Welcome

bfb.asn.au is dedicated to providing Internet services to volunteer bush fire brigades in Australia. These services include:

  • sub-domains of bfb.asn.au
  • email hosting
  • web hosting
  • advice for station ITS setup

If you're interested in obtaining any of these free services for your brigade, please contact us.

bfb.asn.au is operated by Sawyers Valley Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade, with the assistance of Diskworld, for the benefit of all volunteer bush fire brigades.

Email services unscheduled outage - 2013-03-07

Unfortunately, once again the server which hosts the BFB.asn.au email services is temporarily offline. The upstream provider has been contacted and a resoluion is expected within 24 hours.

The following services are effected:

  • Receiving email (IMAP)
  • Sending email (SMTP)
  • Webmail
  • Mailing lists
  • Some hosted brigade websites

Updates on this outage will be provided as more information becomes available. Any queries please contact BFB.asn.au.

Email services unscheduled outage (resolved)

The server which hosts the BFB.asn.au email services is temporarily offline. The upstream provider has been contacted and a resoluion is expected within 24 hours.

The following services are effected:

  • Receiving email (IMAP)
  • Sending email (SMTP)
  • Webmail
  • Mailing lists
  • Some hosted brigade websites

Updates on this outage will be provided as more information becomes available. Any queries please contact BFB.asn.au.

Update - 9/01/2012

The upstream service provider has rectified the fault effecting the mail server's network connection. All services should now be accessible.

BFB.asn.au will investigate ways to further strengthen it's infrastructure and mitigate future outages.

SSL Certificate

BFB.asn.au has purchased a single SSL certificate, for use on the sercure.bfb.asn.au domain name. Work is underway to migrate all services to use this domain name where appropriate. Special care is being taken to minimise the discruption to users during this migration, and hopefully all users will not see any difference in service.

Services already migrated are:

In the near future, the email services will also be migrated to use the secure.bfb.asn.au domain, including IMAP and SMTP. Currently, very few users make use of the IMAP and SMTP services, so impact is expected to be minimal.

Anyone experiencing problems with these, or any other bfb.asn.au services, should contact us.

Administration Upgrades

Upgrade work has recently be completed on the authentication and administration services of bfb.asn.au. This upgrade work will allow easier maintenance of the administration database, as well as provide a simpler interface for individual brigade and domain administrators to administer email accounts.

The new admin interface can be found at https://admin.bfb.asn.au/. Existing admin usernames and passwords should work, although if administrators have issues accessing the system, please contact us.

Users are able to maintain their own accounts through the User Admin interface, located at https://admin.bfb.asn.au/users/. Through this interface users will be able to change their password. Additional features will be added in the future.

In addition to the administration upgrades, the webmail system has been upgraded to the latest version of the RoundCube software. New features include the ability of users to reset their password from within the interface.

Some users of the webmail system may find their address-books are missing. These should be imported from the old system shortly.

If users or domain and brigade administrators come across any issues with the new system they are encouraged to contact us.

Mail Stability Improvements

Recently the IMAP email service has suffered from periodic instability, including total loss of service to users.

Active monitoring of the IMAP service, as well as all other services provided or used by the BFB.asn.au servers, as been setup. This will improve the fault tolerance and system availability of the email and other services.

If you have any questions regarding the email service, or anything else that BFB.asn.au may be able to do for you brigade, please contact us.

Scheduled Maintenance - 24/05/2009

The provider hosting the bfb.asn.au mail server has notified us of a scheduled maintenance, expected this weekend.

During the maintenance, bfb.asn.au mail services will be unavailable. This includes, smtp, imap and webmail, as well as the mailing lists.

The maintenance is scheduled to start at 07:00, 24/05/2009 and is expected to be completed by 11:00 the same day.

If you have any questions, please contact Adrian.

Upgrade Successful

Tonight's system upgrade has been completed successfully. The mail server side of bfb.asn.au is now running Debian Lenny. Additionally, some configuration packaging was performed. This will make deploying new mail servers a trivial process in the future. The webmail system was also upgraded to the latest stable release of RoundCube.

Focus will now switch to upgrading and reimplementing the mailing list system.

If you come across any issues with the bfb.asn.au email services, please contact us.

Minor Outage tonight

There will be a minor outage the bfb.asn.au email system tonight, while upgrade work is performed.

This work will allow some extra features to be enabled for users as well as simplify the administration interface.

The work is expected to go ahead around 00:00 tonight. More information will be posted here at the completion of the work.

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