Life without FreeBSD Forums is hard!

[hruodr]

A whole day the forum was unreachable.

 

[SirDice]

It was down for a lot longer than a day. It went down some time Sunday afternoon and only got back up a few minutes ago.

Don't yet know what the cause was though. But us admins couldn't even access the host itself. So there wasn't much we could do to fix things.

 

[Erichans]

Thanks for getting the forum up and running again!
I am curious however about the cause behind it.

 

[covacat]

2 days+ and the host seemed down, no communication
kind of embarrassing

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Don't yet know what the cause was though.

And here I was going to yell at you for it but this was totally out of your control? Did no one know for days? Was it catastrophic failure somewhere? Did it take days for someone to get aroiund to looking at it?

 

[gladiola]

2 days+ and the host seemed down, no communication
kind of embarrassing

It was on the bug report.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261248

 

[SirDice]

Did no one know for days? Was it catastrophic failure somewhere?

All I know at the moment is that the host itself was down. We have ssh access to it but that wasn't accessible either.

 

[covacat]

It was on the bug report.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261248

i know but it provided no useful information

 

[obsigna]

Don't yet know what the cause was though. But us admins couldn't even access the host itself. So there wasn't much we could do to fix things.

This is a perfect base for all sorts of conspiracy theories.

Here comes my CT. The server was captured by Russia and is hosted now somewhere in Siberia. It took some time to get the last mile connected. This explains, why even SirDice didn’t have access to it.

Now, once Putin starts the invasion, we all can be updated by the one and only source of true news about it (RT), and our comments and suggestions would be redacted in order to stay positive.

 

[Geezer]

It was down for a lot longer than a day. It went down some time Sunday afternoon and only got back up a few minutes ago.
Don't yet know what the cause was though. But us admins couldn't even access the host itself. So there wasn't much we could do to fix things.

Where is the machine? I believe you are in Netherlands, is it there or on another continent?

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Glad the forum is back up.

 

[covacat]

the host seems to be in NC, USA

 

[mer]

the host seems to be in NC, USA

Well if one believes the Weather channel there was a significant winter storm that rolled through that area a few days ago. It was a mix of wet snow, rain, sleet, high winds, so I can imagine power outages and connectivity down for a bit. If the hosting service has backup power but physical wires into/out of the building are down, "you can't get there from here".

I'm guessing that the systemd discussions were also part of the cause....

SirDice, the rest of the admins, hosting service, thanks for getting things back in order.

 

[eternal_noob]

Was there a database breach? Do we need to change our passwords?
I demand answers.

 

[SirDice]

Was there a database breach?

There's no indication this was caused by a breach of any kind. The host was down, that's all.

I demand answers.

We will try to provide them if/when we can.

 

[jbo@]

Do we need to change our passwords?

Do you not do that on a weekly basis anyway? ?

 

[any_name_you_wish]

Do we need to change our passwords?

Good idea!

I've done that ;-)

 

[eternal_noob]

Do you not do that on a weekly basis anyway?

*Checks notes*
People say that this isn't useful and actually worsens the password situation.

Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”

Bucking a major trend, company speaks out against the age-old practice.

arstechnica.com

 

[SirDice]

People say that this isn't useful and actually worsens the password situation.

Also note that you can enable 2FA on your forum account.

 

[Geezer]

Also note that you can enable 2FA on your forum account.

Is that really necessary? Would someone break into my account in order to post sarcastic comments?

 

[SirDice]

Is that really necessary?

It's mandatory for moderators and admins. But I just wanted to let everyone else know it's an option you can use.

 

[eternal_noob]

Btw. The PR is still "In Progress". So it's not over yet?

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Geezer smells of elderberries.

 

[Logicien]

I have think that my ip address was black listed. ? Now that it is available again and that I write in it I know that it was not the case. This forum is nice I wish it long life and support starting by me. ?

 

[drhowarddrfine]

you can enable 2FA on your forum account.

I did not know that. Or perhaps I forgot.

 

[Geezer]

It's mandatory for moderators and admins. But I just wanted to let everyone else know it's an option you can use.

Your being both an admin and a moderator (and staff), shouldn't you enable 3FA or even 4FA?