LNS04 have been reverted and IPv6 connectivity has been restored.

LNS01 has been isolated for testing. Anyone experiencing slow DNS lookups or applications now loading are advised to reboot there router which will be routed to one of the other gateways with the fix applied.

UPDATE02

Further issues where identified with IPv6 within our core network (Broadband facing) Work to resolve this has now completed and IPv6 should now be fully operational again across all gateways.

EasyHTTP – 09/09/2022 – 12:30

We have made some changes to our hosted email platform in respect to DNSBL validation for SPAM and listings to the spam services running on the server.

This is in response to some office365 delivery issues that took place last month.

We don’t expect any mail delivery issues as a result of this and changes have been tested with known problematic mailboxes but any NDRs (none delivery reports) should be immediately reported to us via support.

HOR-DC – *at risk*

Our network monitoring has alerted us to multiple circuit failures within our Horsham facility. Initial diagnostics seem to show fibre breaks and we suspect this may be the result of civil contractors. Traffic is flowing across redundant paths in to the building with no loss of primary peering or transit, but should be considered “at risk” due to operating on redundant links.

Ethernet services that terminate in to our Horsham facility will have automatically failed over to backup if purchased.

Faults have been logged with Openreach and we will keep updating this page as we know more.

UPDATE 01 – 12:01

We have seen all our “primary” fibre links recover and service has been restored, however no official update has been provided. We are still awaiting recovery of the other affected fibre links.

UPDATE 02 – 12:10

Openreach engineering teams are on route to our facility.

UPDATE 03 – 14:50

Openreach are on site

UPDATE 04 – 15:00 *FINAL*

All fiber links have been restored. Contractors working on the Openreach network had trapped one of our fibre tubes running that route and caused bends on the groups of affected fibre to the point light was unable to pass.

Tubing and fibres have been re run in the AG Node by Openreach and service has been restored.

Voice Calls – 13/09/2021 – 15:45

We are aware some outbound calls are failing and people are hearing a pre-recorded message advising of a service suspension. This message is not being generated from our network and has been traced further upstream to a 3rd party carrier. We are working with our carriers to identify the root cause and updates will be posted shortly.

UPDATE01 – 16:25

This has been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Emergency Works – Broadband – 12/05/2021 – 22:00

We are observing odd behaviour on LNS04. The device is operational, however we are observing latency on some network operations. We have spoken to our vendor who has advised we apply a software patch. This will result in the device reloading. Circuits connected via this device will experience a PPP drop but will re-route to other gateways.

UPDATE01 – 13:15

We have taken this gateway out of service for new / reconnections connections. If you are having issues then power cycling your router will result in a connection to another non affected gateway.

UPDATE02 – FINAL

The gateway is now back in operation.

04/01/2021 22:40 – Broadband Network

Our network monitoring has alerted us to one of our broadband LNS gateways reloading. This has resulted in broadband services connected via this device to disconnect and failover to alternative gateways.

The device has reloaded and returned to service. We are currently investigating the cause internally.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused but do not expect a recurrence.

Network Maintenance 19/10/2020

We will be making some changes to our network on the 19/10/2020 starting from 12:00 noon. These changes are in relation to our LINX peering and no impact is expected to be seen as traffic will be gracefully re-routed via alternative routes prior to work starting.

We will also be taking this opportunity to add additional hardware for future broadband capacity. This will also be non service affecting.

UPDATE 01 – FINAL – 16:50

This work is complete and LINX peering has been restored. No impact was seen to customer traffic.

14/10/2020 12:43– Leased Lines

We are aware of an issue affecting leased lines services delivered via Telehouse North. We are investigating as a matter of urgency. We sorry for any inconvenience being caused.

Services with backup DSL will have been automaticity re-routed.

UPDATE 01 – 12:50

Further investigations have shown this is affecting services delivered from our redundant fibre routes as well. We are continuing to work with our suppliers as the root cause has been identified outside of our network.

UPDATE 02 – 13:02

We are starting to see services recover but services should still be considered at risk.

UPDATE 03 – 14:00

We have had further feedback from our suppliers to advise this has been resolved and they believe this to have been down to a configuration issue there side. We have raised this as concern as this took down multiple fail over links for redundancy.

FINAL – 10:39

We have been advise this issue was cause by human error within our wholesale provider and the failure to follow strict guidelines when undertaking work. Due to the impact this had on ourselves and the loss of our redundant links with this provider, We are undertaking an internal review to ensure we mitigate against this in the future.