Info: Spam from “info@edpnet.net”

Dear customers,

We would like to inform you about a spamwave that identifies itself as info@edpnet.net aimed at both customers and non-customers. The source seems to be a botnet.

The mail contains the subject “Uw edpnet factuur 2015xxxxxx” and an attachment. We advice our customers to verify any open invoices via my.edpnet.be.

Please do not inform invoices in the .doc format. All of our invoices are sent using .pdf. We advice those that have opened the .doc file to scan their computer for malware.

Update: Our mailservers are running on a delay as the spam is being processed. It can take several hours for the processing time to normalize. No mail will be lost.

Update: Our mailservers have processed the last of the backlog and are returning to normal functionality.

If you have any questions left, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards
The edpnet team


Issue: Delay on mailsystems

Dear customers,

Due to a sudden and continuous influx of spam mails, our relays have been overloaded. Mail delivery is currently delayed. We are working on resolving the issue. More information later.

Description:
Start:
2015-05-20 09:00 AM
End: 2015-05-20 12:00 AM
Duration: 3 hours
Impacted services: All mail services.

UPDATE 12:05 – Mail traffic seems to be normalizing. Relays are clearing out their backlogs. We expect normal traffic flow to be resumed soon.

UPDATE 13:10 – Mail traffic flow has been fully restored.  All mails towards Yahoo domains and many more verified spam mails have been manually removed from our queue.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time


Outage: AMS-IX Internet Exchange

Dear customers,

There is currently a connectivity issue towards AMS-IX. One of our internet exchange partners. This results in very slow traffic as it is being rerouted through our other partners.

This will affect all internet providers using AMS-IX.

Description:
Start:
2015-05-13 12:40 PM*
End: 2015-05-13 13:10 PM*
Duration: Unknown
Impacted services: All internet services.

RFO:
A loop was created in the AMS-IX netwerk during a planned maintenance. This caused BGP sessions on all peering customers to drop. The loop was resolved and BGP sessions were restored.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time


Maintenance – Edpnet

Dear customers,

Edpnet has planned a maintenance on our optical link between Sint-Niklaas and Brussels.

Higher latency is expected whilst traffic is rerouted via longer paths.

Description:
Start:
2015-05-13 06:00 AM*
End: 2015-05-13 06:30 AM*
Duration: 30 minutes
Impacted services: edpnet internet

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time


Outage: Explore lines

Dear customers,

We are currently experiencing issues with Explore lines. The issue is currently under investigation by our NOC team. Further updates will be released as soon as possible.

Description:
Start:
11:15 AM 28/04/2015
End:
Duration
:
Impacted services: All fiber lines.

Updates
14:21 –
Proximus has sent an Engineer to replace a card, no further updates yet.
15:45 – A problem on one end of the fiber has been fixed, an secondary issue on the other end of the fiber has also been detected, a Proximus tech has been dispatched to locate and fix this problem. An ETR of 4 hours has been given.
16:59 – All lines have been brought back online, Proximus does not expect anymore downtime during the remainder of the repairs.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time


Issue: Proximus – Outgoing calls

Dear customers,

Proximus has a major issue with processing calls. Customers may have problems with outgoing calls. We have a backup route for most destinations but some may still fail.

Proximus is working on a solution at this moment, this should be fixed soon.

Description: Intermittent issues with outgoing calls
Start:
2015-04-27 10:10 AM*
End: 2015-04-27 22:00 PM*
Impacted services: edpnet telephony (outgoing)

Update: Proximus has resolved the degradation and is monitoring the stability.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time


Issue: General connectivity problems

Dear customers,

We currently have connectivity issues, our NOC team is investigating the problems and we hope to get this resolved as soon as possible.

More information will be available as we receive it.

Updates:
09:51 –
There was a sudden congestion of the entire network causing enormous packetloss, we’re investigating the source.
10:02 –
Everything has returned back to normal. We will communicate the reason soon.
13:28 –
The reason for outage was a short but heavy DDoS attack.
13:44 – Our services are being hit again. The NOC team is mitigating the attack.
14:07 – The attack has been mitigated. Some measures were taken to reduce the impact.
28/04 – Everything is running stable since the last impact.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time


Outage: Fibercut between Liège and Antwerp

Dear customers,

Our fiber connection between Liège and Charleroi has been cut. All traffic has been rerouted.

We are currently investigating the latency issues.

Description: Fibercut between Liège and Charleroi
Start:
2014-04-21 10:00 AM*
End: ETR unknown.
Duration: N/A
Impacted services: Latency on internet services in the affected zones.
Impacted zones: 019, 04, 061, 063, 080, 081, 082, 083, 084, 085, 087

Updates
13:07:
The latency has been resolved. Fibercut has not been resolved yet.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time


Issue: Edpnet not reachable by phone

Dear customers,

Edpnet is currently experiencing problems with a number of inbound calls. We are working on resolving the issue. We will keep you posted.

UPDATE: The issues are now fixed.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team


Issue: Incoming and Outgoing mails

Dear customers,

We have received several mentions of mails that are not being sent by our mail relays. Our NOC team is currently investigating the issue. Mails are not lost and will be sent when the issue has been resolved.

Update: The issue seems to be impacting incoming mails as well.
Update 10:15: The issue has been resolved. The mails are being delivered again.
Update 14 apr: There has been a regression, our team is currently fixing the problem.
Update 16:57: All systems are stable. No more slowdowns have been detected.

We apologize for the inconvenience

The edpnet team

*All times are listed in CET, Central European Time