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Grex Mnet Item 57: m-net status
Entered by trex on Sun Dec 31 17:06:46 UTC 2000:

Well, m-net doesn't seem to be responding.   From the messages that I got
on the remote system logger, it looks like someone has set off another fork
bomb.  Preventing this from happening again will be the first priority when
m-net comes back up.   I'm guessing this may not be until after the first of
the year, though.  We should also look into a way of doing a remove cold
reboot.

have a happy new year!

21 responses total.

#1 of 21 by md on Sun Dec 31 17:52:47 2000:

What's a fork bomb?  Is that what that kid did that damaged the 
hardware so badly it had to be replaced at a cost of $3,000?  ;-)

#2 of 21 by trex on Sun Dec 31 22:01:42 2000:

nevermind, it's back :)

#3 of 21 by mdw on Mon Jan 1 02:01:05 2001:

I thought freebsd had some sort of anti-forkbomb logic built in? Fork
bombs have definitely become a non-issue on grex since we took steps to
build an effective defense against them.

#4 of 21 by ric on Fri Jan 12 03:37:34 2001:

Probably something that has to be enabled, and was overlooked...

#5 of 21 by jerome on Thu Mar 22 14:13:15 2001:

M-net is refusing telnet connections.

#6 of 21 by jp2 on Thu Mar 22 14:42:55 2001:

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#7 of 21 by jerome on Tue Apr 10 19:22:28 2001:

Connection attempts to m-net are timing out.

#8 of 21 by jmsaul on Tue Apr 10 21:03:37 2001:

There's a problem with the password file, and Rex and Tony are working on it.

More details as they're available, but some people may be able to get on now.

#9 of 21 by krj on Tue Apr 10 21:10:51 2001:

ah, that explains why my ID doesn't exist.

#10 of 21 by jep on Wed Apr 11 14:05:01 2001:

It's back up now.

#11 of 21 by md on Thu Apr 12 10:46:36 2001:

[Universe starts breathing again.]

#12 of 21 by iggy on Tue Jul 10 17:38:13 2001:

down!

#13 of 21 by slynne on Tue Jul 10 17:42:17 2001:

waaaaa

#14 of 21 by jmsaul on Tue Jul 10 19:21:13 2001:

Temporary down to do a system update.  No biggie.  Back up by 5.

#15 of 21 by iggy on Tue Jul 10 20:23:34 2001:

move along... nothing to see here.

wimmin just get so panicky during 'that time of the month'.

#16 of 21 by jmsaul on Tue Jul 10 21:41:58 2001:

Down until 11pm.

#17 of 21 by slynne on Tue Jul 10 21:54:16 2001:

But one can read bbs via webyapp! :)

#18 of 21 by cyklone on Tue Jul 10 21:58:35 2001:

How'd we go from 5 pm to 11 pm?

#19 of 21 by tonster on Tue Jul 10 22:02:02 2001:

I know that the system after the upgrade suddenly wanted to fsck the 
drives.  I don't know why it is now 11pm though.  Last I heard from 
Rex, he was on his way to Livonia to fsck the drives.  He must have 
found more issues.

#20 of 21 by jerryr on Tue Jul 10 23:01:45 2001:

"due to complications in system upgrade, m-net will be down until 11pm."
     -- rex

#21 of 21 by tonster on Wed Jul 11 03:09:37 2001:

At this point I don't think we have an estimate.  Currently the upgrade 
is failing on stuff that should be working.  We're working on it.

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