Re: [LAU] [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime

From: Marc-Olivier Barre <marco@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 17:38:08 EEST

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:22:49 -0400, "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <ico@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle:
>
> Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why
> there
> was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat.
> morning.
> Luckily we now have an UPS that gives us almost 2 hours of offline power.
> Hence, the server went through this unscathed. Yet, the network
> infrastructure was also down so even though the server remained up, there
> was no way of reaching it.
>
> So, I went investigating what happened, and this is the reply I got from
> our
> on-campus support:
>
> Squirrel fried in transformer. Campus and part of downtown was out of
> power
> on Saturday morning before the game. [this was a football game we had in
> town that day with 10K+ visitors]
>
> :-)

My bad, I enabled the "fry-squirrel" option in postfix's main.cf...

My deepest apologies to the families that wanted to watch the football
game.

-- 
Marc-Olivier Barre
XMPP ID : marco@email-addr-hidden
www.MarcOChapeau.org
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