https://dotsrc.org/news/ Recent content in News on dotsrc Hugo -- gohugo.io [email protected] (dotsrc staff) [email protected] (dotsrc staff) Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:14:00 +0100 https://dotsrc.org/news/2023-11-21-disk-failure/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:14:00 +0100 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2023-11-21-disk-failure/ We are experiencing a disk failure. Which are causing NGINX to return occasional 500 Internal Server Error codes. We are aware of the issue and are working to procure a replacement harddrive. https://dotsrc.org/news/2023-08-22-downtime/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:48:00 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2023-08-22-downtime/ The reason for the downtime is physical relocation of our equipment at the location of our hosting provider, Aalborg University Denmark. Our expectation is our infrastructure will be online again this evening. We do not yet have en exact estimate when the relocation will be completed. 2023-08-22 23:37 +02:00 update: We could not confirm uplink connectivity on our internet facing ports. There will be a delay until tomorrow (23 Aug 2023) before being possible to bring our servers online. https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-07-27-outage/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:40:00 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-07-27-outage/ We are currently experiencing an unexpected outage across all mirrors, and are currently investigating. Update 2022-07-27T12:30:00+02:00: We have identified and fixed the cause of the outage, service is now fully restored. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-04-13_power_outage/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:38:15 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-04-13_power_outage/ We are currently experiencing a power outage in Aalborg, and are therefore down. We are sorry for the inconvenience this causes and hope that power will be back soon. Update: The outage has been resolved. https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-02-16_onion_mirrors/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:30:00 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-02-16_onion_mirrors/ We now provide our mirrors as an onion service! https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-02-09_ipv4_issues/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:28:05 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-02-09_ipv4_issues/ We are currently experiencing issues with our internet connection, which may cause connection failures. From our testing this is only limited to IPv4. We will update this post when we know more. Update 2022-02-10T21:13:55+02:00: It should now be possible to connect again via IPv4. The issues was a configuration error at our ISP. We would like thank DeiC for helping us resolve the issue this quickly. https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-10-17_tor_exits/ Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-10-17_tor_exits/ Dotsrc is now hosting Tor exit nodes! Thanks to DeiC for being LIR and upstream, and to Henrik Kramselund for letting us use some of his IPv4 addresses. More information about the relays can be found here. https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-07-06_searching_for_ipv4_address_space/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:08:54 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-07-06_searching_for_ipv4_address_space/ Dotsrc have been running fast Tor relay nodes for the last couple of years. Last year we began testing if we could operate Exit nodes as well, and did so for about two months. The vast majority of exit traffic is of course benign, but there’s also some malicious traffic which our ISP wasn’t too happy about. Since then we have had quite a few meetings and long email threads looking into possible solutions. https://dotsrc.org/news/successfull-move/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/successfull-move/ We have successfully moved to new location and mirrors.dotsrc.org should be up and running. Please write us on [email protected] if you do not think this is the case and we will take a look :) Note that one of our virtualization servers still is down at the time of writing, see this post. Thanks to Aalborg University for supplying us with one more server, assistance, and still accomodating us. Below are some pictures of the move, we will spare you the details. https://dotsrc.org/news/moving/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:31:07 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/moving/ The time has come for dotsrc to move our servers from our current server room at Aalborg University to a new one. The old locations had been decommissioned and were no longer maintained. Without adequate cooling, the servers have begun to behave rather strangely. Thus the relocation has been expedited. We hope that all services are up and running again during Thursday afternoon. https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-06-01_kvaser_crashed/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:43:11 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-06-01_kvaser_crashed/ mirrors.dotsrc.org is unavailable, starting at aprox 2021-06-01T11:30+02:00. One of our HP D2600 disk enclosures had crashed, which took down the entire ZFS pool again. Update 2021-06-03: Fixed by moving to a new location, see newer posts. https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-05-30_kvaser_crashed/ Sun, 30 May 2021 20:04:17 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-05-30_kvaser_crashed/ mirrors.dotsrc.org was unavailable for about 2 hours, starting at 2021-05-30T19:51+02:00 until it became available again at 2021-05-30T21:56+02:00. One of our HP D2600 disk enclosures had crashed, which took down the entire ZFS pool. Update T20:45+02:00: We’ll have a man on-site T20:45+02:00. If we’re lucky mirrors.dotsrc.org should be back online shortly thereafter. If the disk enclosure is completely dead, ETA is unknown. Update