Dotsrc network bandwidth limit achieved

 Posted on 2010-02-21  |  dotsrc staff

Some time ago our network connection was upgraded to 1Gbps via a dedicated fibre to the Danish Research Network. However, not until Thursday this week did we manage to reach the bandwidth limit: Over the past couple of months our average output has been circa 300Mbps, but on the 18th we were pushing around 980Mbps for about 2.5 hours, adding up to an impressive amount of data. The reason for this extraordinary amount of traffic was mostly due to new releases from Mozilla. [Read More]

Downtime

 Posted on 2009-12-10  |  dotsrc staff

The services at dotsrc.org was unfortunately unavailable today between 05:01 and 10:51 because of a problem at our ISP. We apologize for any inconvenience during the downtime.

New Firewall

 Posted on 2009-11-06  |  dotsrc staff

Per Mejdal has kindly sponsored us with a new firewall, which should now make it possible for us to fill our 1 Gbps pipe to the Internet. The old firewall is being used in a redundant setup with the new firewall.
We have also made some network changes this evening which, together with putting the new firewall into production, gave us some frequent outages throughout the evening.

Project hosting discontinued

 Posted on 2009-10-21  |  dotsrc staff

As of 2009-10-18 dotsrc.org has discontinued the hosting of projects. Since we started open source hosting more than 10 years ago, Sourceforge, Freshmeat, Launchpad and a bunch of others have emerged. Questions can be directed to staff@dotsrc.org

Please note that we will of course continue to run our open source mirror, usenet server, irc server, BitTorrent servers and so on. New services will emerge in the future.

Usenet server network changes

 Posted on 2009-10-17  |  dotsrc staff

We have made some network changes for our Usenet server. This means that if you use "sunsite.dk" as server name in your config, you will have to change it news.dotsrc.org. If you use news.sunsite.dk your client will continue to work, but we encourage you to change it to news.dotsrc.org.

Firewall maintenance

 Posted on 2009-10-05  |  dotsrc staff

We have upgraded our firewall (both hardware and software). This gave us a downtime today between 18:57 and 20:14.

Mirror server

 Posted on 2009-09-23  |  dotsrc staff

Our mirror server was unfortunately unavailable today between 15.20 and 16.09. We apologize for any inconvenience.

High load today

 Posted on 2009-09-10  |  dotsrc staff

We have recently become a Mozilla mirror and have now experienced the high load this gives on our network during the release of Firefox 3.5.3. It seems our firewall can not push more than 380 Mbps (3x our avg. load), while our mirror-server would be happy to serve more. We expect to have solved this bottle neg before the next release of Firefox, and apologize if the speed on our mirrors are not super speedy today. [Read More]

Power outage

 Posted on 2009-08-31  |  dotsrc staff

We just had our third power outage for the last few weeks (this is not normal. We had servers with almost 4 years of uptime until a month ago). Some guy in the area cut a 20 kV line at 10:41 today, resulting in a 45 min. long power outage. Unfortunately our UPS did not last that long, resulting in 15 min. downtime for our services. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Expected power outage at dotsrc.org

 Posted on 2009-08-26  |  dotsrc staff

Thursday August 27th from 13.00 to 19.30 CEST: We expect to be offline at least one hour during several maintenances of the power distribution of the building we are hosted in.