[Rhodes22-list] Sorry People

[Wally Buck]

MJM,

Great job, I knew you were on top of it. Servers are not up 24X7 365 days a 
year. This is a fact of life!

Thanks for keeping this thing going.

Wally






>From: Michael Meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Sorry People
>Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 04:52:17 -0400
>
>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 upgrade 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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