Please be aware that there will be an urgent maintenance outage tonight between 23:00 and midnight to ensure that all of our systems are patched against the zero day IPv6 vulnerability.
Please make sure any colleagues working late are aware of this urgent maintenance outage.
Details on this issue, CVE-2024-38063, are published on The Register and at Microsoft.
Updates
23:01 Task started…
23:02 Inbound mail held on the Spam Safe Mail cluster.
23:20 Server “Charles” did not cleanly restart after a reboot. Working the problem through…
23:33 The problem with server “Charles” was down to an entry in /etc/fstab to a disc that no longer exists. This was a left over to a previous maintenance upgrade. Removed the entry and rebooted cleanly and “Charles” is now operational.
23:49 All inbound email now de-queued to server “Charles”.
23:53 All servers patched.
23:53 Task complete.
