Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Control of the LIR Subnets Assumed
As of this morning, FurrIX has assumed control of what was MFN’s
subnets. WHOIS and operational information has been updated, but
name server zones for PTR will have to be updated as time permits.
We are also in the process of redoing our agreement with MFN to
ensure that they can transition to a nested environment and stay
operational as a community web and game server host.
As part of the network changeovers, FurrIX is looking to renumber
and reconfigure the network as well as creating full documentation
of how each router, subnet and member connection is configured and
maintained.
We will release more information as plans finalize.
Updating Records
Half awake in the NOC because I can’t sleep, so I’m taking some
time this morning to work on some of our networking records and
to bring the zone files for FurrIX up to date.
Shouldn’t affect anything in our routing gear.
- Adrian
Monday, February 23, 2026
Influx of DNS Traffic
It appears that overnight, our name servers experienced levels of traffic that
our network has not seen before. The request rate reached up to 800+ request
per second incoming and our internal tooling failed to send emails or alert us
via Discord that anything had happened.
It looks like a bunch of VPS instances from a provider over in the Netherlands
started performing mass lookups for a crypto exchange and this traffic was
sustained for quite a while during the night, as our network graphs are showing
and that our 500MB log file limit on both name servers was exhausted.
Our team will be looking into our rate limit configurations and possibly
re-configuring the IDS on our routers to be a little more proactive on alerting
us to conditions like what happened last night.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Releasing Domains and Ongoing Amplification Attacks
FurrIX has chosen not to renew the domains ‘birb.rest’ and ‘avali.rest’ for cost reasons.
These domains are not a core part of our network stack and were only used for personal
splash pages and a handful of user subdomains that have not seen lookups in some time.
This should not affect our operations, or that our members, in any meaningful way.
We are also dealing with a DNS amplification attack that is abusing ANY queries and will be
temporarily dropping any IP address that cross over 40 request per second until the incoming
traffic targeting the domains starts to ease up. This has been going on for several hours and
we are working to limit the amount of traffic crossing or originating from our network.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Getting Ready to Take Over Name Servers
The FurrIX NOC is getting ready to take our the name servers from
Marbled Fennec Networks. This move will place the name servers
into FurrIX control and add them into our workflow directly instead
of having to go through MFN for changes and updates.