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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Nov 25, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> For those wondering why our download.sourcemage.org and
> codex.sourcemage.org are down, see below. Our team is working on
> redirecting requests so that your service may be uninterrupted. ;)

To clarify, that should probably read "were down".  We've been serving data
from an alternate site since around noon.  If anyone still isn't able to
get codex or sorcery downloads, make sure you don't have ibiblio in your
/etc/hosts file from last month.

> -sandalle
> 
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> Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
> eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
> http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
> http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:51:43 -0500
> From: Jonathan Mills <jonmills AT metalab.unc.edu>
> Reply-To: jonmills AT ibiblio.org
> To: webgroup AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [webgroup] ibiblio suffers power outage
> 
> I would like to address two specific issues concerning many of you at
> the moment.  Our server housing /export/distributions (and thus all our
> linux distros) is currently running a full filesystem check.  This is a
> multi-terabyte machine, the file checks will take many hours, and all we
> can do is wait.  We hope you understand.
> 
> Secondly, db3.ibiblio.org is also in the midst of filesystem checks and
> will be inaccessible for an unknown period of time, affecting
> etree.ibiblio.org.
> 
> We thank you for your patience.
> 
> Jonathan Mills wrote:
> 
> > Let me just begin by saying Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
> >
> > As you likely know by now, ibiblio went offline early this morning,
> > approx 8:30.  As I understand it, UNC's ITS was testing their UPS
> > systems.  I'm gonna guess that those tests failed.
> >
> > However, we have been remarkably lucky.  It took several hours for our
> > NFS storage server to check all its disks, but once those tests were
> > complete, all our web servers were able to come back up, remount their
> > network filesystems, and resume business as usual.
> >
> > There are a few services that are still seeing interruption, mainly
> > streams and bittorrent trackers, and we ask for your continued
> > patience as we attempt to work out these little kinks.
> >
> > Thanks, and enjoy the rest of your holiday!
> >
> > The ibiblio Team.
> >
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> >

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