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Grex > Agora > #4: Grex System Problems - Fall 2015/Winter 2016 | |
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kentn
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response 152 of 223:
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Oct 29 17:54 UTC 2017 |
Obviously, grex was unavailable for several days this past week. There
was a network hardware issue and it took a while to get hardware
replaced and hooked back up. I just got to grex via grex.org, so
that is working again. cyberspace.org works okay, too. New IP is
75.61.90.157. DNS is catching up with this change and most everything
should be working now, or will be soon.
Thanks to Tony for getting us going again!
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tod
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response 153 of 223:
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Oct 31 16:30 UTC 2017 |
Thanks
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kentn
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response 154 of 223:
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Apr 18 12:09 UTC 2018 |
Grex was offline for a while in the last couple days. This was due to
the huge ice storm that came through and knocked out the electricity in
a lot of areas around here.
Where I'm at the electricity was off for 4 hours, which is more than
enough for most UPSes to run out of energy to keep things going.
Tony was able to successfully booted again. Thank you, Tony!
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papa
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response 155 of 223:
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Apr 18 12:46 UTC 2018 |
resp:154
Glad Grex is back up. Thank you Tony and Kent.
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kentn
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response 156 of 223:
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Apr 20 21:17 UTC 2018 |
There have been some reports of connection and application issues since
we brought Grex back up. The web site and ssh should be working again
and so should mutt and mc. The RT help desk app doesn't seem to be
working right now so I'm unable to reply to validation and help requests
even though I can, when I find the time, work on them.
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cross
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response 157 of 223:
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Apr 20 23:13 UTC 2018 |
resp:156 What exactly is not working? Any error messages?
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kentn
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response 158 of 223:
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Apr 20 23:43 UTC 2018 |
Right now, it is a case of Firefox can't connect, but earlier it said
to contact the administrator (and that was all).
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cross
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response 159 of 223:
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Apr 21 01:54 UTC 2018 |
Hmm. It seems some file permissions were wrong; probably due to
me upgrading the web server. Are you still having problems? I'm
able to get into RT, but didn't try to do anything....
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kentn
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response 160 of 223:
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Apr 21 14:39 UTC 2018 |
It's working for me now. Thanks!
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kentn
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response 161 of 223:
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May 29 19:51 UTC 2018 |
E-mail may not be working for you if it requires a SSL certificate to
be up to date. Grex's SSL certs expired today and that seems to be one
reason. Another reason is that grex tends to be blacklisted on some
popular sites including gmail. My iphone was complaining about every
15 seconds that grex.org was not verified and it said the SSL cert had
expired.
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glitch
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response 162 of 223:
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Jun 5 20:58 UTC 2018 |
SSH is quite laggy, I'm logged in to a handful of other systems for work and
have no issues there, so I'm pretty sure it's not me.
Seems that the SSL cert has expired for Backtalk. Since we're on OpenBSD 6.3
here, we've got acmetool (a client for LetsEncrypt) right in the base OS --
not only are the certs free, but the update process can (and should!) be
automated with a cron job or /etc/daily.local entry. Ping me for help, I run
OpenBSD servers for $day_job :)
Finally, it seems /var/mail/glitch is gone and I can't get email here at the
moment.
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kentn
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response 163 of 223:
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Jun 14 02:13 UTC 2018 |
Email was moved to your home directory and is no longer in /var/mail.
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tonster
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response 164 of 223:
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Sep 6 07:32 UTC 2018 |
We should definitely setup letsencrypt for our ssl certs. I think I
started looking into it and then got busy with my own $day_job. :)
In other news, we were offline for the better part of 3 days due to a
storm on Monday. Multiple lightning strikes were reported by my
equipment, the closest being 0.3 miles away. It took out my internet
router, a video card, one of my STB's and caused some really weird shit
with multiple other computer components on my network. AT&T came out
this evening and got the internet back online. The graphics card for my
main pc was the biggest issue for me. :( Luckily I'll get that
Friday...but in the meantime, Grex is back....
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papa
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response 165 of 223:
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Sep 6 09:24 UTC 2018 |
Thanks, tonster. Condolences on the graphics card.
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tod
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response 166 of 223:
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Sep 6 17:41 UTC 2018 |
re #164
What was the STB? (Roku?)
Thanks for getting it back online
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tonster
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response 167 of 223:
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Sep 7 07:39 UTC 2018 |
resp:166: U-Verse receivers. My Roku devices are all still working fine.
I was rather surprised to see the U-Verse receiver dead. My network gear
all had to be rebooted after the strike, as they weren't passing
traffic. One of the switches I had to reboot twice before it finally
started working properly. All in all really weird shit I haven't seen in
storms up to now. All of the equipment was behind UPS' too, although I
suspect the surge that took out the AT&T RG probably came through the
phone line which is unprotected.
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tod
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response 168 of 223:
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Sep 8 01:10 UTC 2018 |
re #167
Zoinks. Must have been right in your backyard
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tonster
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response 169 of 223:
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Sep 18 13:04 UTC 2018 |
resp:168: Indeed. Annoying how much equipment I've lost this summer! I'm
still upset at having the UPS taken out a couple months ago. :(
I've now configured acme-client on grex and enabled/installed an SSL
certificate from letsencrypt. Still need to automate this so that it
renews automatically every 3 months, but at least it's now as simple as
running acme-client to generate a new ssl certificate, and then restart
nginx.
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tonster
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response 170 of 223:
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Sep 18 13:19 UTC 2018 |
ssl certificates should now auto-renew as well, and restart nginx when
it does...we'll see in December!
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tod
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response 171 of 223:
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Sep 19 03:48 UTC 2018 |
Yee hah!
letsencrypt ...i have higher hopes than Thawte
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kentn
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response 172 of 223:
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Sep 20 03:00 UTC 2018 |
Thanks for fixing up the ssl certs, Tony. That will help a lot.
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kentn
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response 173 of 223:
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Nov 1 21:55 UTC 2018 |
Time on Grex is almost 2 hours off. It's not the TZ setting we use.
For some reason the clock has wandered. Perhaps ntpd stopped running
or never got restarted? Or maybe a reboot knocked the clock out of
whack.
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tod
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response 174 of 223:
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Nov 5 22:17 UTC 2018 |
Grex is futuristic
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papa
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response 175 of 223:
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Nov 5 22:40 UTC 2018 |
Retro-futuristic
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cross
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response 176 of 223:
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Nov 5 22:48 UTC 2018 |
Interesting. Thanks for the report; I sync'ed it manually
(doas rdate -n pool.ntp.org) and it's now sync'ed as a
stratum 3 server.
I've found that the NTP server in OpenBSD tends to drift
occasionally, sometimes substantially; particularly on a
virtualized machine.
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