Anticipated dizum downtime

usura

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Apr 10, 2020, 2:57:58 PM4/10/20

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Ola,

I'll (try) to do some maintenance these comming 4 weeks on the dizum infrastructure.

As some of you might know, XS4ALL (my host/colo) has been absorbed by KPN (the incumbent Telco in NL). I've setup my own infrastructure now but I'll change colo for that at the end of May.

In order to migrate 'seamlessly I'll copy the newsserver (news.dizum.net) to that new infra (but in order to that it's VM's need to go down, so mail-2-news will not work for a certain duration). I'll try announce this here. Once copied, I'll restart news.dizum.net (old) and update/upgrade news.dizum.com (new, new location) I'll initially peer with myself, but will try to het news.dizum.com connected directly to usenet. Onec that has been done I'll change the dns for news.dizum.net to point to the new server. This might messup some of the article numbering'.

I'll also relocate and update dizum.com, but that is less of an issue (famous last words).

Hope to have everything running on autopilot, starting from June 1st again.

Cheers & happy Jezus Zombie day.
-AJ-

Grant Taylor

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Apr 10, 2020, 3:43:27 PM4/10/20

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On 4/10/20 1:22 PM, usura wrote:
> Ola,

Hi,

> In order to migrate 'seamlessly I'll copy the newsserver
> (news.dizum.net) to that new infra (but in order to that it's VM's need
> to go down, so mail-2-news will not work for a certain duration).

Will something be handling email? (Read: Will posts via the mail2news
gateway queue waiting on the news infrastructure to come back online?)
Or is that going to go down too?

> I'll try announce this here. Once copied, I'll restart news.dizum.net
> (old) and update/upgrade news.dizum.com (new, new location) I'll
> initially peer with myself, but will try to het news.dizum.com
> connected directly to usenet.

Feel free to reach out to me if you want another Usenet peer.

> Onec that has been done I'll change the dns for news.dizum.net to point
> to the new server. This might messup some of the article numbering'.

I wonder if there will be any repercussions if article numbers change
while migrating from the old news server to the new news server. Or if
things will just work independent of article numbers. What in the
normal a.p.a-s flow cares, much less, uses article numbers? Article
numbers are usually important to readers than posters.

> I'll also relocate and update dizum.com, but that is less of an issue
> (famous last words).

Will DNS nameservers be changing at all during this? TTLs can bite.

> Hope to have everything running on autopilot, starting from June
> 1st again.

Cool!

Feel free to reach out if you want any (temporary) services.

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Nomen Nescio

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Apr 10, 2020, 4:10:04 PM4/10/20

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Many thanks for all that you do!

Alex de Joode

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Apr 10, 2020, 6:08:01 PM4/10/20

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us...@fake.sabotage.org sez:
: Ola,

It's broken now, sorry. I'll ask the DC to work on it on Tuesday (SAT-MON is a public holiday in NL).

Srry.
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Alex de Joode adejoode(at)zedz.nl

Neodome Admin

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Apr 12, 2020, 1:40:43 PM4/12/20

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We got you covered for the time being.

Thanks for all you do.

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Alex de Joode

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Apr 22, 2020, 6:38:40 PM4/22/20

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ad...@neodome.net sez:
: Alex de Joode <us...@xs9.xs4all.nl> wrote:
:> It's broken now, sorry. I'll ask the DC to work on it on Tuesday (SAT-MON

:> is a public holiday in NL).
:>
:> Srry.
:
: We got you covered for the time being.
:
: Thanks for all you do.

Tnx, should be up later tonight.

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-AJ-

Alex de Joode

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Apr 22, 2020, 7:29:28 PM4/22/20

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Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com> wrote:
: In article <r6qh17$cii$1...@toxic.dizum.net>

:

up again.

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anon

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Apr 22, 2020, 10:42:22 PM4/22/20

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On 22 Apr 2020, Alex de Joode <us...@despair.sabotage.org> posted some
news:r7qle4$3u8$1...@toxic.dizum.net:

Thanks!