Server downtime
- DanTheMan
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Server downtime
I am going to upgrade the web server this weekend, making the NAR forums unavailable for up to 6 hours (more likely 1 hour, but you never know). The exact time of the upgrade has still not been decided, but Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon (CET) are most likely.
Old server:
Celeron 300MHz, 256MB SDRAM, 3GB IDE system disk
New server:
Dual Pentium3 700MHz, 1GB SDRAM ECC, 9GB 10k rpm U2W SCSI system disk (with an identical disk as mirror)
Both machines are running FreeBSD 4.7-RELENG, Apache 1.3.27, mod_php4, phpBB2 and MySQL 3.23. They are also running a bunch of other applications, including VPN, NAT, firewall (ipfw) and file sharing using samba and NFS.
Old server:
Celeron 300MHz, 256MB SDRAM, 3GB IDE system disk
New server:
Dual Pentium3 700MHz, 1GB SDRAM ECC, 9GB 10k rpm U2W SCSI system disk (with an identical disk as mirror)
Both machines are running FreeBSD 4.7-RELENG, Apache 1.3.27, mod_php4, phpBB2 and MySQL 3.23. They are also running a bunch of other applications, including VPN, NAT, firewall (ipfw) and file sharing using samba and NFS.
Last edited by DanTheMan on 26 Jan 2003, 01:01, edited 1 time in total.
Move over!!!
- DanTheMan
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Well, the server has been upgraded (replaced) and everything is running smooth again. Unfortunately an internet worm attack (DDoS using MS SQL) took out my dynamic DNS provider (No-IP), so the server has been unavailable for most of the day even though it was only powered down for approximately 90 minutes.
/Sysadmin with a powerslide
/Sysadmin with a powerslide
Move over!!!
- DanTheMan
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Well, the server took a nose dive at 16.30 CET (4.30pm CET, 10.30am EST) today and stopped responding to network events. This effectively took down the forums.
I am still trying to figure out exactly what happened, but I have a few ideas that I'm investigating right now. The prime suspect is the code that mounts Windows shares in the Unix file system (SMBfs). The server is acting as a workgroup file server for a few local clients, and I have recently experimented with creating a huge virtual filesystem consisting of local filesystems and remote NFS and SMB filesystems. Maybe the SMBfs code triggered a bug in FreeBSD that stopped it from responding.
/Daniel
I am still trying to figure out exactly what happened, but I have a few ideas that I'm investigating right now. The prime suspect is the code that mounts Windows shares in the Unix file system (SMBfs). The server is acting as a workgroup file server for a few local clients, and I have recently experimented with creating a huge virtual filesystem consisting of local filesystems and remote NFS and SMB filesystems. Maybe the SMBfs code triggered a bug in FreeBSD that stopped it from responding.
/Daniel
Move over!!!
Not cool hehe, you will notice m8.killahead wrote:heheh
*edit* deleted the latest spam post
This thread is haunted....how cool is that
I know a different forum wich is haunted as well by a bot wich auto generate new user name and drops on spam. I think this is not a bot, perhaps you can give an ip ban ??
- dutch power
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Mark Aalberts
#99 Greg Moore april 22, 1975—October 31, 1999 (you will never be forgoten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqxOecWC ... re=related)
Mark Aalberts
#99 Greg Moore april 22, 1975—October 31, 1999 (you will never be forgoten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqxOecWC ... re=related)
I really can't understand some hackers..
I mean I have a lot of respect for the difficulty of hacking / reverse engineering (probably cause I have never learned that aspect of programming myself), but I fail to see the motive for writing a bot that attacks forums just to annoy people.
What is the point? Why do this when you can put your talents to use elsewhere?
I mean I have a lot of respect for the difficulty of hacking / reverse engineering (probably cause I have never learned that aspect of programming myself), but I fail to see the motive for writing a bot that attacks forums just to annoy people.
What is the point? Why do this when you can put your talents to use elsewhere?
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