<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 style="color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><small style="display: block; color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-weight: normal;" class="">AFRINIC Status</small><br class="">[Ongoing] WHOIS minor, but urgent change on production</h1><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We have an urgent need to roll back one small part of the last major upgrade done last week.</p><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This rollback will make no change to external access to the WHOIS database, either for queries or updates. It corrects a regression issue affecting only AFRINIC staff internally.</p><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">However the change does require the production, external services to be restarted.</p><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Query nodes will be done as a rolling change, taken out of service one by ones, and so will not create any interruption in service at all.</p><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The update master node will have an outage of 2 or 3 minutes, which we believe should not be effectively noticeable.</p><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Nevertheless apologies for any inconvenience.</p><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(This deployment will occur within the next 20 minutes.)</p><p class="m_-8109144633555096775mc-template-text-muted" align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(148, 148, 148); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted 6 September 2017 @ 12:18PM UTC</p><hr class="m_-8109144633555096775mc-template-hr" style="border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p align="left" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 55, 59); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a class="m_-8109144633555096775mc-template-link" href="http://afrinic.us16.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=21c6aea56e4a01ac62c2825dc&id=80817eaefc&e=9bad309c82" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://afrinic.us16.list-manage1.com/track/click?u%3D21c6aea56e4a01ac62c2825dc%26id%3D80817eaefc%26e%3D9bad309c82&source=gmail&ust=1504786771717000&usg=AFQjCNFzBicB1ZMwOH1Z5-th9S_O9sTNFA" style="color: rgb(41, 128, 185);">View our status page →</a></p></body></html>