[ANNOUNCE] netfilter.org systems downtime

[ANNOUNCE] netfilter.org systems downtime

[Harald Welte]

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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

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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  "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
   on while IP was being designed."                    -- Paul Vixie

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] netfilter.org systems downtime

[Herbert G. Fischer]

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
> 

Re: [netfilter-core] Re: [ANNOUNCE] netfilter.org systems downtime

[Rusty Russell]

In message <3F4633AE.8010801@trama.com> you write:
> I also never heard of a workshop that worked 24 hours during some 
> days... Maybe some SMS cellphone warnings could monitor some systems...

Well, Harald wanted to stay back at the hotel on the last day of the
workshop while the rest of us went sightseeing, and we dragged him
away.  There are plenty of other sources for the software, and he
deserved the break.  If he hadn't we would have all had to stay
behind, and I wanted to sightsee 8)

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

Re: [netfilter-core] Re: [ANNOUNCE] netfilter.org systems downtime

[Maciej Soltysiak]

> Well, Harald wanted to stay back at the hotel on the last day of the
> workshop while the rest of us went sightseeing,
I hope you were taking pictures and they will be published.
It's for tiny, little, old, hackers, great-hackers wannabies like me to at
least see on the monitor screen the faces of THE Hackers =8-)

Regards,
Maciej

Re: [netfilter-core] Re: [ANNOUNCE] netfilter.org systems downtime

[Harald Welte]

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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:15:58PM -0300, Herbert G. Fischer wrote:
> I'm very sorry...

> 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.

http://netfilter.gnumonks.org is always up-to-date.

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

I was aware of the downtime.  The problem was just that I'd rather meet
with the coreteam to discuss further develeopment (which is a once-every
two year opportunity) than fixing a broken server.

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

no.

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

thanks, we're fine now.

> Herbert

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
============================================================================
  "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
   on while IP was being designed."                    -- Paul Vixie

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