Key: Green – Online / Orange – Recently recovered from a fault or issue / Red – Offline

26/1/22 Wednesday 11.30 am: Network issue affecting a small number of customers at Low Bentham. Engineers are on their way to investigate. Update 1.30pm Engineers are organising remedial work and repairs should be completed tomorrow morning. Customers have been contacted if their connections are affected.

Network Issues:  Thursday 13/1/2022 12:00: We are aware of an issue affecting some customers:  This may present as a loss of service or inability to reach specific web pages of services.  Network engineers are working to isolate the cause of the issue.  Update 13:30:  Normal Service Resumed

Network Issues: Calder vale, Chipping, Dunsop Bridge, Goosnargh, Nether Wyresdale and Slaidburn Thursday 13/1/2022 10:35 We are aware of an issue affecting customers in the following areas:  Calder Vale, Chipping, Dunsop Bridge, Goosnargh, Nether Wyresdale and Slaidburn.  Engineers are investigating. Update 11:10:  Normal resumed

Information on recent outages and scheduled works can be found here.

Many of you may be aware that we have been carrying out a lot of work which has involved changing the IP address of your B4RN connection on the internet. This work has gone well but every now and then we are seeing external sites that are not recognising some of the IP addresses as being registered in the United Kingdom. All our addresses are correctly registered within the UK and have been for some time. The issue will be that the specific site has not updated its geolocation information. If you do come across a site or service that is not recognising that you are in the UK then please e-mail helpdesk@b4rn.org.uk with the site name and your IPv4 address. We will then get in contact with the site administrators so they can make the necessary changes.

This should only be affecting IPv4 addresses starting 149. To find your IPv4 address you can go to http://www.whatsmyip.org

Network Maintenance – Every Tuesday and Thursday – 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.