Network Outage: Preston Patrick, Heversham and Whittington, Thursday the 21st of January 2021 16:00 We are aware of an issue affecting the entirety of Preston Patrick and Heversham.  A small number of customers are also affected in Whittington.  Engineers are investigating.  Update 18:00.  Preston Patrick.  Normal service resumed.  If you are still experiencing issues please turn off your router and all internal network devices, such as powerline adapters and meshes. Turn the router back on and allow it to connect to the internet, then turn on your other network devices. If that does not resolve your connection issue, please contact our technical support team via email: helpdesk@b4rn.org.uk or by phone on 015242 38499.  Update 18:00. Heversham and Whittington. Engineers continue work to resolve issue at Heversham and Whittington. Update 18:20. Heversham Normal service resumed.  If you are still experiencing issues please turn off your router and all internal network devices, such as powerline adapters and meshes. Turn the router back on and allow it to connect to the internet, then turn on your other network devices. If that does not resolve your connection issue, please contact our technical support team via email: helpdesk@b4rn.org.uk or by phone on 015242 38499.  Update 18:20. Whittington. Engineers continue work to resolve issue at Whittington.

Network Outage: Silverdale and Yealand Conyers, Thursday the 21st of January 2021 10:30 We are aware of an issue affecting Silverdale and a small number of customers in Yealand Conyers.  Engineers are investigating.  Update 10:40.  Engineering teams are on their way to Silverdale. Update  11:29.  The location of the break has been identified.  Engineers are commencing works required to repair the break.  Update 14:00.  Service restored to Silverdale.  Engineers continue with splicing work to bring Yealand Conyers connections live. Update 14:20. Yealand Conyers connections starting to come live.  Update 14:50.  Normal service resumed.  If you are still experiencing issues please turn off your router and all internal network devices, such as powerline adapters and meshes. Turn the router back on and allow it to connect to the internet, then turn on your other network devices. If that does not resolve your connection issue, please contact our technical support team via email: helpdesk@b4rn.org.uk or by phone on 015242 38499.

Planned Engineering Works

Network Maintenance – Every Wednesday – 01:00 to 08:00 – This maintenance window is used to perform network operations such as router firmware upgrades, equipment replacement, security updates, minor cable replacements, and other small works with low impact. Any major works will be identified above and customers affected will be notified in advance.

B4RN DNS and NTP server IP addresses
NTP and DNS services on the following ip addresses, 5.83.8.5,  5.83.8.6,  5.83.8.10, ceased on Wednesday the 6th February 2019.
For B4RN DNS please use 185.201.32.254 and 148.252.16.254.
For B4RN NTP use ntp0.b4rn.org.uk and ntp1.b4rn.org.uk or 185.201.32.254 and 148.252.16.254 as appropriate for your system.