2017-06-14 23:00 UTC: Service Affecting Firewall Maintenance

[Tom Haddon]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 04:36:00AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 01/06/2017, Tom Haddon <tom.haddon at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wednesday June 14th at 23:00 UTC we plan to perform some essential
> > maintenance on our Firewalls. We expect there to be a minute or two of
> > network
> > interruption as we update each firewall in turn, which may affect services
> > like Ubuntu mailing lists, Launchpad and the Ubuntu wiki. We expect to
> > complete this work by 00:00 UTC (1 hour later).
> >
> > The progress of the updates will be communicated by IRC in
> > #canonical-sysadmin
> > on Freenode by Paul Collins (IRC nick pjdc). Please report any issues you’re
> > seeing there.
> >
> > If you have any questions or comments please reach us in #canonical-sysadmin
> > on Freenode.
> >
> > Thanks, Tom
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> May we know, out of curiosity, what firewall software you are using?

It's an in-house developed system that uses ipset under the hood. It runs on
Ubuntu LTS and deployed using Juju. I'm afraid I can't share too much more 
about it than that, but hopefully that's useful.

Thanks, Tom

> For years, I had been using firestarter, on a firewall/gateway
> computer, but it is no longer supported, and I think it was running on
> Debian 5. It was running on a now obsolete version of Debian.
> 
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