dev.laptop.org is down or unreachable - could it be related to this MIT planned outage?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 19:04, Henry Edward Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There may be some disruption of services at 1cc this week due to the > announced MIT Media Lab upgrades. At the moment we have no DHCP services at > 1cc. > > --HH. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jon Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM > Subject: [outages] Major file system outages and ML upgrade next week > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi all, > > In addition to the outages this weekend (while we rearrange our > machine room), we will also be upgrading our central file server > file.media.mit.edu (and its sidekick dell3.media.mit.edu) next week. > While this service interruption will be less major in scope than the > ones this weekend, it will still affect many systems here at the Lab. > It also needs to be done during a weekday so that we can have the > expert, on-site assistance of the file system software vendor. > > The outage will happen either next Thursday, August 28, or possibly > next Wednesday, August 27 (it depends on the availability of the file > system expert). Plan for Thursday and we'll let you know as soon as > possible if it becomes Wednesday. > > During the outage everyone's central Unix home directories, and > machines such as hub.media.mit.edu, ml.media.mit.edu, and > file.media.mit.edu (including any file shares they serve like machub > and winhub), will be unavailable. People's personal Web sites served > by web.media.mit.edu will also be unavailable. The outage will start > in the late afternoon around 3pm or so and will continue all night. > Everything should be back online before the next morning. Email and > general network access will be unaffected. > > There is a much less used file server, dell3.media.mit.edu, which will > go offline the day *before* the file.media.mit.edu outage. This should > only affect a small number of people who use this server to mount the > /mas tree under special circumstances in order to work around > compatibility problems with using file.media.mit.edu directly. This is > mainly Mac OS X people who have configured the automounter to provide > access to the /mas tree (and they should know who they are). > > Also during this time we will be taking the opportunity to upgrade > ml.media.mit.edu. This will involve a significant upgrade to ml's > hardware and operating system. > > Currently, ml.media.mit.edu is an AlphsServer DS20 running Tru64 UNIX > v4.0G. It will be replaced by a Dell PowerEdge running Linux. Email, > ssh, and ftp services will work as they do now, and the upgrade brings > with it newer versions of many utilities and packages. However, in > the event you have compiled some Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX) binaries for > use on ml, they, of course, will no longer work. > > Our apologies for any inconvenience as we try to fit in all these > infrastructure upgrades before the start of the semester. Please alert > us to any problems this may cause so we can work out solutions as > quickly as possible. > > Cheers, > NeCSys > If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > Techteam mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/techteam > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
