Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
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9:26 am - vurt services
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
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12:24 pm - Um... is Vurt down again?
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fraerie
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Or is it simply my shitty network (lunchtime connections frequently suck).
I can't get to www.vurt.net via a web browser. Can access other sites - like this one for example.
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
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10:31 pm - Everything should be working properly now
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nigelw
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Everything should be working again now - sending, receiving, webmail, IMAP, etc.
There have been a couple of changes.
1. webmail now requires SSL
2. SMTP authentication (putting in a password to send mail using vurt.net) will only allow encrypted authentication unless you're using SSL
3. IMAP and POP authentiaction (logging on to read your mail with a mail client) will only allow encrypted authentication unless you're using SSL
4. vurt.net now has a real (paid-for) SSL certificate, so if your computer complains about the certificate there's probably something wrong - please tell me about it so I can figure out what's going on.
What this means: everything's more secure, but some very old mail clients may chuck a spazz.
Edit: There's an experimental new webmail interface at https://www.vurt.net/roundcube/ - if anyone's interested in playing with it, please give me feedback. It's apparently nicer and more modern than squirrelmail, and the authentication just worked (unlike squirrelmail which got futzed somehow)
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7:14 pm - Vurt up
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nigelw
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Vurt is back up. You can read your email, but receiving new email and sending new email is unavailable until I've finished cleaning up almost 8G of spam from the mail queues. At this rate, it looks like that'll be around 10 or 11 tonight, assuming I don't find more.
Thankfully only a single user account was compromised, not the whole machine, so we don't have to rebuild the whole thing again.
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4:43 pm - vurt down
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
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12:16 pm - Vurt mail?
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
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11:29 am
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kitling
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The tentacle rack is down and likely to remain down until sometime this evening. Sorry for inconvenience. Blame the smart meter guys being late and me having a life
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(Take a Trip)
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
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6:24 pm - Scheduled Downtime
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kitling
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We are getting a smart meter installed tomorrow morning. This means there will be downtime for vurt.net and the tentacle rack at approximately 8am for hopefully not more than one hour.
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(Take a Trip)
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
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4:18 pm - Spam Assassin Rules.
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neefsck
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Just a quick note to let everyone know that the spam rules have been upgraded on Vurt.
Everything appeared to go well enough but, as usual if your mail starts behaving strangely let me know.
I'll even try to fix it. :)
current mood: awake
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Sunday, November 27th, 2011
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8:42 pm - vurt appears to be non-responsive
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
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9:56 am
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kitling
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Yeah - the routing on the tentacle rack is fucked again. I'm not sure what Internode keep fucking up with the c-class - but i guess at least they know what the problem is and how to fix it.
Bear is on the phone to Internode now - hopefully services will resume quicker than they did the other day.
So far - I am highly unimpressed with the quality of the networks in Fawkner - roll on the NBN!
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(Take a Trip)
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
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4:43 pm
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kitling
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Tentacle issues!
There was some issue with internode routing the tentacle c-class to the server rack that hosts vurt.net and various other tentacle machines.
Internode appears to have fixed the issue and it should be all working again now.
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
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12:16 pm
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kitling
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Vurt.net appears to be down - we don't know why. I don't particularly care, because it means work can't email me :)
But - Bear is working on the problem - hopefully it will be up soon.
EDIT: Appears to be back up :)
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
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10:38 am
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kitling
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I really don't know why the tentacle rack goes down every time we go on holiday, maybe the kittens sabotage it, maybe elder-gods miss Bear. I don't know.
I apologise for any disruption to service.
Everything should be back to normal now.
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
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8:54 am - Vurt offline?
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
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4:38 pm - Tentacle Downtime
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kitling
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Hi Guys
We are having some electricians around tomorrow to do a bunch of electrical work on the house.
This means that at some point tomorrow there will be some downtime for vurt.net and the other machines in the tentacle rack.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
We did have a telstra tech over this morning and the internet no longer drops out when we get a phone call which is a good start.
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(Take a Trip)
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
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11:20 am - Irregular Mail Update
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neefsck
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As part of our ongoing commitment to ourselves our users, the spam rules for vurt have been updated.
As usual, if anything has been b0rked, or you're having problems with your mail then let me know, and we'll try and sort it.
Remember we can put both whitelists and blacklists in place if you need them - Once again, just drop me an email.
