System work next weekend
Monday November 5th 2007
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Because of an overhaul of large parts of our systems some outages is expected at random points in time (sorry, can't be more specific about this).
On the good side of things - after the weekend we should end up with some nicer systems :) |
Server running again
Monday November 5th 2007
| The server crash from this weekend has now been fixed and we're running again. The problem was a full file system. |
Server crash
Saturday November 3rd 2007
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One of our servers have crashed. This means that the following services are currently unavailable: project mailinglists, project websites and project cvs.
We are working on fixing this issue as soon as possible but unfortunately it will probably take a couple of days. We are very sorry about this downtime and want you to know that we are doing everything in our power to improve on the situation. Next weekend we have planned a migration to some new servers which should improve both availability and performance. |
Server Recovered
Saturday September 15th 2007
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Finally we got the last bits restored from tape.
All services are online again, but in case of problems please report to staff@dotsrc.org, then we will fix them asap. Also please check your CVS repositories, the lastest commits before the crash might not have made it to our backup. You will have to recommit. The same goes for mail, any mail that hasn't come through yet, needs to be resent. Again, we are terribly sorry about this mess. During the last ~10 years of SunSITE.dk/dotsrc.org this is by far the worst breakdown. The restore took way longer than expected, unfortunately we can't really do otherwise with our current hardware. (Hint: a couple of new servers would be much appreciated - mail to staff@dotsrc.org if you got a spare server) A great thank you goes to the great people at KOM CWS for their massive help with the restore. |
Server Recovery Progressing
Thursday September 13th 2007
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The recovery of the crashed server is now nicely on its way.
As a starter mail and mailinglists are now working again. We have quite a number of mails in the queue on our mailgateway which are now under delivery. Some mails have been temporarily rejected. These mails should start flowing in within the next day. CVS and project web sites are also on their way. More info later. |
Server Breakdown Update #3
Wednesday September 12th 2007
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Unfortunately we've had a poweroutage which didn't affect our servers but it affected the backup systems which are in another building. This means that the data restore on the crashed disk array will be a bit more delayed.
We will post updates as we get more news about this. |
Server Breakdown Update #2
Tuesday September 11th 2007
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It is taking longer than expected to restore the data on the server. This is a combination of old hardware and a slow restore process.
Short story, no mail or cvs service today. We will keep you updated. |
Server Breakdown Update
Monday September 10th 2007
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Earlier today we managed (with help from KOM CWS) to get the failed server in a running state. Unfortunately one of the disk arrays had failed seriously, which means that data needs to be restored from backup. This will take some time, but with a bit of luck, we might be running again tomorrow (tuesday). Please check back here for updates.
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Server breakdown
Saturday September 8th 2007
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Unfortunately one of our servers broke down last night. This means that mail-services is currently unavailable. We are working on a solution but is seems that we won't get everything back to normal before monday.
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Outages over the weekend
Thursday November 9th 2006
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This weekend we'll be installing a few new servers (hooray), move some older server(s) around (uh, yay) and hopefully make our shiny Gbps uplink operational (doubleplusgood). That however means that we'll have to take some services offline for some time, and others might have unplanned outages. Please don't be mad at us -- we'll do our best, but some downtime is simply unavoidable.
And things will be of course much better after the upgrade ;) |
New Usenet Post Filter
Monday August 21st 2006
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Today a new usenet post filter has been enabled on our news server. The primary purpose of this filter is to clean out SPAM - which we do not tolerate. The filter is rather aggressive and will also reject eg. HTML postings - so make sure your news reader is configured to post plain text articles. If you by any chance find that a legitimate, correctly formatted (See RFC 1036) message from you gets rejected, please let us know.
Update: Due to a misconfiguration, the first messages posted after the implementation were lost. The configuration has now been corrected, and all affected users have been notified. |
Maintenance during the weekend
Friday February 10th 2006
| We are going to do some major maintenance on our services this weekend. Some services might therefore be unavalable for a periode, but we will try to make the work as smooth as possible. Sorry for any inconveniences. |
New usenet access policy now active
Saturday November 26th 2005
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As we announced earlier, our access policy to the usenet server would be changed on October 15th, 2005. Unfortunately there were some unexpected difficulties in implementing this policy in practice.
The problems have now been solved, and as of tonight the new policy is active. In short this means that users connecting from a non-danish IP will only be able to access Open Source related groups and Danish news groups. |
Usenet access change underway
Saturday October 1st 2005
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Starting October 15th, 2005 the number of usenet groups will be reduced in order to make the main focus of the usenet service consistent with dotsrc.org's remaining policy and focus.
In short, this means that non-danish users can only access Open Source related news groups, as well as danish news groups. Read our new access policy, our list of news group hierarchies we provide and our policy and rules page. |
Newsserver Maintenance
Saturday May 28th 2005
| The newsserver will be down for maintenance sunday may 29th. The service window is 1600-2200 CEST, but the actual downtime is expected to be 2 hours at max. |
IRC back in business
Sunday May 22nd 2005
| The IRC server stopped responding Thursday. Unfortunately, the server could not come up on its own and we were unable to handle the problem at the time. The service has since been restored and is now running properly. Thank you for your patience and sorry for the problems. |
Having troubles with IRC?
Monday March 28th 2005
| On March 4th we stopped accepting clients on the old IRC server on sunsite.dk. We can see that some clients still try to connect to the old server instead of the new one at irc.dotsrc.org. So please, use the new server which is accessible from Danish addresses and from the networks at the dormitories at Aalborg University. |
Services up again
Saturday March 19th 2005
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The servers were shutdown tonight due to over heating of the server room. All services are fully operational and up-to-date again. We're still working on tracing down the exact reasons for why the mirror server refused to come up again after the outage, so there might be another reboot needed in the near future. This time we're better prepared though, so that should only result in a few minutes of downtime.
Sorry for the problems. |
Update from LinuxForum
Friday March 4th 2005
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We're just bringing you a small update from LinuxForum. Yesterday we stood by the HP stand all day, being very business like. The guy from HP was great fun, so was the magician HP had hired. We talked to a lot of potential sponsors, most seems to be interested, but we'll see when we follow up. We did however get a new server from the danish GratisDNS.dk, a free dns service.
Just for the fun of it, we went to see John "Maddog" Hall. Michael shot this picture of Søren and Simon. | 
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News server upgraded
Monday August 23rd 2004
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The news server will be updated next Saturday (2004-08-28) and thus a few hours of service downtime is to be expected.
Update: 2004-08-28 The news server was successfully upgraded and the news service was back online from around 1430, local time. |
Screenshots displaying configuration for USENET
Friday May 7th 2004
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We have added a new page with screenshots of news reader configuration examples.
See screenshots. |
Aalborg University donated USENET server
Tuesday April 27th 2004
| Aalborg University has donated a new dedicated USENET news server to SunSITE.dk. The server will be put in production on May 2nd 2004. |