Archive for the 'Network Outages' Category

Major Outage

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago (October 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pm PST)

We are currently experiencing what seems to be a system wide outage. We’ll post more information here as soon as we have it.
Update: Things seem to be working again, we apologize for the outage.

Secondary name server experiencing packet loss

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago (October 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 pm PST)

The colocation facility that houses our secondary name server, ns2.dreamhost.com is currently experiencing some network problems, causing some servers to appear down, or unavailable.
We’re currently working with our provider to fix this issue, and will post more information as soon as we’re updated by by their command center.
–UPDATE– Tue Oct 23 22:59:36 PDT […]

Network Issue

Posted 7 months ago (October 17th, 2007 at 12:08 pm PST)

One of our core routers is dropping about half of its packets at the moment. Our admin staff is working very hard to resolve this problem right now. This will cause outages and slowdowns for the majority of our customers.
We apologize for the inconvenience this is causing. We will post again when we have more […]

Network Issues causing downtime and slowness

Posted 8 months ago (September 17th, 2007 at 2:49 pm PST)

We are currently seeing some network issues that are causing downtime and slowness to one cage in one of our datacenters. We are actively investigating the issue now and will update this post as soon as we have further information. Sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you, we will have everything working […]

RESOLVED! DNS caching server is offline…

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago (September 1st, 2007 at 10:27 am PST)

One of our DNS caching servers has gone offline and this may cause problems on our network. We’re on the case! Please check back for further updates.
Update: A backup caching server is letting the one that took a dive have a nap. The network issues should be resolving themselves now. If […]

Network Problems - router issues persist

Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago (August 27th, 2007 at 12:14 pm PST)

Sorry about the network problems. As has been documented on DreamHost status we have been dealing with network issues lately. We are on top of this problem right now and we’re working on getting things back up for you. We are in continued contact with Cisco support and we have outstanding tickets […]

Networking Problems

Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago (August 22nd, 2007 at 1:36 am PST)

We are currently experiencing networking problems similar to the one on August 16th, 2007. It is being worked on at this time and should be fixed asap. We apologize for the inconvenience
UPDATE - The networking issues have been solved for the time being but this post will be left open pending a more permanent […]

RESOLVED Network Problems

Posted 9 months ago (August 16th, 2007 at 2:36 pm PST)

Unfortunately we are experiencing a return of similar network problems that we experienced yesterday. Please keep your eye on this post as we will update it as soon as we have more information. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- UPDATE -
The problem has been tracked down to a naughty switch and has been resolved. Due […]

RESOLVED LAX connectivity issues

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago (August 13th, 2007 at 11:43 am PST)

We are currently experiencing some difficulty with our network links to our LAX datacenter. This is causing issues with the swarthy, looney, and frisky clusters, as well as dedicated servers.
Our network engineers are looking into this and we will have a resolution as soon as possible.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Update: 11:58am PST: Our dns caching […]

Network Problems

Posted 12 months ago (May 21st, 2007 at 1:52 pm PST)

We are currently dealing with network issues that are causing some downtime for some of our servers. The problem involves the private network between web/mail servers with their file servers. This appears to be affecting all clusters on some level. We are fixing everything now so some issues have cleared up and […]