Server Changes Acomin'

Post by **Cartollomew** » 09 Jun 2008, 20:19

Today's outage more or less confirms a hardware or firmware fault to be the reason behind the day-long downtime that we seem to get every month or so.

I'm looking at 2 options:

1) Write a horrible, yet ingenius software hack to prod the hardware into working when something goes wrong. This would result in downtime that is not noticeably different from the semi-regular DNS update changes we get from time to time (the odd ~3 minute blocks where the site can't be found).

2) Replace the hardware.

In terms of man hours, 2 is the sensible "Russian" approach, and 1 is the "NASA" approach.

However, given my time is comparitively worthless, and therefore "free", I'm inclined to look at a software solution.

What I'd like from you guys, is to find out how intrusive the DNS downtime blocks are - how commonly you get a "site not found" error, and how long that downtime is.

It *should* vary from person to person, and this is by no means definitive or scientific, but I just want an idea.

Cheers,
Cart

Post by **Mitra** » 09 Jun 2008, 21:37

50% every 3 days ... (actually 1/6)

(ie if if i check it twice every day then it will crap out 1 once on the 3rd day

Post by **Johnnyrico** » 09 Jun 2008, 22:00

WWCD

What Would China Do?

Post by **Runetender** » 09 Jun 2008, 22:56

I demand free gametime added to my account for the lost downtime!!!

Post by **Cartollomew** » 09 Jun 2008, 23:43

Runetender wrote:I demand free gametime added to my account for the lost downtime!!!

I can't do that. however, i can give you 1 extra day's forum time per month.

Post by **Cartollomew** » 16 Jun 2008, 13:35

Someone (Phil?) mentioned they'd been having logout issues recently (roughly since the last server reboot).

Has anyone else been finding they've been prematurely logged out and/or had all the posts they'd read that session being flagged as unread again?

Post by **Johnnyrico** » 16 Jun 2008, 14:00

I'm ok.

Perhaps this server is racist against the Japanese?

So sad :'(

Post by **Cartollomew** » 16 Jun 2008, 14:13

Johnnyrico wrote:I'm perverted.

Perhaps this server is racist against Phil?

He so dreamy and exotic.

A-yup.

Post by **Mitra** » 09 Jul 2008, 00:02

something i've noticed in the last day or 2....

some posts i haven't yet read are not marked as new even though they are

happened since i updated opera to 9.51

Post by **Johnnyrico** » 09 Jul 2008, 00:33

Mitra wrote:something i've noticed in the last day or 2....

some posts i haven't yet read are not marked as new even though they are

happened since i updated opera to 9.51

^ what he said.

Post by **Cartollomew** » 09 Jul 2008, 00:54

Interesting.

You using Opera too, Rico?

I've noticed I get less leeway with login times under Opera 9.51

Post by **Mitra** » 09 Jul 2008, 01:26

yeah this is like... haven't checked since noon.

50% of posts since then are not marked as new when i get home at 6

Post by **Mitra** » 12 Jul 2008, 13:27

follow up to this.

emails i received on these day were out of sync...

ie i recieved replies to multiple recipient emails before the original group email

something screwy at the ISP?

Post by **Cartollomew** » 12 Jul 2008, 14:39

Mitra wrote:follow up to this.

emails i received on these day were out of sync...

ie i recieved replies to multiple recipient emails before the original group email

something screwy at the ISP?

Possibly.

Everyone rolled out big DNS changes last week - might've been on the 8th (but it was coordinated and a Huge Deal).

Post by **Karjalan** » 12 Jul 2008, 17:12

Who's everyone and why wasn't this brought to people's attention >.<.

I'm having shitty issues all over the show with internet lately.