Users may experience brief and intermittent service outages beginning at 01:00 Friday Aug 22 as servers are updated.

The upgrades should not take more than 30 minutes to complete.

All Orb Debian servers will be updated to the latest revision of Debian today. Very brief service outages of one form or another might be noticed during this upgrade process.

Customer DNS servers administered by Orbis Lumen have been updated with a security fix.

Our main servers will be upgraded with security fixes to the kernels this morning. Brief partial outages may be noticed.

Customer systems will be upgraded overnight Wednesday 11 June.

A power outage caused a short interruption in service in the early evening of June 9. We were running on backup generators until power was restored early in the morning 10 June.

Kernel updates will be applied to all Orb servers tomorrow morning at 0200. Updates will be spread out so any loss of service will be minimal and brief.

Customers running Debian servers or their derivatives are vulnerable to a security flaw in Debian's implementation of the OpenSSL cryptographic subsystem.

We will be providing immediate updates and fixes to customer systems at no charge to address these vulnerabilities.

If Orbis Lumen manages your systems, these updates will occur without your intervention. Otherwise, please contact us to receive your fixes.

All Orbis Lumen servers are currently being updated with security fixes to the cryptographic libraries of OpenSSL.

These updates address critical security vulnerabilities and are being applied without scheduling downtime in advance.

This will result in brief service outages over the next hour.

Due to the insane amount of spam being generated lately, and the fact that many spammers choose to relay through backup MX servers instead of primary mail servers directly, all Orb backup MX servers are now consulting real-time blackhole lists to deny email relaying from known or suspected spam relays.

Please contact us if you would prefer your backup mail handling bypassing blackhole lists.

Customers using Orbis Lumen servers for tertiary MX or DNS servers should be aware that we have just rebuilt the server.