Hello everyone This has just happened. Most bots seem to have already reconnected successfully and so has the rc-pmtpa bot. Everything seems to be in order.
Regards, On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Alexandros Kosiaris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> -- Alexandros Kosiaris <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
