We are currently experiencing some networking issues that may affect access to Dreamhost servers. The problem is being looked into at this time and we will post with updated information as soon as it becomes available.
UPDATE —
The problems with network have been solved. They problem turned out to be a large amount of dns traffic [...]
Network link between two of our facilities are having issues. This affects all dedicated customers and machines in the frisky cluster. Our Admins are diligently working towards resolving this issue. Please check back for future updates.
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The machine hornet is currently under a very large denial of service attack and it’s saturating our network to our LAX facility. Our network engineers are currently looking at the situation and should have a solution soon. We will post an update as soon as we have new information.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
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Comments: 32One of our file servers is getting rebooted. This may be causing slowness or downtime if your domains/email is on the spacey servers. No data was affected. You can verify if this affected you by checking your Account Status (Your Email Server) on the upper right side of the control panel.
We apologize for the inconvenience. [...]
We are currently experiencing severe packet loss between the Garland building and our LAX datacenter. This is affecting most dedicated server customers as well as all customers in the “frisky” cluster. This includes the following web servers:
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One of our file servers is getting rebooted due to IO and mount errors. Those errors may have caused (or are still causing) slowness or downtime if your domains/email is on the spacey servers. No data was affected. You can verify if this affected you by checking your Account Status (Your Email Server) on the [...]
We just had a drop in our network for about half our servers.. if you can’t access your site or email now, please hold on.. we are looking into it and will update this page as soon as we have more details..
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We’re still actively trying to diagnose and fix the problem.. it seems to [...]
Comments: 135It appears that I, in a stroke of brilliance, mis-pasted the same IP addresses into both of our core routers. This caused an effective bridging loop as both of our routers fought for the ip address. This pegged their CPUs and the uplink between them. We have removed the offending IP addresses and the system [...]
Update: We’re all done with the upgrade. The available bandwidth between facilities is now 3x greater than it was before, with the ability to double the current amount at a moment’s notice. We hope this takes care of all of the recent issues.
We’re upgrading the network very soon so that we can [...]
Updated: We believe we’ve figured out the cause of these brief outages and are implementing a permanent fix right now. We’ll be keeping a close eye on the issues, but we’re fairly certain that we’ve worked out the issue.
We’ve encountered a few brief network outages today (lasting 1-5 minutes each). We have [...]
