Server Recovery Progressing

 Posted on 2007-09-13  |  dotsrc staff

The recovery of the crashed server is now nicely on its way. As a starter mail and mailinglists are now working again. We have quite a number of mails in the queue on our mailgateway which are now under delivery. Some mails have been temporarily rejected. These mails should start flowing in within the next day. CVS and project web sites are also on their way. More info later. [Read More]

Server Breakdown Update #3

 Posted on 2007-09-12  |  dotsrc staff

Unfortunately we've had a poweroutage which didn't affect our servers but it affected the backup systems which are in another building. This means that the data restore on the crashed disk array will be a bit more delayed.

We will post updates as we get more news about this.

Server Breakdown Update #2

 Posted on 2007-09-11  |  dotsrc staff

It is taking longer than expected to restore the data on the server. This is a combination of old hardware and a slow restore process.

Short story, no mail or cvs service today. We will keep you updated.

Server Breakdown Update

 Posted on 2007-09-10  |  dotsrc staff

Earlier today we managed (with help from KOM CWS) to get the failed server in a running state. Unfortunately one of the disk arrays had failed seriously, which means that data needs to be restored from backup. This will take some time, but with a bit of luck, we might be running again tomorrow (tuesday). Please check back here for updates.

Server breakdown

 Posted on 2007-09-08  |  dotsrc staff

Unfortunately one of our servers broke down last night. This means that mail-services is currently unavailable. We are working on a solution but is seems that we won't get everything back to normal before monday.

Outages over the weekend

 Posted on 2006-11-09  |  dotsrc staff

This weekend we'll be installing a few new servers (hooray), move some older server(s) around (uh, yay) and hopefully make our shiny Gbps uplink operational (doubleplusgood). That however means that we'll have to take some services offline for some time, and others might have unplanned outages. Please don't be mad at us -- we'll do our best, but some downtime is simply unavoidable.

And things will be of course much better after the upgrade ;)

New Usenet Post Filter

 Posted on 2006-08-21  |  dotsrc staff

Today a new usenet post filter has been enabled on our news server. The primary purpose of this filter is to clean out SPAM - which we do not tolerate. The filter is rather aggressive and will also reject eg. HTML postings - so make sure your news reader is configured to post plain text articles. If you by any chance find that a legitimate, correctly formatted (See RFC 1036 ) message from you gets rejected, please let us know. [Read More]

Maintenance during the weekend

 Posted on 2006-02-10  |  dotsrc staff

We are going to do some major maintenance on our services this weekend. Some services might therefore be unavalable for a periode, but we will try to make the work as smooth as possible. Sorry for any inconveniences.

New usenet access policy now active

 Posted on 2005-11-26  |  dotsrc staff

As we announced earlier, our access policy to the usenet server would be changed on October 15th, 2005. Unfortunately there were some unexpected difficulties in implementing this policy in practice. The problems have now been solved, and as of tonight the new policy is active. In short this means that users connecting from a non-danish IP will only be able to access Open Source related groups and Danish news groups. [Read More]

Usenet access change underway

 Posted on 2005-10-01  |  dotsrc staff

Starting October 15th, 2005 the number of usenet groups will be reduced in order to make the main focus of the usenet service consistent with dotsrc.org's remaining policy and focus. In short, this means that non-danish users can only access Open Source related news groups, as well as danish news groups. Read our new access policy , our list of news group hierarchies we provide and our policy and rules page . [Read More]