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
We have upgraded our firewall (both hardware and software). This gave us a downtime today between 18:57 and 20:14.
Mirror server
Our mirror server was unfortunately unavailable today between 15.20 and 16.09. We apologize for any inconvenience.
High load today
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.
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Power outage
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
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.
Power outage at dotsrc.org
Starting yesterday at around 20:30 CET we had a power outage at campus which involved a rather hefty power surge. This resulted in all our machines were rebooted. We're almost back in the air again now. It seems like we didn't loose any hardware which we consider rather lucky considering the event. We'll keep you posted as we get the rest of our services running.
Problems solved
We had some routing issues as a result of the power cut yesterday which have now been resolved and everything should run as before. The power outage is according to information from the power supplier the result of a high voltage fault which resulted in a chain of 8 separate cable faults in the area. Power problems of this magnitude are very uncommon in the area. One of our servers reached an uptime of 1409 days.
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News Server IP address change
Within the next few days we are going to change the IP address of our news server. We have already moved the backend parts of the news server setup to a new IP range, and we will now continue with the frontend part. In general users shouldn't be affected by this change, but if you have been using our news service for a very long time, there is a chance that you news client might be configured to use "
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Hardware upgrade for mirrors.dotsrc.org
Mirrors.dotsrc.org has been down for maintenance today between 23:50 and 24:00. Thanks to
DKUUG
we have been able to upgrade the mirror server from 2 GiB RAM to 32 GiB RAM