News and Updates

September 12, 2022 8:30pm – We’ve got to perform a small bit of maintenance on the mail server system which will interrupt connections for a brief time but will not result in any lost email.   We will be posting updates here.

Update 8:48pm – This maintenance has been completed.

August 3, 2022 – 6:15pm –  We experienced a service interruption as there were routing issues upstream of us.  This affected all services – phones, offsite backups, email, web hosting, etc.  The interruption started at about 5:00pm CDT and resolved itself at about 6:12pm.   We are continuing to monitor.  This issue is outside of our management area, and we are currently just able to work with upstream providers to troubleshoot.

Currently, this looks to be resolved as the routing has changed upstream – presumably to route around the troubled equipment or circuits.

Update 8:30pm – We had an additional disruption starting around 8:15pm.   This could be the routes resetting to the “normal” settings if the underlying issue has been fixed.  As of 8:30, everything seems OK, but we are continuing to monitor.

Update – August 4, 2022 – 6:45am – We have seen the issue return briefly a couple of times overnight.  Once around 1:15am and then a second time about 4:10am.  Each incident lasted approximately 15 minutes.  We still have an open ticket and are working to make sure the issue is properly fixed.

If you have any questions, please email us at support@internetpro.net.

July 20, 2022 – We have received some reports of users using Office 365 (Microsoft 365) services having trouble emailing our users.  The bounce back messages or non-delivery reports are stating that the issue is on the Microsoft side due to misconfigured PTR records.   A PTR record is similar to caller ID for computers. It allows one to look up the IP address and get a host name back.  Best practices state that this should be present for email delivery and in specific formats.  Here is an article about this for those of you who would like more information on it:  https://www.linuxmagic.com/best_practices/valid_ptr.html

It seems that Microsoft has made a change and is not following these practices at the moment.  We are looking into whether this is something that has been done by mistake and will be corrected or if they have done it on purpose for some reason.    We are currently very strict on PTR record validity because it does help us prevent spam.    Not all ISPs and email operators are as strict, so the Office 365 emails will go through to some addresses.    We will be posting updates on this as we have them.

Update 12:00pm – We have confirmed with our email vendor that this is a Microsoft issue that has been going on about 12 hours.  It is being discussed by the major email providers but Microsoft has not released a statement as yet, so there is not currently an estimated time to repair.

Update July 22 11:00am – We have not seen any statement from Microsoft on this, but have also not been seeing the issues continuing, so we do believe that Microsoft has corrected this on their end.  If you are still seeing the problem, please let us know by calling 256-547-6817 or emailing support@internetpro.net.

June 18, 2022 1:00pm – We are performing some required maintenance on the email system.  There will be some brief interruptions in client (email program) connectivity and webmail availability.  As part of this maintenance, we will also be performing some updates to security as well as usability including some modernizing of the webmail system.  No email will be lost, but there may be some slight delivery delays.  We’ll be posting updates here.  If you have any questions, please give us a call at 256-547-6817 as email to support@internetpro.net may be affected.

Update 1:50pm – This maintenance has been completed with very minimal interruption to customers.  If your email program had been left open during this maintenance, it is possible that it may prompt for a password.  Closing the email program and re-opening should resolve this.  As long as you do not enter a new password, the email program will remember the correct one which was being used.

Update 5:30pm – A customer notified us of an issue when connecting using SSL on port 465.   This was a result of our maintenance and has been corrected.

In initial testing, we are seeing a noticeable speedup in the web interfaces for our system.  In the coming months, we’ll be rolling out some additional features on the groundwork put in place today.   The older Tuxedo interface has now been replaced by the “New Tuxedo” version with more features and better performance.

If you have any questions or concerns about the work performed, please contact us at 256-547-6817 or email support@internetpro.net.

June 9, 2022 – We will be renewing a wildcard secure certificate today (*.internetpro.net).  This certificate protects/encrypts many pages and services including POP3, IMAP, SMTP, and web services on multiple servers.  There may be a brief interruption of these services as we load the new certificate.  This is a trusted certificate, so you should not get any errors during the process.  However, Apple devices sometimes do not handle certificate renewals well, so if you do get an error, please let us know by emailing support@internetpro.net, calling 256-547-6817, or using the chat window on this page.

We will post an update when the work is complete.

Update:  11:30am – This work has been completed.  We did not detect any issues or downtime at all.  Please let us know if you are experiencing issues which may be related.

May 2, 2022 – Today at approximately 6:30 PM we were notified by our monitoring systems that our datacenter was offline. After some troubleshooting we were able to determine that the cause of the issue was upstream with AT&T our Fiberoptic Internet Service Provider. We promptly opened a ticket with them reporting the outage.

Update 7:30 PM: Service has been restored and our datacenter is now back online. We are continuing to monitor the health of the circuit and await further details from regarding the source of the incident from AT&T.