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ns2.blacknightsolutions.com in Germany is currently down. We're in contact with the local provider in order to get it back up as soon as possible. ns.blacknightsolutions.com is responding to queries as normal.

This was resolved at 4am

ns2.blacknightsolutions.com in Germany is currently down. We're in contact with the local provider in order to get it back up as soon as possible. ns.blacknightsolutions.com is responding to queries as normal.

The registry operator for the .ie ccTLD (IEDR) has informed us of upcoming scheduled maintenance on Tuesday January 11th 2011 from 1800 to 2000

During this period the following services will be offline:

• IEDR website
• Whois
• IEDR control panel
• Registrar API

This means that no new registrations or updates will be possible during this timeframe

Existing .ie domain names should not be impacted.

The .eu domain registry, Eurid, will be conducting scheduled maintenance on their systems tomorrow morning from 0600 CEST. The work is scheduled to be complete by 0800 CEST.

During this period no new registrations or updates will be possible. WHOIS will not be available.

Existing registered .eu domain names will continue to resolve and function.

The IEDR inform us that today's suspension and deletion run has been postponed until Monday at 1200

We are experiencing some issues with one of our offsite name servers: ns2.blacknightsolutions.com

As the server is off site (in Germany) our engineers are liaising with the third party data center to resolve the issue asap.

No downtime or issues will be incurred to our users by this outage as our nameservers are fully redundant.

As always, we will update this post as soon as more information is available and/or the issue is resolved.

UPDATE 12:05 This issue is now resolved. We're just awaiting a Reason for Outage document from the third party data center.

Eurid are signing their zone tomorrow, so the zone will not be dynamic for about two hours - between 1000 and 1200 UTC.

During this time period there may be some slight delays in DNS updates, though the delay is expected to be negligible.

We are experiencing problems with one of the Name Servers for our legacy shared-hosting services.

 

These should not be service effecting.

We have been contacted by the IE Domain Registry in relation to DNS servers that are vulnerable to attack and exploit.

While the Blacknight DNS servers are NOT open to exploit using the "Kaminsky exploit" unfortunately a lot of other DNS servers are.

We will be attempting to contact as many of the affected registrants as possible to warn them of the issue.

If you want to test your DNS there is a free tool available here

ns2.blacknightsolutions.com (82.96.97.64) is getting moved to new hardware. The new server is already setup and has been tested. All that's left to do is to move it to it's proper ip address.

There should be no visible downtime during the swap.