Hrmm..that reminds me, I really need to get a feather icon for these rare posts to the vurt community.
current mood: quixotic
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
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8:06 am - Vurt downtime
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nigelw
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Vurt will be down today to allow some electrical work on the house.
Should be back up this afternoon.
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Sunday, April 17th, 2011
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6:42 pm - Bleh, downtime
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nigelw
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OK, Vurt should now be up for everyone, not just me.
If you can take a look and let me know if it is or isn't working for you, that'd be grand.
Thanks,
Nigel
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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9:48 pm - Vurt back up
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nigelw
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Hi guys,
Vurt is back up, but there will need to be some downtime over the next few weeks in order to get some electrical work done to the new house. It shouldn't be nearly as long as this last one :)
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
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8:27 am - Tentacle downtime
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kitling
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Server rack was dismantled last night, moving today.
Services should resume late tonight or early friday. Unless telstra and internode fuck up, in which case it may take a little longer.
I meant to post this yesterday and forgot sorry.
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(Take a Trip)
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
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6:17 pm - Offline due to moving of tentacle rack?
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
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3:12 pm - Its time to start....RUNNING!
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neefsck
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Hallo vurt users,
After lengthy deliberations my dear kitlings, I have upgraded the rules for spamassassin on vurt.
This means that hopefully you'll see a drop in the amount of spam thats coming through to your mail folders.
However, I'd like you to keep an eye on your mail.
If something is marked as SPAM that shouldn't be, let me know and I'll sort it.
Just drop a feather in the post, I'll know what it means. :)
N.
current mood: working
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
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11:20 pm - Uptime!
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
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12:12 pm - And now for something completely different!
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kitling
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Scheduled downtime announcement!
This Sunday afternoon (10th October) we will be pulling apart the tentacle rack, installing some UPS's, restacking everything and re-cabling neatly. The tentacle rack will be down from approximately 2pm for as long as it takes to get everything sorted and stacked neatly!
We apologise for any inconvenience.
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(Take a Trip)
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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7:05 pm
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nigelw
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vurt.net and extro.vurt.net are back up, on new hardware.
Shell accounts and email accounts have been purged as per previous posts, so if we've deleted your account, let me know and I'll copy it across from the old machine. Also, tut tut for not telling me when I asked last week.
The greylisting software (anti-spam stuff) has *not* had it's database copied across, so mail may be slow until it discovers who you talk to and adds them to the list of known people. By slow I mean maybe 15-20 minutes to deliver mail, not days.
Please let me know if you notice anything gone screwy - well, more screwy than it was last week. :)
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6:28 pm - Vurt down for maintenance
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nigelw
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vurt.net and extro.vurt.net are down for probably up to an hour, we are moving to new hardware.
I will post again when we're back up.
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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5:05 pm - Vurt hardware move
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nigelw
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Hi everyone,
We're about to move vurt.net to new hardware, and in the process we're going to be removing inactive email accounts and shell accounts.
If you are using vurt.net for email or shell access, please comment or email me at so that I can make sure that we don't remove your account. Anyone who has logged in in the last 7 days (to fetch mail or with ssh) doesn't have to worry, we've already got you on the list of people to copy over to the new machine. :)
Thanks,
Nigel
P.S. Comments will be screened for privacy.
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
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11:36 am - Uptime, downtime, uptime, downtime
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kitling
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When I got home from AAV this morning Scythe was down again. I've rebooted it a few times and its up again now.
We brought a new server yesterday, this one has fail over, so hopefully next time we are away and the router goes down, it should simply switch over to the second back up router. This new machine has the advantage of also being rack mountable, fanless (so quieter) and draws less power. We can also put vurt.net into, giving vurt.net a desperately needed upgrade (the box it is in currently is very old).
If any vurt users (and other tentacle users) would like to donate some money towards the cost of the new machine we would be very grateful.
Vurt.net is a free service and you get what you pay for. We apologise for the downtime, but we are allowed to go on holiday. All we can promise to do is fix it as soon as we can once you let us know there is a problem. Hopefully this new router/server should be a great help in increasing the reliability of the services provided in the tentacle rack.
The new machine should be delivered today. There will be another downtime once we install and configure the new machine as we switch everything over.
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
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4:25 pm - Everything Should Be Back
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nigelw
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Everything should be working again.
Please let me know if it's not.
There will be another outage sometime this week when I replace the old router with a new one and re-do all the cabling, but it shouldn't be for more than half an hour or so.
