The forums servers must have crashed big time on 8/27, thank you for all the hard work to get them back on line in what seemed no time at all.
Also where I am at the forums seem 50% faster than they did before, practically instantaneous compared to what I have known in the past.
Yesterday, I logged in, and all was good. I think I posted one reply.
I revisited the forums about 1 hour later, and got a message that the forums were down.
When I got home, later in the day, I logged in. And it looked as if two day’s worth of posts had disappeared. Some of them seem to be reappearing.
I do hope there will be some sort of report on what happened. Inquiring minds want to know.
Yea, I do hope they have video of the smoke that must have been coming off the servers yesterday. Actually, if you follow the comments in this forum you can see a trend of problems over the last couple weeks or month.
It wasn’t a crash. They were taken off deliberately due to some security issues.
An announcement will follow in due course.
On 2013-08-28 22:19, caf4926 wrote:
>
> It wasn’t a crash. They were taken off deliberately due to some security
> issues.
> An announcement will follow in due course.
Warning: duplicated posts are appearing on nntp side.
I guess that as the nntp database is used to recover the web database,
these posts are sent to the gateway again.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Sorry, Outage would be more preferable to you?
wholly **** though really it is like night and day as far as load speed is going. What to a couple seconds before takes milliseconds now, what in the world could be the difference?
Perhaps your government stopped intercepting your messages? 
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:24:11 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-08-28 22:19, caf4926 wrote:
>>
>> It wasn’t a crash. They were taken off deliberately due to some
>> security issues.
>> An announcement will follow in due course.
>
> Warning: duplicated posts are appearing on nntp side.
I suppose it’s possible that in the 10-minute window between the restore
point and the gateway run that would’ve been after that, those posts
might come through again. But if there’s more than that, a couple
samples would be useful.
We may, though, just have to live with having some duplicate posts.
> I guess that as the nntp database is used to recover the web database,
> these posts are sent to the gateway again.
NNTP->Web would run again, but once back on the web side, they shouldn’t
come back to NNTP again - the gateway has specific code to prevent that
(it knows that a message originated from NNTP and shouldn’t be flagged as
‘new’ when the gateway runs a second time).
Jim
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On 2013-08-28 23:11, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:24:11 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> might come through again. But if there’s more than that, a couple
> samples would be useful.
I have to go. I sent sample headers to mail list a minute ago.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:25:33 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-08-28 23:11, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:24:11 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> might come through again. But if there’s more than that, a couple
>> samples would be useful.
>
> I have to go. I sent sample headers to mail list a minute ago.
Got them, thanks.
Jim
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caf4926 wrote:
>
> It wasn’t a crash. They were taken off deliberately due to some security
> issues.
> An announcement will follow in due course.
>
>
All sorts of weird stuff happened over pas couple of days
My ip address got blocked.forums had an outage ?
nntp was not accepting connections 
GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
On 2013-08-28 23:46, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:25:33 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> On 2013-08-28 23:11, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:24:11 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>
>>> might come through again. But if there’s more than that, a couple
>>> samples would be useful.
>>
>> I have to go. I sent sample headers to mail list a minute ago.
>
> Got them, thanks.
Welcome.
It seems that there is only one occurrence, or the only one I can find.
That one was very easy to see, both posts were one next to the other, it
jumped to the eye. Others may be in hiding, if they are present.
What I’m finding several, are broken threads: I see the final posts
(posted today or yesterday), but not those that started the thread.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 2013-08-29 10:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> What I’m finding several, are broken threads: I see the final posts
> (posted today or yesterday), but not those that started the thread.
For example, on this thread, the 3 posts at the start are missing
(anika200, nrickert, anika200). The first one I see is from caf4926.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-08-29 10:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> What I’m finding several, are broken threads: I see the final posts
>> (posted today or yesterday), but not those that started the thread.
>
> For example, on this thread, the 3 posts at the start are missing
> (anika200, nrickert, anika200). The first one I see is from caf4926.
FWIW, I can confirm that that is what I see in this thread too. And I’m
using a completely different setup to get the messages, so it seems
pretty likely to be a server-side issue.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:38:07 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-08-29 10:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> What I’m finding several, are broken threads: I see the final posts
>> (posted today or yesterday), but not those that started the thread.
>
> For example, on this thread, the 3 posts at the start are missing
> (anika200, nrickert, anika200). The first one I see is from caf4926.
Also good to know - thanks.
Jim
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 03:12:50 +0000, anika200 wrote:
> wholly **** though really it is like night and day as far as load speed
> is going. What to a couple seconds before takes milliseconds now, what
> in the world could be the difference?
We moved again to different hardware and a different network.
Jim
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 07:32:58 +0000, vazhavandan wrote:
> caf4926 wrote:
>>
>> It wasn’t a crash. They were taken off deliberately due to some
>> security issues.
>> An announcement will follow in due course.
>>
>>
> All sorts of weird stuff happened over pas couple of days My ip address
> got blocked.forums had an outage ?
> nntp was not accepting connections
NNTP was shut down while the web forums were fixed - given our last
experience with having one interface up, taking both down was decided to
be prudent, esp. since the installation was moved to a different set of
hardware.
Jim
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On 2013-08-29 18:16, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:38:07 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> On 2013-08-29 10:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> What I’m finding several, are broken threads: I see the final posts
>>> (posted today or yesterday), but not those that started the thread.
>>
>> For example, on this thread, the 3 posts at the start are missing
>> (anika200, nrickert, anika200). The first one I see is from caf4926.
>
> Also good to know - thanks.
Welcome.
It seems to be the first posts made while the interfaces were coming up. :-?
Congrats on the new hardware, by the way 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:53:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-08-29 18:16, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:38:07 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>
>>> On 2013-08-29 10:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>>> What I’m finding several, are broken threads: I see the final posts
>>>> (posted today or yesterday), but not those that started the thread.
>>>
>>> For example, on this thread, the 3 posts at the start are missing
>>> (anika200, nrickert, anika200). The first one I see is from caf4926.
>>
>> Also good to know - thanks.
>
> Welcome.
>
> It seems to be the first posts made while the interfaces were coming up.
> :-?
It’s possible - I don’t have direct access to the systems involved, so
I’m guessing about when the messages might be missing from based on the
times things happened and how the software works.
> Congrats on the new hardware, by the way
Heh, there are certainly easier ways to get new hardware (and far less
painful ways). OTOH, we do now have time back in sync with reality, too
(someone reported it was off by something like 9 minutes).
Jim
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