SSLv3 vulnerability
With the recent vulnerability in SSLv3 (POODLE attacks) I’m currently lookint into disabling SSLv3. This shouldn’t effect anything but really old clients.
Service Status
SSL certificate changes
[Update 04/01/2014] Have switched over to new certificates. You should not get any errors about “self-signed certificates” any more and there should be no further interruptions of service. I’m replacing the SSL certificates on both jabber.org.uk and xmpp.org.uk. This is to replace old self-signed certificate with certificates from a CA (Certificate Authority). It should eliminate Read More …
Stability issues & upgrades
Service stability: I’ve been having some issues with the stability of the server, this seems to be down to the connection between ejabberd and the database server (were user accounts are kept). I’ve been unable to resolve this problem but I have been doing my best to keep an eye on the server Software upgrades: Read More …
DNS Issues
We experienced some DNS issues this morning which meant that users were unable to contact other off-site Jabber/XMPP contacts. This has now been resolved and should be working.
Server downtime
I’m afraid the server died early Sunday morning and attempts to get it working did not succeed. The machine has been rebuild and Jabber services have been resumed. Configuration has been restored and no data should have been lost.