Re: [ANNOUNCE] netfilter.org systems downtime

["Herbert G. Fischer" <herbert@trama.com>]

I'm very sorry...

I never saw a Linux system become unavailable on 3 days like this...

This appears to be the Murphy's Laws...

Yesterday I was doing a new firewall and I found no netfilter.org mirror
working. Not even netfilter.samba.org was working correctly... lots of 404s.

I also never heard of a workshop that worked 24 hours during some 
days... Maybe some SMS cellphone warnings could monitor some systems...

This problem have something to do with hardware related problems ??? 
Power breakdown ???

Sorry...

Indeed... if you need some help... here I'm

Herbert



Harald Welte wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Due to an unfortunate event [*] the main netfilter.org system had become
> unavailable from Aug 19 to Aug 22.   
> 
> The long downtime was caused by the netfilter developer workshop, which
> distracted the netfilter developers from doing any system
> administration.
> 
> This caused all @netfilter.org mail addresses, the mailinglist, CVS,
> rsync, ftp and www access to be unavailable.
> 
> I have now migrated the www, ftp, rsync, anoncvs and mail services to
> different machines.  However, bugzilla.netfilter.org and CVSweb as well
> as the list archives will remain unavailable until the replacement
> server is activated.
> 
> The replacement server will be in place at some point this evening/night
> and should be up by midnight GMT.
> 
> All your pending emails will be delivered, since we have plenty of backup 
> MX'es.
> 
> We are sorry for the inconvenience, but assure you that we are doing
> everything we can to minimize downtime.
> 
> Special thanks to Florian Sippel <fun@noris.net> and Alexander Ruff
> <ruff@exodus.franken.de>, who are taking care of physically replacing
> the servers (hosted 500km away from my current location).
> 
> [*] We will provide more details about the exact type of event soon
>