Hi, On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:32 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexandros Kosiaris wrote: >>This is to inform you that on Monday Feb 22nd 2018 ~10:00 UTC, the >>infrastructure powering irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted for >>security upgrades. This is expected to only impact bots that are using >>irc.wikimedia.org AND are not able to automatically reconnect on >>connection failure. From recent experience (the equipment was rebooted >>210 ago last time, with no fallout) those are very limited in number >>these days. > > Thank you for this notice.
Sorry for not answering sooner, I 've just seen this. > > Do you know if it's still the case that per-wiki channels on > irc.wikimedia.org are not available/able to be joined until there's > activity on that wiki? I did not know that, but I just researched it and that is still the case. For future reference the code in question is in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/operations-puppet/browse/production/modules/mw_rc_irc/files/udpmxircecho.py;b2d13fbc838a7f994a2e97fdffc07f15fe88bc29$49 > My memory is that reconnecting to irc.wikimedia.org > has not usually been the issue (as you note), but instead it's been that > there's a speaking bot account on the network that would only create a > channel after there's some activity to report about that wiki. For larger > wikis with lots of activity, this means the channels get created nearly > instantly after a server restart. For smaller wikis with little activity, > this means that the channels may not get re-created for days or even weeks. I have no such recollection but it does make sense. > > I just tested irc.wikimedia.org again and it appears that joining/creating > arbitrary channels is not allowed. This makes me think that bot accounts > and others would be disallowed from joining small/quiet wiki channels > until those channels are re-created by by the server/rc-pmtpa, unless some > kind of whitelist or workaround has been implemented. That's true. But I don't expect this to cause any kind of major problems and experience up to now supports that. But thanks for bringing it up. I learned something today. -- Alexandros Kosiaris <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
