Hardware failure on mirrors.dotsrc.org

ETA: fixed

 Posted on 2021-05-30  |  Anders Trier Olesen

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! [Read More]
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Hard disk failure resulted downtime

 Posted on 2021-05-09  |  

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.

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Statistics for Web Traffic

WIP statistics for HTTP and HTTPS requests

 Posted on 2021-03-02  |  

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

 Posted on 2020-11-22  |  

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.

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Upcoming Maintenance window

We will be updating our servers

 Posted on 2020-10-30  |  

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.

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The New Website is Live

If You See This on dotsrc.org

 Posted on 2020-09-22  |  Victor Büttner

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. [Read More]
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Maintenance window for mirrors.dotsrc.org

 Posted on 2020-02-16  |  

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. [Read More]

rsync over TLS

 Posted on 2020-01-21  |  

mirrors.dotsrc.org now support rsync over TLS.

This is how you use it: 
wget https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/openssl-rsync

chmod +x openssl-rsync

rsync --rsh=./openssl-rsync rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org