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posted by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the severed-servers dept.

Linode (our server provider) is continuing with their server reboots to mitigate Meltdown/Spectre. This time, three of our servers are scheduled to be rebooted at the same time: lithium, sodium, and boron.

From TMB's update to our earlier story System Reboots: beryllium reboot successful; lithium, sodium, and boron soon to come [updated]:

[TMB Note]: Sodium is our currently-configured load balancer and we weren't given enough notice to switch to Magnesium (DNS propagation can take a while), so expect ten minutes or less of site downtime. Or temporarily add 23.239.29.31 to your hosts file if ten minutes is more than you can wait.

This reboot is scheduled for: 2018-01-18 at 0900 UTC (0400 EST). That is about 7 hours from the time this story goes 'live'. We anticipate no problems... that the site should resume operations on its own.

A workaround is to temporarily update your hosts file to include:

23.239.29.31  soylentnews.org

Upcoming: We just learned that hydrogen is scheduled for a reboot on 2018-01-19 at 05:00 AM UTC. Since we can get by just fine for a few hours on one web frontend though, no service interruption is anticipated.


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System Reboots: beryllium reboot successful; lithium, sodium, and boron soon to come [updated] 18 comments

[Update: Reboot of beryllium was successful and our IRC services were restored without issue. Hat tip to our sysops who made this happen so smoothly! --martyb]

Linode, which hosts our servers, is rolling out fixes for the Meltdown/Spectre bugs. This necessitates a hard reboot of their servers, and that means any guest servers will be down while this happens. beryllium is scheduled for a reboot with a two-hour window starting at 2018-01-17 07:00 AM UTC (02:00 AM EST). The outage should be relatively brief — a matter of just a few minutes.

We expect this will cause our IRC (Internet Relay Chat) service to be unavailable. We do not anticipate any problems, but if things go sideways, I'm sure the community will find a way to let us know via the comments.

Planning ahead, we have learned that lithium, sodium, and boron are all scheduled for a reboot at on 2018-01-18 at 09:00 AM UTC.

We appreciate your understanding and patience as we strive to keep the impact to the site to a minimum.

[TMB Note]: Sodium is our currently configured load balancer and we weren't given enough notice to switch to Magnesium (DNS propagation can take a while), so expect ten minutes or less of site downtime. Or temporarily add 23.239.29.31 to your hosts file if ten minutes is more than you can wait.

Previously: Scheduled SN Reboots Due to Meltdown and Spectre; 2-Hour Window Starts: Fri 2018-01-12 @ 10:00:00UTC


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:57AM

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:10AM (4 children)

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    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:12AM (3 children)

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      • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @03:19AM (2 children)

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:32AM (#624068)

    Since all of the current replies are spam, figured it would be a good idea to reiterate that most of us appreciate the SN team's dedication. Thank you.

    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:11PM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:11PM (#624342) Journal

      Very much appreciate your comment. Sometimes it DOES feel like a thankless job. It means a lot when someone takes a moment to speak up. Thank You!

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by inertnet on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:28AM (1 child)

    by inertnet (4071) on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:28AM (#624086) Journal

    Thanks to all of you.

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    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:12PM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:12PM (#624343) Journal

      Got a good laugh from that one... have a +1 Funny from me.

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