Today is the 11 March 2010. our network status is: No issues known
17/02/10 Sheduled Maintenance
Date: 17th Feb 2010
Time: 01:00 to 01:30 NZDT.
There may be brief disruptions to Satellite and Dialup services due to network maintenance.
Area Affected: All in New Zealand.
Maintenance Duration: 0.5 hours
Historical Events
14/01/10 Sheduled Outage
Date: 15th Jan 2010 and 16th Jan 2010
Time: 04:00 to 06:00 NZDT.
There may be brief disruptions to Satellite and Dialup services due to upstream provider maintenance.
Area Affected: All in New Zealand.
Maintenance Duration: 2 hours
11/01/10 Hoax Email - Please ignore the email below, it is not from Farmside
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Sent: Saturday, 9 January 2010 11:23 a.m.
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Subject: For the owner of the
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Dear user of the farmsideltd.co.nz mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
Best regards, farmsideltd.co.nz Technical Support.
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08/10/10 Sheduled Outage
IPSTAR will be performing an emergency maintenance work on the AKL Gateway. This maintenance work will result in terminals not being able to log on. Once the maintenance is complete, all terminals will be able to log on.
The details on the emergency maintenance timeframes are listed as below.
Start Date: Friday 08/01/2010 Start Time: 00:30 AM (NZ Time)
Finish Date: Friday 08/01/2010 Finish Time: 03:30 AM (NZ Time)
Services Affected: All in New Zealand.
Maintenance Duration: 3 hours
03/12/09 12:30pm Heavy rain in Auckland
There is very heavy rain in Auckland causing some interference with some satellite customers
24/11/09 8:30 am The power is out in the main office In Timaru
All power is out in Timaru. This affects the phone system and our customer support centre. Some legacy Web hosting customers may also be affected. It is expected to be resolved around 11am.
24/11/09 9:30 am The power is back on in the main office In Timaru
12/11/09 8:30 am Email login issues
Some customers are reporting e-mail issues while attempting to login. We ask that users check they they are using their full e-mail address as their username in their e-mail setting eg ' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ' and not just 'fred'.
12/11/09 1:00 am Scheduled maintenance (Information)
On Thursday the 12th at 1am various maintenance events have been scheduled. This includes E-mail server relocation and database relocation. Both E-mail and authentication services may be briefly affected.
20/10/09 1:00 pm Phishing email (Information)
The following email may be sent to Farmside mail users, this is a hoax email. We are aware of this email, please delete this email and do not reply to it or click on the link.
- Original Message -
From: tech-admin
Sent: 20 October 2009 1:45 a.m.
To:
Subject: Mail server upgrade
Attention!
On October 22, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole.
For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.
http://updates.farmsideltd.co.nz.secure.usaadmin.net/core/id=712890809320-patch9025347.aspx
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.
System Administrator
10/01/10 8:30am E-mail address Harvest Attempt
Over the weekend a number of e-mail addresses where sent and e-mail that claims to be from This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and attempting to get customers to click on a link to upgrade their e-mail security settings. This e-mail is a fake e-mail, it was not from Farmside and you should not click on the link.