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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
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10:39 pm
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kitling
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We are back and Nigel has repaired Scythe (the machine causing the problem)
However he is now tweaking the box, so expect some minor outages over the next day while he pokes and prods and disconnects the network while I'm writing emails :)
I'll get him to post problem with details and things
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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7:15 am - Update
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neefsck
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Thanks to thorf and seedygirl, Vurt should now be back online, along with the tentacle rack et all.
Its a temporary fix, which should hopefully last until our hosts return from holiday.
Services are now returning to normal and and all that Jazz.
Expect a teeny bit of downtime once people figure out a more permanent fix.
current mood: relieved
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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12:35 pm - Vurt Update.
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neefsck
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In a nutshell :
The gateway box to vurt and the tentacle rack has futzed itself.
It is not a routing/BGP issue, and its not a matter of power cycling the modem or just switching the box back on.
Non Nutshell version :
Preliminary investigations indicate that its a power supply, however the only spare I was able to find and slot in got power to the board, kicked the fans and devices on but that was it.
So there could be something deeper happening also.
Right now, I cannot afford to replace the PSU, and probably will not be able to until the end of the week at the earliest.
If you really need things to be up and running - then we need a ATX supply which will run a Pentium II.
I have told Nigel and Rene and they're happy to reimburse folk should it be necessary.
I am happy to arrange a time to help anyone who wants fix this access the house (I have keys and alarm codes)
So right now, there are two options ;
Immediate Fix : If you want it up ASAP then someone ponies up a PSU and I'll arrange for you to get access to the house and fix things.
Delayed Fix : You wait until I get paid, then wait for me to find a new PSU and get a few hours to replace it.
Most likely the weekend at the earliest.
My apologies for any inconvenience caused.
current mood: stressed
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
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9:33 pm - vurt
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neefsck
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vurt is screwy. no idea what is causing it. i am too sick to leave the house right now. Sorry, you're going to have to wait.
current mood: sick
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11:52 am - Vurt go boom?
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tyggerjai
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Rabbit is unable to get to her email for the last 24 hours or so - " Unable to find server at webmail.vurt.net", when I try Www.vurt.net or 203.30.75.6 I also get timeouts. Anyone else having issues? Anyone know who to call while the residents are away?
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
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10:20 am
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kitling
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Something went very wrong with our routing yesterday. It was an issue at Internode's end. It only affected the routing for the tentacle rack. So we didn't notice for sometime as the home internet works fine. They fixed it initially and everything worked for 10 minutes or so. Of course we didn't notice it broke again as the home network kept working. Later Megan let me know it was still broken and an hour on the phone discussing the weirdness that is our accounts later - they got corporate techs out of bed and fixed the routing issue. It took Internode a fair while to chase down the routing issue, but they stayed in touch with us, ringing us with updates each hour.
This is the first time I've seen serious tech fail on Internode's part and once alerted to the problem - their customer service was excellent.
Also - apparently we have 10 static IPs we knew nothing about, this is in addition to our Class C, go figure.
I don't know if there tech support is an good if you aren't a business customer. But when we first called they asked as to test some stuff that was going to take 5 minutes or so. I held onto the phone while Nigel plugged bits in and asked wouldn't it be easier to call you back? And he explained that they were pretty busy and we'd spend more time on hold. I like a company that isn't pressuring its call centre staff to reduce call times and encouraging focus on tech support and good customer server instead.
So yeah - when people ask us to recommend ISP's - there is a reason we say Internode.
In other news - I apologise for any inconvenience caused by the tentacle rack being down most of yesterday and encourage people to know that they can sms or call me once you notice an issue with vurt.net.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
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10:14 am - Borked
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kitling
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Something seems to be wrong with the tentacle rack. We are looking into it.
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
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12:08 pm - Vurty Mail
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neefsck
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Ok, Quick question.
If you're using vurt for your email, I'd like to know how its going.
I've been keeping an eye on it and it seems to be catching most, if not all things.
Let me know ?
Ta.
current mood: awake
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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10:44 pm
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kitling
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The vurt.net domain has expired. We apologise for the inconvenience - hopefully service will resume sometime early tomorrow when we talk to Benno :)
In the meantime - if you need to talk to me, probably phoning is best :)
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
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3:43 pm - One of the things I like most ;
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neefsck
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Is being loved.
