Orbis Lumen Illuminating Your Interconnections

Customers may notice brief, intermittent outages of various services tonight, 24-October-2008, beginning at 23:00 PST as we upgrade servers to the newest Debian release.

Orb system services will experience brief interruptions tonight as servers are upgraded with new kernels.

Also, customer servers managed by Orbis Lumen will also be updated, experiencing similar brief outages, unless otherwise coordinated.

Customer systems have been upgraded with the newest version within Debian volatile of ClamAV.

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

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.

Customer servers still running the old 3.1 version of Debian have been updated with the latest security fixes.

Customers still running this old version of Debian and subscribed to our maintenance service will soon be notified that maintenance by Orbis Lumen for this older version will be discontinued.

Security upgrades are being performed on servers today which may result in very brief service outages for various components throughout the early evening.

Core servers are being updated with a security to the kernel, requiring reboots. This may cause certain network services to be unavailable for a very brief period of time this afternoon, none lasting more than 5 minutes.

Our webmail system using Horde3 has been updated with a new version to correct some security issues.

Please contact us if you notice any strange behavior.

Security update announcements for customers running Ubuntu workstations will no longer be announced here. Instead, updates will automatically occur within workstations without notification.