[C] xemacsweb: resolve issue 34, merging stephen's updates and mine

Adrian Aichner adrian at xemacs.org
Fri Oct 12 18:03:26 EDT 2007


COMMIT

Sorry for the inconsistent format.

I'll try to simplify this for users and maintainers.

Adrian

xemacsweb ChangeLog patch:
Diff command:   cvs -q diff -U 0
Files affected: About/ChangeLog

Index: About/ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/About/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.215
diff -u -U0 -r1.215 ChangeLog
--- About/ChangeLog	12 Oct 2007 00:27:25 -0000	1.215
+++ About/ChangeLog	12 Oct 2007 22:01:43 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+2007-10-13  Adrian Aichner  <adrian at xemacs.org>
+
+	* XEmacsServices.content: Resolve issue 34, merging Stephen's
+	updates and mine.
+

xemacsweb source patch:
Diff command:   cvs -f -z3 -q diff -u -w -N
Files affected: About/XEmacsServices.content
===================================================================
RCS

Index: About/XEmacsServices.content
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/About/XEmacsServices.content,v
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -u -w -r1.68 XEmacsServices.content
--- About/XEmacsServices.content	12 Oct 2007 00:27:25 -0000	1.68
+++ About/XEmacsServices.content	12 Oct 2007 22:00:14 -0000
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
       <tr>
         <!-- Issue ID  -->
-        <th rowspan="4" valign="top">ID</th>
+        <th valign="top">ID</th>
         <!-- Service(s)  -->
         <th>Service(s)</th>
 	<!-- YYYY-MM-DD( HH:MM:SS UTC) Date found -->
@@ -48,18 +48,6 @@
 	<!-- YYYY-MM-DD( HH:MM:SS UTC) Date fixed -->
         <th>Date fixed</th>
       </tr>
-      <tr>
-	<!-- Error(s), Symptom(s) -->
-        <th colspan="3">Error, Symptom</th>
-      </tr>
-      <tr>
-	<!-- Resolution(s) -->
-        <th colspan="3">Resolution</th>
-      </tr>
-      <tr>
-	<!-- Reference(s) -->
-        <th colspan="3">References</th>
-      </tr>
 
 <!--
 Evaluate this expresssion below to insert a new, properly numbered
@@ -91,24 +79,42 @@
 
       <tr>
         <!-- Issue ID -->
-        <td rowspan="4" valign="top"><a id="issue34" name="issue34">34</a></td>
+        <td rowspan="7" valign="top"><a id="issue34" name="issue34">34</a></td>
         <!-- Service(s) -->
-        <td>all services of gwyn.tux.org: DNS for xemacs.org, ssh, http, ftp</td>
+        <td>all services of gwyn.tux.org are unavailable: DNS for xemacs.org, ssh, http, ftp</td>
         <!-- YYYY-MM-DD( HH:MM:SS UTC) Date found -->
-        <td>ca. 2007-10-09 22:00 UTC</td>
+        <td nowrap="nowrap">2007-10-09 22:17 UTC</td>
         <!-- YYYY-MM-DD( HH:MM:SS UTC) Date fixed -->
-        <td>?</td>
+        <td nowrap="nowrap">2007-10-12 13:00 UTC</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <!-- Error (s), Symptom(s) -->
+        <th colspan="3">Error, Symptom</th>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
         <td colspan="3">
-	  <p>Various error messages about not finding XXX.xemacs.org;
-	  bounced mail from addresses @xemacs.org; cvs update failing;
-	  Failure of all http://*.xemacs.org/ URLs</p></td>
+	  <p>All services requiring connection to an xemacs.org
+	  address fail, either due to failure of name service or
+	  connection time out.</p>
+          <pre xml:space="preserve">
+Sending failed; SMTP protocol error
+221 Closing connection. Good bye.
+450 &lt;adrian at xemacs.org&gt;: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found
+	  </pre>
+	</td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <!-- Resolution (s) -->
+        <th colspan="3">Resolution</th>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
         <td colspan="3">
+	  <p>The downtime was apparently caused by power outages.</p>
+	  <p>Unfortunately, our secondary DNS servers were not
+	  functioning either.</p>
+	  <p>We have now found a new secondary DNS provider and tested
+	  it to work properly.  We will be tuning our DNS
+	  configurations further.</p>
 	  <p>The only workarounds we can offer at this time is to use
 	  XEmacs resources which don't make use of the xemacs.org
 	  domain name.</p>
@@ -119,50 +125,26 @@
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <!-- Reference (s) -->
-        <td colspan="3">
-	  <p>Unfortunately we have no information about the expected
-	  downtime of resources at tux.org.  The site was up for a
-	  short time on 2007-10-10 from ca. 19:30 to ca. 21:00
-	  UTC.</p>
-	  <p>Following information will be updated as information
-	  unfolds:</p>
-	  <p><a href="http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/About/XEmacsServices.html#issue34">http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/About/XEmacsServices.html#issue34</a></p>
-</td>
-      </tr>
-
-      <tr>
-        <!-- one of (td th) -->
-        <td rowspan="4" valign="top"><a id="issue34" name="issue34">34</a></td>
-        <td>All xemacs.org services unavailable.</td>
-        <td nowrap="nowrap">2007-10-09 22:17:00 UTC</td>
-        <td nowrap="nowrap">&nbsp;</td>
-      </tr>
-      <tr>
-        <!-- one of (td th) -->
-        <td colspan="3">
-	  All services requiring connection to an xemacs.org address fail,
-	  either due to failure of name service or connection time out.
-	</td>
+        <th colspan="3">References</th>
       </tr>
       <tr>
-        <!-- one of (td th) -->
         <td colspan="3">
+	  <p>We have no information about the expected
+	  downtime of resources at tux.org.</p>
 	  <p>System reboot at 2007-10-10 18:21:00 UTC after power
 	    restored.</p>
 	  <p>But at 2007-10-10 23:00 UTC or so lost contact again.
 	    I'm assuming it's more of the same.</p>
-	</td>
-      </tr>
-      <tr>
-        <!-- one of (td th) -->
-        <td colspan="3">
+	  <p>Following information will be updated as information
+	  unfolds:</p>
+	  <p><a href="http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/About/XEmacsServices.html#issue34">http://xemacs.sourceforge.net/About/XEmacsServices.html#issue34</a></p>
 	  <p>The main XEmacs services hosted at gwyn.tux.org were
 	  unavailable due to loss of power to the host.  Since this
 	  host provides name service, other hosts became unavailable
 	    by their xemacs.org aliases.</p>
 	</td>
       </tr>
-      <!-- End of section to copy. -->
+
       <tr>
         <!-- one of (td th) -->
         <td rowspan="4" valign="top"><a id="issue33" name="issue33">33</a></td>

-- 
Adrian Aichner
 mailto:adrian at xemacs.org
 http://www.xemacs.org/



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