As of 10.50 we believe that the local network issues affecting many Kent IT services have been resolved, however, all services should be considered ‘at risk’ for the rest of today.

Network connections to and from campus continue to be affected at times due to ongoing issues which appear to be repeated denial of service attacks on the JANET network which connects us to the internet. We believe that other Universities are similarly affected.

The knock-on effect of this is that students may be finding access to email difficult or impossible, whether they are on or off campus. They may find access to some other services, including Library Search difficult even from on campus. Students working away from campus may have difficulty accessing any of our services.

JANET are continuing to investigate and mitigate the issue with the highest priority. We will send a further update when a clearer picture emerges, however for now, we are unable to give an estimate of how long the issue will persist.