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Subject: 
LUGNET Outage 17/18 Feb 2012
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Date: 
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:55:08 GMT
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Dear LUGNET Users,

as you will have noticed, LUGNET experienced an outage on 17 and 18 Feb 2012.

This was due to the main server having gone down under heavy load during a
backup cycle.

Since this issue has been haunting us for a while, I have attempted to move
things over to a brand-new machine with significantly better stats.

Unfortunately the architectural differences have shown two significant
tripwires, one being the 64bit architecture coming with most current Linux
platforms, and the other being the fairly old but still well-used NNTP system of
LUGNET.

In an attempt to stabilize things I have moved back to the old server and will
examine the alternatives of either setting up a new 32bit system or trying to
update the relevant parts of the software to work in a 64bit environment.

Consequently, the service may get moved to a new platform intermittently - if it
does, you will see short periods where posting is disabled or other services
refuse to respond as expected. Please bear with us, it's not exactly an easy
project but it has to be done now before the situation gets worse.

Thank you for your support and understanding,

Best regards,
Jerry



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  Re: LUGNET Outage 17/18 Feb 2012
 
Jerry, Thank you so much for all the work you do behind the scenes to keep lugnet alive. Chris (...) (13 years ago, 18-Feb-12, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 

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