Afrihost - Pure Fibre Feedback Thread Part 2

[wingnut771]

09:52 • 14 Sep 2025

Afrihost system and network engineers are working on an outage affecting all Fibre networks nationally. We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

What single point affects everyone nationally. Aliens?

 

[Seeyou]

What single point affects everyone nationally. Aliens?

Maybe the whole network runs on a single DHCP server and someone pulled the plug.

 

[13en]

We are seeing an impact on DHCP. ALL FNOs nationwide. Please do not reboot. We are aware of the issue, and our team is currently troubleshooting it.

Hi @Afrigirl FYI this is only affecting DHCP and not DHCPv6, the V6 stack is up. just noticed MYBB does not have AAAA records, have to use mobile hotspot to reach the site, MYBB support can you guys enable V6 on your site?

 

[waynehooper]

We are seeing an impact on DHCP. ALL FNOs nationwide. Please do not reboot. We are aware of the issue, and our team is currently troubleshooting it.

Already rebooted as well

 

[Afrigirl]

Please check now, it should be restored.

 

[JustJack]

Centurion back up!

Nope down again

 

[MakoPC]

Still down in PE

Please check now, it should be restored.

 

[AfriNatic]

We have disabled Metrofibre Gauteng as the broadcast storm is taking down our dhcp systems. Other FNO's should recover now.

We are still in a war room troubleshooting. Apologies for the issues.

 

[Rayne]

Still down KZN.

 

[Ferdi Faurie]

Please check now, it should be restored.

Still down Cape town

 

[Seeyou]

Cape Town, Octotel, still very much dead.

 

[Jinxy Jinx]

Down again in Pretoria East.

 

[wingnut771]

Please check now, it should be restored.

 

[wingnut771]

We have disabled Metrofibre Gauteng as the broadcast storm is taking down our dhcp systems. Other FNO's should recover now.

We are still in a war room troubleshooting. Apologies for the issues.

Does the war room consist of all fibre networks and ISPs?

 

[13en]

The Internet was partially up on MFN via the V6 stack, we're now completely offline

 

[Seeyou]

If you guys want, I have a spare Ubiquiti Edgerouter X I could probably set up as a DHCP server in less time than it's taken to fix this outage.

 

[joshsparkie]

Still dead in PE (FF)

 

[frost717]

I'm back up, PE/MFN

 

[Dido Dido]

Does this outage also effect Wireless LTE Internet. I am struggling with it in Durban.

 

[Rayne]

Still down KZN