Hello, I owe you an explanation about the problems we faced with the firmware downloads, repository.maemo.org and the windows update wizard server backend since Xmas till the beginning of Jan.
The infrastructure is built so that the content from repository.maemo.org is served thru a huge caching network. We were supposed to use the same network for the firmware downloads as well, but due to a misconfiguration and _my negligence_ all the requests ended up at our origin server (stage.maemo.org). Soon after the N810 launch the traffic dramatically increased and the server could not handle it anymore. It was actually never meant to handle such load. We first realized the problem with tablets-dev.nokia.com where it took ages to get any firmware. This was the time when somebody started a torrent for the new OS 2008 image which helped a lot. We could talk about why Nokia did not offer this, but I am not the person who will tell you the reasons. So the firmware images from tablets-dev could have never been served from the caching network properly, because our backend scripts did not send the correct HTTP headers back to the caches and the caches were not configured either to fulfill our authentication requirements. I take all the blame for this, so this is why I spoke about negligence above. I must admit that fixing this was on my todo list for ages. Almost at the same when tablets-dev "broke down" we started to receive complaints about the update wizard on windows failing to fetch images from our server. Well, what a coincidence... Making this backend work properly with the caching network required a one liner change in a script. This was done pretty quickly by the developers and the patch was applied a week ago. Right now I am confident that the requests coming form windows users end up at the caching network. Beside that I am pretty sure we also got some DOS attacks at the same time, which we clearly see at garage.maemo.org. I never went and checked logs at stage.maemo.org, but I suspect that we were hit on all fronts. We have taken the necessary measures to avoid these things in the future. I must thank my fellow Nokia colleagues (the file delivery platform and our team here), our ISP crew and our cache providers to help and find solutions for the problems. I believe if it was not a holiday season we could have solved these much faster. Never the less the problems should be over by now. If you still experience long delays, or weird HTTP responses then please mail me with the exact URL you're trying to access. Thanks for the patience, and apologies for the inconvenience we caused. Best regards, ferenc _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
