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IPv6

The End of the Verizon Story

If you’ve been following our Verizon story, you know by now that we’ve been trying to get them to turn up a dual-stack circuit for over a year now. Last year on June 7, 2009, we signed an agreement for Verizon to deliver fiber to our premises. This allows us to offer our customers a facility with diverse fiber entrances and diverse physical carriers. Our colocation customers can also order circuits directly to our muxes (AT&T or VZB) if they choose. Although the equipment was installed a few months later, it’s been stuck in some sort of engineering delay for an abnormally long time. As we can’t wait forever, we have to file it away as a lost cause at this point.

But all is not lost in the end. The Verizon fiber facilities are still installed, fully functional, (we left the order open in the hope that one day it would be delivered) and Global Crossing is able to utilize it for their local loop to us. It’s been a long and ugly ride, from denial, through anger, and finally acceptance of the situation. It’s caused us delays beyond our control and cost far too much money from being forced on standby since the move in October 2009. But we’re still here and we look forward to the future.

We will be announcing some promotions and referral programs in the near future so stay tuned!

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Announcements Changes Status

Default DNSBL Change

This post has been removed; it was being used to further a disagreement between third parties unrelated to Roller Network. A screen capture of the original is below.

We, as a hosting provider or ISP, are not in the position to judge what may be “objectionable” content because everyone will have a different opinion.

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Status

Hosted Mail Outage

One of the servers in an active/standby pair that’s part of our hosted mail service locked up for reasons unknown at this time. The standby didn’t automatically take over so we cut power to the active server to force the standby to promote itself to active. Master ticket ID 2125. We are seeing a successful takeover by the standby at this time and services have been fully restored.

Timeline

[2010-06-09 13:06:04] First soft alert of POP3/IMAP connections refused.

[2010-06-09 13:08:04] Hard outage alert for NOC response.

[2010-06-09 13:13:36] Powered off “active” server in the troubled pair after no login response (SSH and console) and failure of the standby to self-promote.

[2010-06-09 13:14:10] Successful promotion of standby to active. POP3/IMAP connections accepted.

Total outage time for hosted mail boxes on this pair was approximately 8 minutes, 6 seconds.

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Announcements Changes

New: Greylisting Multi-Domain Settings

A multi-domain configuration tool for the Greylisting filter is now available on accounts with a service level of Personal Plus or higher.

Greylisting Multi-Domain Settings
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Announcements Changes IPv6

New: Secondary DNS Multi-Zone Settings

We have just released a multi-zone settings tool to our Secondary DNS service. This allows settings such as master, second master, and AXFR/NOTIFY settings to be applied to multiple (or all) Secondary DNS zones without having to update each zone individually. Zone file maintenance actions (delete and retransfer) must still be performed individually.

Secondary DNS Multi-Zone Settings

This new feature is available on accounts with Personal Plus or higher.