system

data centre migration and failed drive

The antiflux.org server moved to the new Tera-Byte data centre early yesterday morning. It came back online after the move but didn’t detect one of its drives. We have restored most of the affected services from backups, but unfortunately the gallery.antiflux.org files appear to be lost. It’s probably been a decade since the last upload, but it will still be missed.

Let me know if you notice anything still not working.

downtime notice

antiflux.org will be offline tonight to replace a hard drive.

Date: Wednesday, March 4
Time: 8:30 pm PST
Duration: about 30 minutes

downtime notice

We're going to take the antiflux.org server offline tomorrow to shuffle our disk configuration.

Date: Thursday, January 9
Time: 9:00 pm PST
Duration: about 30 minutes

All services including email and web hosting will be offline during this time. Incoming email should be queued on the sender's side and delivered once we're back online, so nothing should be lost or bounced. We'll post a notice at http://antiflux.blogspot.ca/ if something goes wrong.

antiflux.org outage notice

We're scheduled to take antiflux.org offline to replace a failed drive.

Date: Thursday, November 21
Time: 8:00 pm PST
Duration: hopefully less than an hour

All services including email and web hosting will be offline during this upgrade. Incoming email should be queued on the sender's side and delivered once we're back online, so nothing should be lost or bounced. We'll post a notice at http://antiflux.blogspot.ca/ if something goes wrong.

mail server now checks FCrDNS

I've noticed a lot of spam lately, so I added reject_unknown_client_hostname to check FCrDNS on incoming mail connections. According to the logs, it has already blocked a lot of obvious spam.

If you know of any legitimate incoming mail being bounced back to the sender with a message like "450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname", let me know.

disk errors affecting mail

The disk hosting email has been reporting errors, so mail delivery is currently offline while we migrate to a new disk.

Update 2019-08-20: Mail has been migrated to a different disk and has been up since Friday but there are still problems with the disk. We're getting a new disk tonight to fix the remaining problems. This will involve some downtime, probably a couple of hours.

Update 2019-08-20 (2): We're back up with the new drive. Mail is still offline while everything is migrating.

Update 2019-08-21: Mail is back online. Everything should be working now. Let me know if you notice any further problems.