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Grex > Agora > #4: Grex System Problems - Fall 2015/Winter 2016 | |
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papa
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response 45 of 223:
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Feb 1 22:48 UTC 2017 |
I confirm that #42 is fixed. Thanks, Dan.
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tonster
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response 46 of 223:
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Feb 18 16:40 UTC 2017 |
Grex took an extended vacation due to problems with my ISP. AT&T was
never able to determine (well, honestly, they didn't even look) the
reason for the packet-loss i was getting, so they ultimately assigned a
new block of IP's. Things should be returning to normal as DNS continues
to propagate out.
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kentn
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response 47 of 223:
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Feb 18 20:41 UTC 2017 |
Thanks for getting things going again, Tony!
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papa
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response 48 of 223:
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Feb 18 20:55 UTC 2017 |
Glad to find Grex back on-line. Missed y'all while it was down.
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jhesse
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response 49 of 223:
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Feb 19 00:16 UTC 2017 |
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jhesse
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response 50 of 223:
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Feb 20 18:49 UTC 2017 |
Ack. Not sure what happened on #49. Sorry about that.
Update: Mail to Yahoo is working now. Thank you, if the fix was on this end.
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tonster
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response 51 of 223:
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Feb 21 13:17 UTC 2017 |
Ironically, this would have fixed that issue as Grex's IP changed so
Yahoo won't have blocked this one (yet).
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telnetuserid
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response 52 of 223:
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Mar 12 13:26 UTC 2017 |
I just performed ssl test for grex.org on ssllabs. The result is 'F',
which is probably caused by old software.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze?d=grex.org
I am looking forward for grex to improve in this area, i.e. supporting
TLS best practice.
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tod
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response 53 of 223:
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Mar 12 16:41 UTC 2017 |
can we read your report with netscape navigator?
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nharmon
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response 54 of 223:
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Mar 12 17:16 UTC 2017 |
I recommend nobody transmit any protected health information or processes any
payment cards via Grex. You've been warned.
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kentn
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response 55 of 223:
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Mar 13 03:21 UTC 2017 |
For improving in any such area, it takes time and effort to do so. And
if staff don't have time (which is quite often in the past few years),
then it won't likely happen. The last time we updated the OS, a number
of home-grown applications had to change significantly and it was a lot
of work for staff to get things working again. Updating the OS would
go a long way toward fixing any TLS issues, I'd expect, but that won't
happen without a lot of staff effort.
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telnetuserid
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response 56 of 223:
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Mar 13 18:33 UTC 2017 |
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telnetuserid
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response 57 of 223:
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Mar 13 18:53 UTC 2017 |
For this to happen, a planned downtime and maintenance
need to be performed.
Just gather the staffs and discuss everything.
Getting in touch with devio.us maintainer is also a
good thing to do, since they've successfully updated
their system to 5.8 without any major issue.
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tod
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response 58 of 223:
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Mar 13 23:54 UTC 2017 |
We'll conduct a change management review with the change advisory board
in the cone of silence tunnel below our facility over by the COTS
area. Those of you who have not been on the calls for this are free
to dialin on our closed circuit line by the entrance.
No cell phones or biomed bracelets are permitted.
Bring a dixie cup of hand sanitizer.
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papa
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response 59 of 223:
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Mar 14 10:51 UTC 2017 |
Does not sound pretty.
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tonster
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response 60 of 223:
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Mar 14 13:14 UTC 2017 |
downtime isn't the issue, it's for the staff to have the time to plan
and execute the upgrade. I've created VM's for the new system, but we
haven't had a lot of time to go beyond that stage. At some point
hopefully that'll change, but right now we're just trying to keep the
last remaining light on.
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tod
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response 61 of 223:
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Apr 7 17:40 UTC 2017 |
*sound of poopy trombones*
grex% slrn -f /a/t/o/tod/.jnewsrc --create
slrn 0.9.9p1
Loading /usr/local/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
Using newsrc file /a/t/o/tod/.jnewsrc for server news.provide.net.
Connecting to host news.provide.net ...
Failed to resolve news.provide.net
Run-Time Error
slrn fatal error:
Failed to initialize server.
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kentn
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response 62 of 223:
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Apr 8 00:03 UTC 2017 |
I think I had to get a free news account outside of grex to
get it to work. I don't think we can access provide.net for
news any more.
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mijk
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response 63 of 223:
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Apr 8 21:51 UTC 2017 |
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kentn
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response 64 of 223:
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Apr 9 02:31 UTC 2017 |
See: http://dotsrc.org/usenet/ as one way to get usenet news.
You need to register but I don't think costs anything.
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cross
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response 65 of 223:
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Apr 10 14:54 UTC 2017 |
Eternal September is popular with the kids these dats.
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mijk
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response 66 of 223:
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Apr 10 21:14 UTC 2017 |
I was just about to say the same, accept i probably am one of the kids. :)
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kentn
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response 67 of 223:
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Apr 10 23:36 UTC 2017 |
It takes some time to set things up, and of course, we need to
(according to some) start over with just a few of standard starter
items. So, we could see how it would work...Spring/Summer. We
don't really have a cfadmin any more, who would normally do this.
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tod
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response 68 of 223:
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Apr 11 03:39 UTC 2017 |
re #62
Once upon a time I could rely on UM ITD but they removed me like Napoleon
Bonaparte
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ryan
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response 69 of 223:
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Apr 28 14:13 UTC 2017 |
Just a FYI -
When logging in, the default tset command in my .profile was choking on what it
was finding my terminal to be: "screen.xterm-256color".
Fixed it by export TERM="vt100" in my .profile.
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