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.
Hardware failure on mirrors.dotsrc.org
ETA: fixed
mirrors.dotsrc.org was unavailable for about 2 hours, starting at 2021-05-30T19:51+02:00 until it became available again at 2021-05-30T21:56+02:00.
One of our HP D2600 disk enclosures had crashed, which took down the entire ZFS pool.
Update T20:45+02:00: We’ll have a man on-site T20:45+02:00. If we’re lucky mirrors.dotsrc.org should be back online shortly thereafter. If the disk enclosure is completely dead, ETA is unknown.
Update T22:20+02:00: Thomas was able to fix the problem! We’re back online!
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Hard disk failure resulted downtime
After a hard disk failure on one of our virtualization servers, the following services have been down since 2021-05-02 10:20:07:
- Website
- Tor relay
- LineageOS build server
- OpenStreetMap tile server
As a temporary measure the website has been moved to Gitlab pages until the issues have been resolved.
We Have Recieved New Network Adapters
Thanks to our sponsor BrightStar Systems
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) :)
Statistics for Web Traffic
WIP statistics for HTTP and HTTPS requests
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:
- Path relative to mirrors.dotsrc.org
- Downloaded size
It is implemented with the following nginx log pattern:
log_format logserver '$bytes_sent $uri';
More info can be found here.
Our Tor nodes no longer accepts exit traffic
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.
Upcoming Maintenance window
We will be updating our servers
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.
dotsrc will now use security keys
Thanks to our sponsors SoloKeys and NitroKeys
SoloKeys sponsored 4 Solo USB-C and 6 Solo USB-A.
Nitrokey sponsored 5 Nitrokey FIDO2.
We will be using these primarily for SSH and various webservices.
The New Website is Live
If You See This on dotsrc.org
We finally migrated away from the old unmaintained PHP CMS. As you can see in the footer, we are now using Hugo to generate static pages.
What is New for Visitors? RSS Thanks to Hugo and our theme, you can now get news via RSS. The icon in the footer links to the feed!
Theme We are trying keep the spirit of the old site intact, but it seems none of us are super interested in frontend development.
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Maintenance window for mirrors.dotsrc.org
We are seeing so much traffic that it is necessary to upgrade the hardware hosting mirrors.dotsrc.org. We'll be starting at 2020-02-18T08:00+01:00 (ISO8601), and we expect it to last up to three hours. To convert that to your local time run: date -d 2020-02-18T08:00+01:00 If you want to get an email from us before the next scheduled maintenance, please let us know. Update: Upgrade went well.
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