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Hurricane Electric Emergency DNS Maintenance

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I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too.

And an outage of their excellent 2FA system. Oh wait, they don’t have one.

Racing to bottom sucks for everyone…

What's the meaning of this negative commentary? Is HE known to be at the bottom? I have been using their DNS services for a decade and don't think I've ever experienced a problem. In fact I am impressed at what they offer for free.

Same here! Very happy with their free service, and they do support 2FA.

UI is minimal and gets everything done

They do indeed provide some excellent quality services to the public, without asking any payment in return. I love their BGP tools, among many others.

Yeah, same here. I've used HE tunnels and DNS for close to a decade myself and have zero complaints about the free public service they provide.

They provide a variety of free public services. I doubt the funding allocated for such projects is crazy high, and it likely rides on the backs of a few super talented engineers. Beggars can't be choosers. Were it a paid service then I could better understand your complaints. I'm willing to bet if you reached out to them, inquiring about the lack of any feature, then they would likely explain why it has yet to be implemented.

Last I checked, their actual colocation service (very much paid) had no 2FA.

> And an outage of their excellent 2FA system. Oh wait, they don’t have one.

They use TOPT or am I missing something?

"I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too."

All of my personal racks and (roughly) 1/5 of rsync.net have been inside the he.net core datacenter for 12 years.

I have never experienced a single power outage. Warm Springs datacenter.

Genuinely curious what you're talking about ?

Just guessing but they might be referring to their first datacenter in Fremont. No idea if it is even still around but their first DC was a hot mess. The newer one which is likely the one you are in was a night and day difference. The newer one had redundant power and networking and was built professionally. I say newer but this was a long time ago.

We colocated in both Fremont DCs for about 10 years. Their newer one had 2 power outages within a couple months when we were there (I think this was in 2009 or 2008). I don't remember why exactly it happened, but I think for at least one they had redundant power disconnected for reasons. Other than that we had no issues though.

But it's been about 7 years since we've colocated our servers there.

OK, thanks.

FWIW, I entered the (newer one) in 2010 and I have experienced zero power fluctuations in these 12 years.

I've had servers in FMT1 since 2000. They had a series of power issues. Generators didn't start and everything died. Next time the power went out the generator started and the switch from the grid to the generator blew out the switching system (and killed one of my hard drives and who knows what else) IIRC. I'm pretty sure Linode moved to FMT2 because of this. There have been other problems but around 10 years ago they reached a point where the whole power backup system was new and they have only had one outage that I can remember since then.

Specifically Fremont 1. I think we're at 4 power outages in the last 6 years.

The page has returned to their normal landing page, so I think service has been restored.

Anyone have an archive of the incident notice?

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/... DNS RCE

Does Hurricane Electric run Windows DNS Server ??

I'd highly doubt it, but could be wrong. Perhaps someone on their team might be able to give more details, through one medium or another.

https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00913

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