System work next weekend

 Posted on 2007-11-05  |  dotsrc staff

Because of an overhaul of large parts of our systems some outages is expected at random points in time (sorry, can't be more specific about this).

On the good side of things - after the weekend we should end up with some nicer systems :)

Server crash

 Posted on 2007-11-03  |  dotsrc staff

One of our servers have crashed. This means that the following services are currently unavailable: project mailinglists, project websites and project cvs. We are working on fixing this issue as soon as possible but unfortunately it will probably take a couple of days. We are very sorry about this downtime and want you to know that we are doing everything in our power to improve on the situation. [Read More]

Server Recovered

 Posted on 2007-09-15  |  dotsrc staff

Finally we got the last bits restored from tape. All services are online again, but in case of problems please report to staff@dotsrc.org, then we will fix them asap. Also please check your CVS repositories, the lastest commits before the crash might not have made it to our backup. You will have to recommit. The same goes for mail, any mail that hasn't come through yet, needs to be resent. [Read More]

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]