T22:20+02:00: Thomas was able to fix the problem! We’re back online! https://dotsrc.org/news/vm1_downtime/ Sun, 09 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/vm1_downtime/ After a hard disk failure on one of our virtualization servers, the following services have been down since 2021-05-02 10:20:07: Website Tor relay LineageOS build server OpenStreetMap tile server As a temporary measure the website has been moved to Gitlab pages until the issues have been resolved. https://dotsrc.org/news/new-nics/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/new-nics/ BrightStar Systems sponsored 2 Intel X520-DA2. We have been having some trouble with our current network cards (we are currently running at 1x10G) and will use these to replace them (restoring our previous 2x10G) :) https://dotsrc.org/news/http_stats/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:00:00 +0100 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/http_stats/ Since September we have been working on collecting usage statistics for our HTTP and HTTPS mirror traffic. This will give insight into which folders and files are accessed often. We currently collect the following values from each request: Path relative to mirrors.dotsrc.org Downloaded size It is implemented with the following nginx log pattern: log_format logserver '$bytes_sent $uri'; More info can be found here. https://dotsrc.org/news/tor-exit-shutdown/ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/tor-exit-shutdown/ Our ISP DeiC has decided to ban hosting of Tor exit nodes directly on the Danish national research and education network. All hope is not lost - we’re still working with DeiC to find a solution. In the meanwhile, please consider running a Tor node yourself (exit if you can, non-exit otherwise). Check out the Tor Relay Guide to get started. https://dotsrc.org/news/maintenance-downtime/ Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/maintenance-downtime/ We’ll be starting at 2020-10-30T14:15+02:00 (ISO8601), and we expect it to last 20 minutes for each server. If you want to get an email from us before the next scheduled maintenance, please let us know. EDIT: We didn’t manage to update today due to non-technical issues. We will reschedule and hopefully get it done within a month. https://dotsrc.org/news/security-keys/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:24:45 +0200 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/security-keys/ SoloKeys sponsored 4 Solo USB-C and 6 Solo USB-A. Nitrokey sponsored 5 Nitrokey FIDO2. We will be using these primarily for SSH and various webservices. https://dotsrc.org/news/new-website/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/new-website/ We finally migrated away from the old unmaintained PHP CMS. As you can see in the footer, we are now using Hugo to generate static pages. What is New for Visitors? RSS Thanks to Hugo and our theme, you can now get news via RSS. The icon in the footer links to the feed! Theme We are trying keep the spirit of the old site intact, but it seems none of us are super interested in frontend development. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_maintenance-window-for-dotsrc/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_maintenance-window-for-dotsrc/ We are seeing so much traffic that it is necessary to upgrade the hardware hosting mirrors.dotsrc.org. We'll be starting at 2020-02-18T08:00+01:00 (ISO8601), and we expect it to last up to three hours. To convert that to your local time run: date -d 2020-02-18T08:00+01:00 If you want to get an email from us before the next scheduled maintenance, please let us know. Update: Upgrade went well. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_rsync-over-tls/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_rsync-over-tls/ mirrors.dotsrc.org now support rsync over TLS. This is how you use it: wget https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/openssl-rsync chmod +x openssl-rsync rsync --rsh=./openssl-rsync rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_ipv4-problems/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_ipv4-problems/ All dotsrc services were unavailable on IPv4 from around 2019-02-12 12:30 CET to around 16:00 CET. IPv6 traffic was unaffected. The outage was caused by BGP hijacking of 130.225.224.0/19 announced from an Iranian ISP. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_20gbit/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_20gbit/ At dotsrc.org we just got our internet bandwidth doubled. Not because we needed the capacity, but we wanted the redundancy. We now have two 10G uplinks. One to our ISP's (DeiC) router in Lyngby, and one to DeiC's router in Ørestad. Thanks to DeiC and AAU It Services for making this possible. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc-offline-for-1-hour/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc-offline-for-1-hour/ Due to some problems at our ISP (DeIC), all our services, except our IRC-server which is hosted elsewhere, was unfortunately offline about 1 hour from 2018-04-06 00:05:07 CEST until 2018-04-06 01:15:07. We apologize for any inconvenience. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_milestone-reached-100tb-a-week/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_milestone-reached-100tb-a-week/ The total amount of data we upload every week has just passed 100TB! On average this is more than 1.33Gbit/sec. Traffic graph. Our mirror service is the main contributer, which accounts for around 80TB. The last 20TB is shared between our other services (OpenStreetMap, Tor and Usenet). https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_10gbit/ Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_10gbit/ The dotsrc servers are now backed by a 10Gbit Internet connection, and on top of this, the mirror server ( mirrors.dotsrc.org ) has been upgraded to a vastly better server, equipped with a 10Gbit network card. This big upgrade would not have been possible without our sponsors. Big thanks to: DKUUG - for a big cash sponsorship. DeIC - 10Gbit Internet connection. Aalborg University - Sponsored their old Google Search Appliance server, along with two Cisco 3750X switches + 10Gbit modules. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_two-new-services-and-new-mirrors/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_two-new-services-and-new-mirrors/ We now run a tile caching server for OpenStreetMap and are a part of their tile CDN. We are the primary server for tiles served to clients connecting from Denmark, so if OpenStreetMap feels 'snappier' (at least in Denmark) it is thanks to us. We also set up a tor middle relay. This is a non-exit relay, so it only receives encrypted traffic and passes it along to another relay. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_added-https-access-to-the-mirror/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_added-https-access-to-the-mirror/ Thanks to Let's Encrypt providing free SSL certificates, our mirror service is now available using TLS at https://mirrors.dotsrc.org . We also updated our Usenet signup system, so if you have any problems signing up, please send an email to [email protected]. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_call-for-hardware-sponsorship/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_call-for-hardware-sponsorship/ During the recent hardware upgrade, we used all our 4TB drives, so we call for sponsors of additional hard drives in order to keep running our services as optimally as possible. Specifically we need SATA 3.5" hard drives 4TB (or more) and preferably designed for 24/7 usage (e.g. the Western Digital SE/RE/Gold 4TB drive). Sponsoring either as funding or as hardware will of course add you to our list of proud sponsors. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_upgrade-on-dotsrc/ Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_upgrade-on-dotsrc/ The server hosting mirrors.dotsrc.org has been upgraded with newer and faster hard drives. The software stack has also been updated, which includes a switch from using the Apache HTTP server to Nginx. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_online-again/ Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_online-again/ Due to a damaged fibre between dotsrc and the DeIC POP about 100m away all our services, except our IRC-server which is hosted elsewhere, was unfortunately offline from 2014-04-26T19:52 until today at 15:56. We apologize for any inconvenience. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_sponsored-equipment/ Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_sponsored-equipment/ We have received some hardware that we will implement into our infrastructure: Prevas has sponsored us with two 4 TB disks and Xena has sponsored us with four 4 TB disks, an IP KVM switch and a number of servers, which we will be using for virtualization, new backup server, firewalls and more. We would like to thank Xena and Prevas for their support! https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_hardware-slash-sponsor-request/ Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_hardware-slash-sponsor-request/ We need additional hard drives for some of our servers in order to keep running our services as optimally as possible. Specifically we need SATA 3.5" hard drives as large as possible and preferably designed for 24/7 usage. Sponsoring either as funding or as hardware will of course add you to our list of proud sponsors. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_stable-connection-again/ Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_stable-connection-again/ The issue at our ISP has been resolved and dotsrc has been running stable for the last six days. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_news-server-up-and-running-again/ Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_news-server-up-and-running-again/ This morning we got news.dotsrc.org online again. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_unstable-connection/ Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_unstable-connection/ Our ISP (DeIC, formerly known as "Forskningsnettet") is working at resolving the issue. This is related to the issues we saw last week. Right now it means that we have a cycle of 1-2 hours downtime followed by 1-2 hours uptime :-/ https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_further-downtime-and-the-news-server/ Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_further-downtime-and-the-news-server/ For a few days we have had some unstability due to a faulty fibre connection at DeIC, however that whas resolved wednesday. But murphy is around. Our electrical installation failed thursday at 20:24 and dotsrc.org (except irc.dotsrc.org) was offline from then until friday at 13:30 where all services except news.dotsrc.org was brought online again. news.dotsrc.org will be brought online again monday but is unfortunately unavailable until monday. We are sorry for the poor uptime the past week and expect much better uptime in the time to come. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc-offline/ Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc-offline/ Due to an issue in the core of Danish E-infrastructure Cooperation (DeIC), formerly known as "Forskningsnet/Darenet" the services at dotsrc.org except irc.dotsrc.org which is hosted elsewhere, has unfortunately been offline from friday night until today this afternoon. The underlying problem has not been fully resolved yet, so some unstability may occur this evening. DeIC expects to have the issue resolved early Tuesday morning. We are sorry about any inconvenience this may have caused our users. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_planned-downtime/ Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_planned-downtime/ This evening we are moving some servers between two racks and installing some new hardware. This means that the mirror service will be offline for about 10 minutes. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_mirror-server-online-again/ Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_mirror-server-online-again/ The server was unfortunately down from 21:55 yesterday until 6:35 today. We apologize for any inconvenience. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-monitoring-server/ Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-monitoring-server/ Today we have set up a new external Icinga monitoring server which can inform us of downtime via e-mails and sms's. This should enable us to notice downtime much faster and hence improve the uptime of our services. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-name-servers/ Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-name-servers/ We changed name servers for our .dk domains a few days ago. In that transition we made an error, which was corrected again, but some users may experience problems reaching the services from dotsrc.org for a period of time because of negative caching. We apologize for any inconvenience. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_switch/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_switch/ Our main switch broke down today, resulting in our services to be unavailable from 8:25 to 11:15. The switch has been replaced and all services are available again. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_back-online/ Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_back-online/ We have moved away from a filesystem that was causing troubles, and are now back online and in sync on all primary mirror activities. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc/ Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc/ Unfortunately mirrors.dotsrc.org has been down today from 20.53 until next morning 8.58. We apologize for any inconvenience. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_usenet-server/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_usenet-server/ We have received reportings about large delays in usenet postings. We are looking into the issue. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_mirror-server-disk-upgrade/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_mirror-server-disk-upgrade/ We have upgraded our mirror server with additional disks. 6 x 2 TB in a raid10, giving us 6 TB more storage and more I/O performance. Thank you to our sponsor Cabo Communications for the disks and Per Mejdal for a disk controller for the disks. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_ipv6/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_ipv6/ We are glad to announce that we have introduced IPv6 in our network setup and on our mirror server mirrors.dotsrc.org. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_power-distribution/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_power-distribution/ Today between 16:18 and 17:30 our services had smaller outages during the retirement of our APC UPS (thank you APC, it has served us well) and the installation of new PDU's in our racks. mirrors.dotsrc.org was down for 15 minutes from 17:18 to 17:33 https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-electrical-installation/ Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-electrical-installation/ The server room were we are hosted is being renovated with a new electrical installation. In that process the power was cut of today which caused us to be offline today between 8.00 and 11.00. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc-network-bandwidth-limit-achieved/ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_dotsrc-network-bandwidth-limit-achieved/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_downtime/ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_downtime/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-firewall/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-firewall/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_project-hosting-discontinued/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_project-hosting-discontinued/ 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 [email protected] 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_usenet-server-network-changes/ Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_usenet-server-network-changes/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_firewall-maintenance/ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_firewall-maintenance/ We have upgraded our firewall (both hardware and software). This gave us a downtime today between 18:57 and 20:14. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_mirror-server/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_mirror-server/ Our mirror server was unfortunately unavailable today between 15.20 and 16.09. We apologize for any inconvenience. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_high-load-today/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_power-outage/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_expected-power-outage-at-dotsrc.org/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_power-outage-at-dotsrc.org/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_problems-solved/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_news-server-ip-address-change/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_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 " https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_hardware-upgrade-for-dotsrc/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_hardware-upgrade-for-dotsrc/ 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 https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-ip-address-for-dotsrc/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-ip-address-for-dotsrc/ We have migrated our mirror service (http://mirrors.dotsrc.org / ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org) to a new, faster and more spacious server. Thus the IP address of the service has changed to 130.225.254.116. If you have ACLs in place you should update them to reflect this IP change. In the not so distant future we will add more mirrors since we now have more space on the server. We will post news about this here. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_power-supply-failure/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_power-supply-failure/ The power supply in one of our servers failed in the early hours of Thursday. A new power supply is on its way and we expect the server to be running early next week. The affected services are: Mailing lists CVS Project web pages and project FTP https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-running-again/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-running-again/ The server crash from this weekend has now been fixed and we're running again. The problem was a full file system. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_system-work-next-weekend/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_system-work-next-weekend/ 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 :) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-crash/ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-crash/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-recovered/ Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-recovered/ Finally we got the last bits restored from tape. All services are online again, but in case of problems please report to [email protected], 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-recovery-progressing/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-recovery-progressing/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown-update-#3/ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown-update-#3/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown-update-#2/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown-update-#2/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown-update/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown-update/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown/ Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_server-breakdown/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_outages-over-the-weekend/ Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_outages-over-the-weekend/ 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 ;) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-usenet-post-filter/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-usenet-post-filter/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_maintenance-during-the-weekend/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_maintenance-during-the-weekend/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-usenet-access-policy-now-active/ Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_new-usenet-access-policy-now-active/ 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. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_usenet-access-change-underway/ Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_usenet-access-change-underway/ 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 . https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_newsserver-maintenance/ Sat, 28 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_newsserver-maintenance/ The newsserver will be down for maintenance sunday may 29th. The service window is 1600-2200 CEST, but the actual downtime is expected to be 2 hours at max. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_irc-back-in-business/ Sun, 22 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_irc-back-in-business/ The IRC server stopped responding Thursday. Unfortunately, the server could not come up on its own and we were unable to handle the problem at the time. The service has since been restored and is now running properly. Thank you for your patience and sorry for the problems. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_having-troubles-with-irc/ Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_having-troubles-with-irc/ On March 4th we stopped accepting clients on the old IRC server on sunsite.dk. We can see that some clients still try to connect to the old server instead of the new one at irc.dotsrc.org. So please, use the new server which is accessible from Danish addresses and from the networks at the dormitories at Aalborg University. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_services-up-again/ Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_services-up-again/ The servers were shutdown tonight due to over heating of the server room. All services are fully operational and up-to-date again. We're still working on tracing down the exact reasons for why the mirror server refused to come up again after the outage, so there might be another reboot needed in the near future. This time we're better prepared though, so that should only result in a few minutes of downtime. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_update-from-linuxforum/ Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_update-from-linuxforum/ We're just bringing you a small update from LinuxForum. Yesterday we stood by the HP stand all day, being very business like. The guy from HP was great fun, so was the magician HP had hired. We talked to a lot of potential sponsors, most seems to be interested, but we'll see when we follow up. We did however get a new server from the danish GratisDNS.dk , a free dns service. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_news-server-upgraded/ Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_news-server-upgraded/ The news server will be updated next Saturday (2004-08-28) and thus a few hours of service downtime is to be expected. Update: 2004-08-28 The news server was successfully upgraded and the news service was back online from around 1430, local time. https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_screenshots-displaying-configuration-for-usenet/ Thu, 06 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_screenshots-displaying-configuration-for-usenet/ We have added a new page with screenshots of news reader configuration examples. See screenshots . https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_aalborg-university-donated-usenet-server/ Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0000 [email protected] (dotsrc staff) https://dotsrc.org/news/fundanemt_aalborg-university-donated-usenet-server/ Aalborg University has donated a new dedicated USENET news server to SunSITE.dk. The server will be put in production on May 2nd 2004.