Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:46 pm
You have nothing for you to be sorry about it would have been a sensible suggestion under normal circumstances.marcusrg wrote:Oh, my, rookie issues here! Ok, Gorth. Sorry about that.
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Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:49 pm
Just don't upset DianeEl Viejo wrote:Well... with a little help from the two delightful bar-staff, of course!PhantorGorth wrote:... I run the irc channel
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:51 pm
Good. It wouldn't be half as much fun if somebody sensible ran it!PhantorGorth wrote:F.Y.I. I run the irc channel
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:51 pm
Indeed, my Wiki is a pure read-only backup and synchronization only goes one way. See also the announcement here.PhantorGorth wrote:I am looking to add my new OXPs to the OXP list. Even if I could add it in Maik's mirror site but I doubt the changes there are going to appear in the alioth.net site once it's back up.
The main wiki seems to suffer from an unreliable network card/driver. This was already the root of the outages in the past weeks. I'll inform Winston about it again, he planned to migrate the wiki to another of his servers until the networking problem is solved but apparently hasn't gotten around to doing that yet.
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:54 pm
Thanks for that info Maik.maik wrote:Indeed, my Wiki is a pure read-only backup and synchronization only goes one way. See also the announcement here.
The main wiki seems to suffer from an unreliable network card/driver. This was already the root of the outages in the past weeks. I'll inform Winston about it again, he planned to migrate the wiki to another of his servers until the networking problem is solved but apparently hasn't gotten around to doing that yet.
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:55 pm
Thanks for the heads-up Maik. 
It helps if we have an idea what is going on and what is being done about it.
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It helps if we have an idea what is going on and what is being done about it.
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Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:57 pm
Still the case here that when I click on a link and it times out but click on Refresh and it comes up. I've done about 12 different pages, same effect.
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:04 pm
And it's not your cache serving up the page then?SandJ wrote:Still the case here that when I click on a link and it times out but click on Refresh and it comes up. I've done about 12 different pages, same effect.
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:06 pm
Or ISP's cache/proxy?maik wrote:And it's not your cache serving up the page then?SandJ wrote:Still the case here that when I click on a link and it times out but click on Refresh and it comes up. I've done about 12 different pages, same effect.
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:36 pm
I can't deny it's flaky.
And no, it's not a proxy. From wiki.alioth.net/index.php/User:SandJ#Testing_the_Wiki_for_flakiness
But it's not down.ping wiki.alioth.net
Pinging wiki.alioth.net [213.230.209.151] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
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Request timed out.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.230.194.161: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=2033ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=56
Reply from 213.230.209.151: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=56
And no, it's not a proxy. From wiki.alioth.net/index.php/User:SandJ#Testing_the_Wiki_for_flakiness
TheWiki wrote:Testing the Wiki for flakiness
Yep, it sure is flaky. 17th June 2012 at 19:31.
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:46 pm
Check the IP addresses: one works, the other doesn't. Seems like some requests are being routed to a different server. Unfortunately, this partial rerouting even takes place when directly using the IP address. This could explain why it sometimes works and sometimes not.
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:40 pm
It seems it works again now. The URL wiki.alioth.net now consistently resolves to 213.230.209.151. Winston actually replied saying he is over both his ears in work but maybe he did fix it after all
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:46 pm
Confirmed...working properly
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:32 am
Working fine here too! Yay! Back to oxp hunting!
Re: Wiki Down
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:57 pm
Follow-up: We're setting up the wiki on another one of Winston's servers now, which is more reliable. Once everything works fine in the copy he will switch over the DNS record so that the URL points to the new copy. The whole procedure will take some days as both he and I are mostly busy with work at the moment.