MurkNET BBS
Okay, this message will serve as the header for a temporary BBS about the Murknet situation. I've postdated it so it will stay at the top of my journal, and I'll turn anonymous posting back on for a little while. Check back to this message to watch for situation updates in the reply chain.
** THIS ENTRY IS NO LONGER ADVANCE-DATED BECAUSE THAT REALLY SUCKED FOR NEW JOURNAL ENTRIES. **
Newest Status, 12:22am Tuesday: Pulled mail spools and a lot of other configuration data off of lodestone on a private LAN. The thing has all kinds of crap b0rked on it - it's drifting in space, life support is barely functional, and the warp drive is a hopeless pile of junk. Fucking Brazilians. We're having trouble getting spamassassin to invoke properly on newmoon, so no mail pointer updating yet. (V. sad.) But at least we've got mail spools so that people can get the mail that was already queued up when I pulled the plug. I've also got DNS files pulled down, and the mailman mailing list databank, so hopefully that might work again sometime this year.
Status, 8:45pm Monday: Mostly been busy with other stuff during the day today. Tonight, with Traest's help, I got pine/pico installed from source (pine can't be distributed in binary form) and, more importantly, spamassassin. Email soon, minions - soooooon.
Status 10:34am Monday: POP3 is running on newmoon. Also, we're creating a few user accounts on newmoon for people who use the murknet as their primary net source. See the other BBS for details. If you don't have access and need it now, catch me somewhere interactive and online.
Status 11:39pm Sunday: newmoon is ON the FUCKING. NET. And downloading security patches as quickly as its little brain will let it. Yay! I'm doing the Happy Ed Dance. This means we might have a mail server again sometime tomorrow, at least for individual users. Lists... will take longer. Retrieving old spool files will take similarly long. But new mail? Soon.
Status 10:18pm Sunday: Installing a zillion packages from CD image. I'm worrying about netcard drivers, but I'll leave that for after the basic package set is installed and hopefully running. Sooooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooow.
Status 7:36pm Sunday: Surface validation on a 120G drive takes FOREVER. Still installing linux 3.0r2. As in, this may be an overnight job. We're ordering in pizza. so we can keep working on things. Anna is pulling files off of backup for a couple of people who are particularly desperate for older versions of data, just to have something. IF YOU RELY ON US FOR DNS AND WANT IT BACK ONLINE IMMEDIATELY, I CAN DO THAT. I fixed that yesterday, except for all the data we can't get to yet on the old machine. If it's important to have it now, reply to the "Murknet DNS" topic below and I'll set something up for you.
Topic: Murknet DNS
Topic: MurkMUSH accessibility
Topic: No luck yet with the new mail machine
Topic: Putting Mimi's data on Cub, updating DNS pointers
Topic: Messages I didn't think I'd see
** THIS ENTRY IS NO LONGER ADVANCE-DATED BECAUSE THAT REALLY SUCKED FOR NEW JOURNAL ENTRIES. **
Newest Status, 12:22am Tuesday: Pulled mail spools and a lot of other configuration data off of lodestone on a private LAN. The thing has all kinds of crap b0rked on it - it's drifting in space, life support is barely functional, and the warp drive is a hopeless pile of junk. Fucking Brazilians. We're having trouble getting spamassassin to invoke properly on newmoon, so no mail pointer updating yet. (V. sad.) But at least we've got mail spools so that people can get the mail that was already queued up when I pulled the plug. I've also got DNS files pulled down, and the mailman mailing list databank, so hopefully that might work again sometime this year.
Status, 8:45pm Monday: Mostly been busy with other stuff during the day today. Tonight, with Traest's help, I got pine/pico installed from source (pine can't be distributed in binary form) and, more importantly, spamassassin. Email soon, minions - soooooon.
Status 10:34am Monday: POP3 is running on newmoon. Also, we're creating a few user accounts on newmoon for people who use the murknet as their primary net source. See the other BBS for details. If you don't have access and need it now, catch me somewhere interactive and online.
Status 11:39pm Sunday: newmoon is ON the FUCKING. NET. And downloading security patches as quickly as its little brain will let it. Yay! I'm doing the Happy Ed Dance. This means we might have a mail server again sometime tomorrow, at least for individual users. Lists... will take longer. Retrieving old spool files will take similarly long. But new mail? Soon.
Status 10:18pm Sunday: Installing a zillion packages from CD image. I'm worrying about netcard drivers, but I'll leave that for after the basic package set is installed and hopefully running. Sooooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooow.
Status 7:36pm Sunday: Surface validation on a 120G drive takes FOREVER. Still installing linux 3.0r2. As in, this may be an overnight job. We're ordering in pizza. so we can keep working on things. Anna is pulling files off of backup for a couple of people who are particularly desperate for older versions of data, just to have something. IF YOU RELY ON US FOR DNS AND WANT IT BACK ONLINE IMMEDIATELY, I CAN DO THAT. I fixed that yesterday, except for all the data we can't get to yet on the old machine. If it's important to have it now, reply to the "Murknet DNS" topic below and I'll set something up for you.
Topic: Murknet DNS
Topic: MurkMUSH accessibility
Topic: No luck yet with the new mail machine
Topic: Putting Mimi's data on Cub, updating DNS pointers
Topic: Messages I didn't think I'd see