Server Status
23:17:35 up 167 days, 31 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
Welcome to Boffo!
2/16/09 - This: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2233207
knocked us offfline for a couple hours this morning. Apparently
a malfunctioning router somewhere in the Czech Republic started
spewing garbage, and other routers running a very old unpatched
version of Cisco's IOS started crashing instead of ignoring it.
My ISP's upstream provider got caught up in the ensuing mess.
4/30/09 - Just discovered DNS was broken somehow, at least partly;
hopefully that didn't break too much.
7/1/09 - OK, so e-mail has been broken for most of the day. Whoops. My
fault. Fixed now. I'm working on upgrading the file server
(which is also the database server), so I changed the spam
filtering scripts to use a different database server temporarily.
Turns out the version of MySQL installed on the mail server is too
old to talk to that other database server at all, so everything
broke and I didn't notice. Other than that, the upgrade has been
going surprisingly well, but that's going to be a problem.
UPDATE: Problem solved, boffo now has a new enough version of
mysql. UPDATE 2: Problem not quite solved yet; I have to
recompile PHP, which is not going smoothly. Apache is down.
7/3/09 - Found out how to remove broken LILO from the MBR, and everything
works. Shouldn't have to reboot anymore.