New Firewall

 Posted on 2009-11-06  |  

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  |  

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  |  

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  |  

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  |  

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  |  

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  |  

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  |  

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

 Posted on 2009-07-28  |  

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

 Posted on 2009-07-28  |  

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. [Read More]