We were briefly under a denial of service attack around 5:30PM April 23rd, 2020.

     After performing upgrades here, I am getting many reports of people not being able to connect to mail.eskimo.com or to a shell server because of TLS or SSL negotiations failing.

     This is caused because OLD encryption protocols which have been compromised have been eliminated from the newest software on this end and replaced with newer encryption protocols.  If your software has ONLY the OLD protocols, it will fail to connect.

     Before calling or initiating a ticket, please be sure that your software is completely up to date.  On a Mac, pull down the Mac Apple and choose Update Software and let it run to completion.  On Windows use the Check for Updates function and install any outstanding updates.  On Linux, as root, type: “apt update; apt full-upgrade; apt autoremove –purge” (without the quotations).  Answer questions regarding restarting services with a y enter.

     Mail is upgraded to 20.04, this time successfully but I still have not fixed DKIM / DMARC, will work on that later this evening.

     The client mail server ‘mail.eskimo.com’ is in the process of upgrading again.  It failed last night but I think I know what I did wrong.  It will be unavailable to send mail or receive mail via imap or pop-3 or webmail until completed later this evening.  You may read mail via shell mailers like alpine but you can not send mail from shell presently.

     Ubuntu is now back online with Focal 20.04 release.  I’m still doing a bit of clean-up but it should be stable and usable at this point.

     I am going to make a second attempt at upgrading the mail server starting at around 6PM tonight.  I believe I know what I did wrong to cause it to fail the first time.  If all goes well there will be only minimal downtime (a minute or so to reboot).  If all doesn’t go well there will be 45 minutes or so to restore from backups again.

     Ubuntu is still in the process of upgrading.  Probably another two hours or so to go, around 6PM I am estimating.  The 20.04 upgrade is large, over 6280 packages to be upgraded and close to 1000 to install.

     Ubuntu is out of service owing to an upgrade that blew up.  It is in the progress of updating still.  In the meantime please use one of the other available shell servers listed here:

     https://www.eskimo.com/services/shells/servers/

     Debian, Mint, Julinux, and Zorin are all based on similar code and will have most of the same applications available.

     Mail is back up however there is something wrong with either opendkim, opendmarc, or both, so for now these features are temporarily disabled.

     Our mail server, mail.eskimo.com, is temporarily out of service owing to a failed upgrade.  I am working on reverting back to the previous software.  Estimated restoral time approximately 3AM Pacific Standard Time.