Compusult Pty Ltd incident

Widespread DNS Outage

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Compusult Pty Ltd experienced a major incident on December 30, 2020 affecting Dedicated Web Server and Compusult Nameservers and 1 more component, lasting 1h 57m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Dec 30, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 31, 2020, 01:12 AM UTC
Duration
1h 57m
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 30, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

Affected components

Dedicated Web ServerCompusult NameserversCompusult Yak - Client PortalUniFi ControllerDNS - Nameserver Replication

Update timeline

  1. identified Dec 30, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

    We are currently aware of a widespread DNS outage that is causing issues with both website access and email flow. This issue has been escalated to the relevant service providers and is being treated as a priority one job. Further updates will follow as soon as an estimate remediation time is known.

  2. monitoring Dec 30, 2020, 11:38 PM UTC

    We have been advised that the DNS outage cause has been identified and remediated. Third party provider technicians are currently inspecting historical logs in order ensure the issue is fully resolved and does not resurface. We will continue to monitor the situation and hope to close this issue off shortly. All related services are responding, however we have listed them with "Degraded Performance" whilst this issue is finalised.

  3. resolved Dec 31, 2020, 01:12 AM UTC

    We are seeing no further errors on the DNS server and the issue is considered resolved. Precautionary maintenance works will be conducted on the server, however no interruption to service will be required to complete these works. All services are showing normal levels of performance and have been marked "Operational".