The time has come for dotsrc to move our servers from our current server room at Aalborg University to a new one. The old locations had been decommissioned and were no longer maintained. Without adequate cooling, the servers have begun to behave rather strangely. Thus the relocation has been expedited.
We hope that all services are up and running again during Thursday afternoon.
mirrors.dotsrc.org is unavailable, starting at aprox 2021-06-01T11:30+02:00. One of our HP D2600 disk enclosures had crashed, which took down the entire ZFS pool again.
Update 2021-06-03: Fixed by moving to a new location, see newer posts.
After a hard disk failure on one of our virtualization servers, the following services have been down since 2021-05-02 10:20:07:
As a temporary measure the website has been moved to Gitlab pages until the issues have been resolved.
BrightStar Systems sponsored 2 Intel X520-DA2.
We have been having some trouble with our current network cards (we are currently running at 1x10G) and will use these to replace them (restoring our previous 2x10G) :)
Since September we have been working on collecting usage statistics for our HTTP and HTTPS mirror traffic. This will give insight into which folders and files are accessed often.
We currently collect the following values from each request:
It is implemented with the following nginx log pattern:
log_format logserver '$bytes_sent $uri';
More info can be found here.
Our ISP DeiC has decided to ban hosting of Tor exit nodes directly on the Danish national research and education network.
All hope is not lost - we’re still working with DeiC to find a solution.
In the meanwhile, please consider running a Tor node yourself (exit if you can, non-exit otherwise). Check out the Tor Relay Guide to get started.
We’ll be starting at 2020-10-30T14:15+02:00 (ISO8601), and we expect it to last 20 minutes for each server.
If you want to get an email from us before the next scheduled maintenance, please let us know.
EDIT: We didn’t manage to update today due to non-technical issues. We will reschedule and hopefully get it done within a month.