I found a way to fight off all the damn spambots. Hehe, who thought that it could be that easy. Registration now works again by using verification emails.
Posted by Akiko on Monday 27 February 2012 - 06:28:34
I switched registration to admin approval to get rid of all the bots. I also going to ignore weird email addresses and all the known for spamming (gmail, aol, mail.ru) ... In the last days it got really worse ..
Posted by Akiko on Thursday 16 February 2012 - 09:35:03
Actually it is no real maintenance. I moved the whole data (lost the ut3 servers) to a new provider and server. This new one is much cheaper, has half the power of the old one (which was a misconfigured dual Magny Cours, yeah right, a 24 core server), has a much better connectivity to networks outside of Europe and has additional 4GB RAM (now 16 GB). Now I have full control of DNS/nameserver/reverse-DNS again, damn I love it.
If you guys and pals run into a problem, just drop me a message.
Posted by Akiko on Wednesday 26 October 2011 - 12:17:24
The next days I going to do some big server changes. During this time the page can be offline for serveral days. Also the IPs going to change. So stay tuned. (hint: The changes will make it possible to run a TinNS server.)
Posted by Akiko on Monday 24 October 2011 - 13:28:19
The last days I made the biggest update I ever did. I moved to a completely new provider. That means I changed the hardware (this is a ver big server, it was a cheap one), I changed the underlying OS, got new IPs and I even moved the domain names.
Well, SSL is deactivated for now and I'm not sure if the repositories are fully working. I will look into this a little bit later.
It all started with some simple maintenance stuff. You know, I saw some very odd stuff at the shell and started investigating. There was no load on the server but the SoftIRQ load was at about 70% the whole time. I changed some stuff and restarted the server and it didn't come back.
Ok, now the dirty stuff... after the hardware got replaced and the main IP got changed, because there is/was a massive attack on my rootserver provider (and my IP was part of the attacked IP range). After that I figured out that this server was hanging in the PXE-Bootscreen (argh)... looks like the provider fixed their network/router/switches/images deployment servers (whatever) now and it seems to works again.. They had a 50 GBit (peak 100 GBit) attack some days ago which messed up the routing in the server center... The attack is still going on and is coming from Russia.
Hmm, maybe I should replace the aging OS again...
Posted by Akiko on Tuesday 15 June 2010 - 15:48:50
Akiko 12 Feb : 19:41 Yeah, I found the problem... There was a hidden BerkeleyDB update which also changed the file attributes... It should work again...