I received the replacement router today.  I intend to install it this evening.  There will be a very brief interruption of perhaps up to a minute while I move the Ethernet cables over to the new router and it takes the router a few seconds to adjust the port parameters.

     The mysql database used for websites here got corrupted.  I had to stop it and do repairs on all tables to fix.  If you got a “Cannot connect to database.” message, this was the cause.  It is now fixed.

     The old SunOS based eskimo.com shell server is wedged.  It will be restored around 11AM.  In the meantime please use one of the Linux based shell servers.

     No major maintenance activity planned for this Friday evening August 21st.

     We are still waiting on the arrive of a replacement router to replace the unit that lasted only five hours after replacing our old router which is presently back in service.

     It has been in service for 20 years now but it does not support anything faster than 100-base-T half duplex and can’t even fully saturate that.

      Our new router crashed and burned last night so we’ve switched back to the old router until we can get a stable unit.

     Our new router is in place but the port speed is at the old speed until Isomedia switches their end to match.  I expect this will happen sometime later today.

     It went relatively smoothly.  I had some problem getting NAT to work but that was operator error not machine malfunction.

     I will undoubtedly be doing some fine tuning.  But this should take care of the occasional character echo lag and greatly improve connectivity.

     There will be a brief (hopefully) service interruption tonight as I replace our router at the co-location facility.  The new router is capable of 1GB full duplex but initially that won’t be the case as I will have to have Isomedia change the settings on their interface.  But it will take care of CPU exhaustion issues right away.

     If all goes well I will just have to move the ethernet cables over.  However, the user interface is quite different and so I am not 100% confident I have it configured correctly.  If not it may take a bit longer.

    Centos7 is paused temporarily for cloning.  I have been totally unable to get a fresh install of Centos7 based upon the most recent distribution to behave properly, in particular, idmapd will not start and even if I start it manually it does not work, but it works on the existing machine so I’m cloaning it as a work around.

    When the copy finishes, Centos7 will resume execution where it left off.  If I’ve stopped something of yours, please be patient.  I need to do this to get a database someone’s shop is dependent upon up and running again.

     I have removed status.net because people have found a way to cause it to lock tables in the database and then cause processes to pile up until it exhausts all database connections.

     The code is old and is no longer being maintained.  It has been replaced by pump.io but pump.io is incompatible with a web server running on the same machine as it has it’s own server engine rather than using Apache.

     I may place it on another host here but at present it is not installed.

     I am going to reboot mail.eskimo.com, shellx.eskimo.com, and ftp.eskimo.com to change memory allocation to hopefully address some response issues this morning.

     This will be a very brief outage, should be less than a minute.