openembedded.net status?

openembedded.net status?

[Koen Kooi]

Hi,

Is anyone actually working to get it running again, and if so, why is it 
taking so *$($*(@$*(@ long?

Re: openembedded.net status?

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 13:47:26 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> if so, why is it taking so *$($*(@$*(@ long?

No idea. That's the drawback of using donated services. The one in charge of 
colocation is not in germany right now, according to him he notified the 
computing centre, but i have yet to get an update from them. Since I don't 
even have an account at the computing centre, it's a bit tough for me to put 
pressure on those guys.

I know it's always annoying when a server goes down, but this arrangement was 
the best we could do and it worked well until now, so let's not freak out and 
hope it's coming back soon.

What about all the server offers we had in the past years, btw.? Was anything 
really accomplished there? If so, where are these servers, we should work on 
a mirroring system.

Chees,

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Re: openembedded.net status?

[Koen Kooi]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 13:47:26 schrieb Koen Kooi:
>> if so, why is it taking so *$($*(@$*(@ long?
>
> No idea. That's the drawback of using donated services. The one in charge of
> colocation is not in germany right now, according to him he notified the
> computing centre, but i have yet to get an update from them. Since I don't
> even have an account at the computing centre, it's a bit tough for me to put
> pressure on those guys.

Thanks, that clears things up a bit. All I knew that is was down and 
that there were no messages what happened and what steps are being taken 
to fix it.

Isn't there a remote powerswitch that can get flipped like strato has?

> I know it's always annoying when a server goes down, but this arrangement was
> the best we could do and it worked well until now, so let's not freak out and
> hope it's coming back soon.

Can we point DNS back to ltg in the meantime? Having a page saying we're 
down is way better than having all website timeout.

regards,

Koen

Re: openembedded.net status?

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 14:38:16 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 13:47:26 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> >> if so, why is it taking so *$($*(@$*(@ long?
> >
> > No idea. That's the drawback of using donated services. The one in charge
> > of colocation is not in germany right now, according to him he notified
> > the computing centre, but i have yet to get an update from them. Since I
> > don't even have an account at the computing centre, it's a bit tough for
> > me to put pressure on those guys.
>
> Thanks, that clears things up a bit. All I knew that is was down and
> that there were no messages what happened and what steps are being taken
> to fix it.
>
> Isn't there a remote powerswitch that can get flipped like strato has?

There is probably, but I don't have an account there. Once Harald is back, 
I'll do the necessary things to prepare a better response time if that may 
happen again.

Then again, the traceroute indicates it's not the machine that's not 
responding (80.81.242.146), but rather some router craashed within the 
computing centre. So even a powerswitch would not help in that case.

> Can we point DNS back to ltg in the meantime? Having a page saying we're
> down is way better than having all website timeout.

I just pointed it back, but ltg needs to claim oe.net in apache2 and redirect 
to oe.ltg.org, otherwise we only get the main page.

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Re: openembedded.net status?

[Philip Balister]

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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:

> What about all the server offers we had in the past years, btw.? Was anything 
> really accomplished there? If so, where are these servers, we should work on 
> a mirroring system.

My recollection of the other server offers is they involved carting 
machines from point A to point B and we couldn't figure out how to do 
this without someone spending more money than it would cost to pay for 
hosting somewhere :(

Philip

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Re: openembedded.net status?

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:22 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 13:47:26 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> > if so, why is it taking so *$($*(@$*(@ long?
> 
> No idea. That's the drawback of using donated services. The one in charge of 
> colocation is not in germany right now, according to him he notified the 
> computing centre, but i have yet to get an update from them. Since I don't 
> even have an account at the computing centre, it's a bit tough for me to put 
> pressure on those guys.
> 
> I know it's always annoying when a server goes down, but this arrangement was 
> the best we could do and it worked well until now, so let's not freak out and 
> hope it's coming back soon.
> 
> What about all the server offers we had in the past years, btw.? Was anything 
> really accomplished there? If so, where are these servers, we should work on 
> a mirroring system.

This doesn't help now but I've just set things in motion to totally
change my internet connectivity. Once that is done I should have a high
bandwidth ADSL line with static IPs I can put servers on the end of. I'm
more than happy to run a backup/mirror there which we can switch in to
replace the main server in circumstances like this.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: openembedded.net status?

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Fwiw, my call to the computing centre seemed to have worked.

Amethyst is back again.

Richard, I think once we have a full mirror of it (synced daily or so), we 
should be fine in terms of redundance. Do you have any ETA for your new 
network?

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Re: openembedded.net status?

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:28 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Fwiw, my call to the computing centre seemed to have worked.
> 
> Amethyst is back again.

Great news. Do we know what went wrong?

> Richard, I think once we have a full mirror of it (synced daily or so), we 
> should be fine in terms of redundance. Do you have any ETA for your new 
> network?

I'm guessing about 2 weeks. I could do something in the meantime but
since I know the setup is going to change I'd prefer to wait until after
thats happened.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: openembedded.net status?

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 17:00:10 schrieb Richard Purdie:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:28 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Fwiw, my call to the computing centre seemed to have worked.
> >
> > Amethyst is back again.
>
> Great news. Do we know what went wrong?

Not really. The computing centre claimed they have "restarted" it, which is 
clearly bogus given its 10 days uptime. traceroute inspection rather makes me 
suspect they had a faulty router which they've replaced or restarted.

>
> > Richard, I think once we have a full mirror of it (synced daily or so),
> > we should be fine in terms of redundance. Do you have any ETA for your
> > new network?
>
> I'm guessing about 2 weeks. I could do something in the meantime but
> since I know the setup is going to change I'd prefer to wait until after
> thats happened.

Sure. Sounds good.

Cheers,
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Re: openembedded.net status?

[Rod Whitby]

Mickey wrote:
>What about all the server offers we had in the past years, btw.? Was anything 
>really accomplished there? If so, where are these servers, we should work on 
>a mirroring system.

The nslu2-linux.org project offered a shared server arrangement on our redundantly provisioned Xen machines at OSUOSL back then, and the offer still stands.

We could bring up an instance for *.openembedded.net in a matter of hours ... just contact Tom King (ka6sox).

-- Rod