[Rhodes22-list] Sorry People

Mark Kaynor mark at kaynor.org
Sat Apr 12 06:18:39 EDT 2003


Michael,

I hate it when that happens. Let me know if there's anything I can do to
help.

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 4:52 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People


> Sorry All, It has been a bad few days
>
> I am sure a few of you are wondering what happened.
>
> 1)We should congratulate each other, rhodes22.org has been up for a year,
their was a down side to this, it was also the renewal date for the domain,
I forgot/put-off paying the bill. Up shot the DNS (how computer find the
site) when down. that is why a
>  few of you got "rhodes22.org not found". Ok I took care of that in the
morning, problem(self inflective) fixed about 8pm.
>
> 2)Thursdays at 2pm I found the server which this runs on was hacked, bad
news, I was cleaning the machine and upgraded the OS(finished that around
12pm, the test messages) I was able to swap software around so no one
noticed, Next thing I did was upgrad
> e all the software to the latest version(57 packages ;-). that when the
list when down.
>
> 3)it turns out that python/mailman/Freebsd are having a problem with the
latest version and the network libs, been debugging this for a while, python
is unable to get the network connection to your mail servers open(that why
the messages make it to the
> archive, but no futher), not fun, I have a workaround in but it a little
slower and picture support is not in. I submit it to be fixed (should take
about a week to fix).
>
> Sorry
>
> MJM
>



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