All systems are operational

Past Incidents

Saturday 29th October 2016

No incidents reported

Friday 28th October 2016

No incidents reported

Thursday 27th October 2016

No incidents reported

Wednesday 26th October 2016

No incidents reported

Tuesday 25th October 2016

No incidents reported

Monday 24th October 2016

No incidents reported

Sunday 23rd October 2016

Dirty Cow kernel upgrades, scheduled 9 years ago

Given the severity of the Dirty Cow vulnerability and variants that are and are not effective against different variants of RedHat Enterprise Linux, which we use, all servers are undergoing a proactive kernel upgrade this afternoon. Expect a < 5 minute outage for newer generation servers (v6+) and a 10-15 minute outage for older generation (pre v6) servers. Luna has already been upgraded, so no further action will be taken on Luna.

3:38 PM EDT - maintenance window concluded

Apollo Apollo outage, scheduled 9 years ago

Apollo outage, investigating...

1:00 PM EDT - Apollo back up, stemmed from live testing of a variant of the Dirty Cow exploit. Not successfully leveraged, but does induce a kernel panic. Upgrading kernels on all servers...