Is the NethSecurity update server on a break?

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Hey everyone!
Since this morning, my beloved NethSecurity firewall has been showing me a friendly notice: “Update server is under maintenance. Please try again later.”
Now, I know NethSecurity is rock-solid, but I didn’t know the update servers needed such a long coffee break! :hot_beverage::sweat_smile:

Does anyone know if there’s actually maintenance going on, or did the server decide to take a day off?
We NethSecurity users are a patient bunch, but an update every now and then wouldn’t hurt, right? :wink:

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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I took the enterprise distribution service offline to avoid updates. We spotted an issue with 8.7.0 due to a race condition at boot that could take dnsmasq down. Issue is resolved and a new image is being released.

Instead of fidgeting around with the files in the service, I sent the server straight to maintenance for the time being :grimacing:

It’s coming back online now.

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Thank you so much for the quick update! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I see the team never sleeps and acts with surgical precision! :laptop::high_voltage:

Thanks for saving us from a potential dnsmasq disaster and for your excellent work in resolving the race condition in record time! You’re all wizards! :man_mage::sparkles:

The server maintenance was a small price to pay for such an important fix. Keep up the amazing work, you’re awesome! :clap:

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Since it’s offline again, just giving a heads up:

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:white_check_mark: We are online again!

The issue affecting IPsec tunnels has been identified and fixed.
It is now safe to proceed with the upgrade to version 8.7.1.

:wrench: What to do

  • If you haven’t upgraded yet to version 8.7.1, you can now safely proceed with the update.

  • If you already upgraded yesterday (October 30, 2025) to version 8.7.1 simply click the “Check for fixes” button on the updates page to force the update.

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It’s strange, because I have two different nethsecurity devices on two different (and unrelated) networks. On the first one, yesterday I was able to update to version 8.7.0 without any problems, and today to 8.7.1.

On the second one, however, I had problems yesterday and had to reinstall Nethsecurity with version 8 24.10 and restore a backup I had made previously, because after the update it stopped working properly and I left users without internet for an hour.

Coincidentally, today when I tried to update this second machine, I still get the error message that appeared yesterday, when I assume you had shut down the update server, and I am unable to update that machine.

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I restarted the computer and logged back into the web interface. I also tried to update it using the command that fails via ssh, but without luck:
/usr/libexec/rpcd/ns.update call check-system-update

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perfect :wink:

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The machine where you’re experiencing issues, which version is it currently running?

If it’s running version 8.7, can you check whether it resolves names correctly?
If it doesn’t, try restarting the dnsmasq service with:

/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

than try again to update