Author Topic: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014  (Read 6500 times)

Online Chris Bergin

In the latest update to the security of the servers, the host notes they will be looking to install a new update and reboot the servers sometime today.

This may result in a short period of outage for the site.

The host is working a datacenter at a time and we're near the bottom of the list, so we think it will (hopefully) be in the dead of night when this happens.

If our servers enter this period and I'm awake, I'll provide updates on @NASASpaceflight as to when we're back.

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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #1 on: 10/01/2014 07:57 pm »
They took 60 minutes each to complete the first two datacenter security updates, so that's what it looks like it'll be for our downtime. The good news is it does look like they are going down the list, so our turn in Dallas shouldn't be for another five to six hours, which isn't all that busy a time of day for us.

Glad there's no SpaceX launch!
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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #2 on: 10/01/2014 11:02 pm »
We're due in about four hours from now. So 3am GMT.
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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #3 on: 10/01/2014 11:08 pm »
We're due in about four hours from now. So 3am GMT.
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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #4 on: 10/01/2014 11:11 pm »
It's worked out pretty good for us, site gets quiet at that time.
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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #5 on: 10/01/2014 11:15 pm »
That is right in my lunch break here in downunder :-[
Ah well, let's see how bad the withdrawal symptoms will be...

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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #6 on: 10/01/2014 11:48 pm »
I assume this is to protect against Shellshock? You guys seem very on the ball, as I remember you patched against Heartbleed before it even hit the news.

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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #7 on: 10/02/2014 12:25 am »
I assume this is to protect against Shellshock? You guys seem very on the ball, as I remember you patched against Heartbleed before it even hit the news.

We always try to be as much 'on the ball' as possible. We patched the servers as soon as the Shellshock story broke, today the infrastructure (VM's and storage) needs to be rebooted to mitigate a security issue in the VM infrastructure.

(I sound clever there, don't I!................................... Mark wrote that! ;D)
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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #8 on: 10/02/2014 03:53 am »
Obviously not happened yet. We're next, however!
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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #9 on: 10/02/2014 05:57 am »
The site went out for me around a half hour ago....   Aaaaand, you're back!

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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #10 on: 10/02/2014 05:58 am »
That wasn't too bad!

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Re: Potential Maintenance Outage - Oct 1, 2014
« Reply #11 on: 10/02/2014 06:26 am »
Nice! That looked pretty painless!
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