What does this have to do with vurt ?
Absolutely nothing.
I am here to tell you however, that once again, I have been tinkering
More specifically, tinkering with spamassassin.
I've updated the spam ruleset and you should hopefully see a drop in the amount of spam making it to your inbox, and the stuff that does, I hope will be correctly classified.
As usual, any problems, mail me at gamecat at the vurt place and I'll get it...I hope.
current mood: calm
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
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2:35 pm - Vurt :
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neefsck
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The storm rages my little kitlings, and the power surges.
In fact, it surges so much that our lovely vurt server, and indeed every other machine in the rack has temporarily been shut down to preserve its precious electronics.
So, This is me, telling you, that until the lightning and the thunder go away, vurt will not be back.
As usual, we apologise for any inconvenience caused and remind you that you should always take your feathers in moderation, and please - don't bring anything back from outer space.
current mood: calm
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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10:37 am - Vurt Mail.
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neefsck
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No, this is not a post telling you that its all broken.
Au Contraire my little kitlings!
Vurt mail seems to be spinning along in its own special little way.
However, I'm here to tell you, that should you be getting email that's classified as spam, that *isnt* spam, then there's something you can do.
We can 'whitelist' certain addresses which will stop the specified email being marked. This is most likely the easiest way my darlings, and all it involves is sending an email to your friendly gamecat at vurt with the details , and he'll make sure its all ok.
Oh yes.
Yes indeed...
current mood: awake
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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5:36 pm - Vurt Mail *sigh*
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neefsck
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Its being sucky and not accepting mail from external sources.
My apologies, I will attempt to fix this as soon as possible.
EDIT:
Not only is vurt mail back up and running (at least to my testing)
Postfix should now be marking spam emails as *****SPAM*****
So you can start to filter your mail using the filters of your choice.
I have set the sensitivity on the mail to semi high, so it might be good for you to pay attention to your mail to make sure nothing is being marked as spam, that shouldn't be.
As always, if there's any problems, drop me a line here, and I'll take a look at it.
current mood: relieved
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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9:07 pm - Tentacle Rack (unscheduled) downtime
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kitling
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We are in the slow long drawn out process of switching the tentacle rack to a different plan with Internode.
Internode appear to have been more efficient than expected and have swapped it over this evening.
Nigel has poked things and your normal tentacle/vurt access should be restored now.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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9:17 am - Vurt Mail (Update)
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neefsck
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Hi guys,
Just a quick update, we still have some spam sneaking through, so I've adjusted the settings on spamassassin a little.
I'll be keeping an eye on it and if there's any mail that you think you're missing, please let me know.
current mood: working
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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2:24 pm - Phishing
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nigelw
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Hi guys - there's a mail purporting to be from tech-admin@vurt.net asking you to click a link and "update your certificates". This is totally bogus, and going to that site will in all likelihood result in your computer getting syphilis (or a botnet node).
If you've already done it, you should get your computer disinfected. I recommend boiling it for at least 20 minutes. Be sure to allow it to dry before turning it back on.
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12:43 pm - Just Quickly ;
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neefsck
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Hey Guys,
Just quickly, Spam Assassin was not running on vurt so I started it.
Please let me know if anything to do with your email box goes awry*.
*Awry - You know..."Hinky"
current mood: awake
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
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2:39 pm - Deer internetz, give me tech supports naow plz.
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bunnikins
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Dear lovely-people-who-make-my-email-go,
Yesterday & today, whenever I try to login to my vurtmail account, instead of a login page I get a pop-up window telling me I have chosen to open a PHP file from vurt.net, login.php. I haven't tried opening it, because I don't know what it is!
It does this both when I try to go directly there from my bookmarks and when I go to vurt.net and click on the link for vurtmail.
Is something broken or am I just being silly and I should open the file?
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3:53 pm - Vurt Webmail
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kitling
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Vurt.net was having a problem with logging into webmail, this is because a recent security patch broke the log in.
It is now fixed.
We apologise for any inconvenience and thank Nigel for promptly fixing the issue.
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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3:50 pm
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kitling
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We need to re-arrange one of the racks tonight and finally move all the hardware into the new rack properly. This will probably mean some downtime for the tentacle rack as we may as well take advantage of the time to do some re-cabling as well.
That said, any downtime will be of a brief duration as we will do our best not to disrupt services more than absolutely neccessary.
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