Board "vacation"

[Ganneff]

Hi,

its back - obviously, or you couldn't read this post.

That wasn't planned - we got caught in an anti-DDOS handling null-routing the IP of the forum server.

The server itself was (and is) all fine, no problems there - it just had no connectivity anymore. And it took a while
to reach the correct people to get it back online.

Ganneff

[v&n]

One of the happiest moments for me since last week.

It would be nice if forum members could be given an alternative spot to interact (with admins, as well as with each-other) in case of long forum down moments like this one. Like some IRC channel or an alternative forum. Anything relevant started coming up in my search results (both google & duckduckgo) after 3 days since forum was down.

No big deal though, just a humble suggestion (or rather wish-list ).

[Ganneff]

One of the happiest moments for me since last week.

It would be nice if forum members could be given an alternative spot to interact (with admins, as well as with each-other) in case of long forum down moments like this one. Like some IRC channel or an alternative forum. Anything relevant started coming up in my search results (both google & duckduckgo) after 3 days since forum was down.

No big deal though, just a humble suggestion (or rather wish-list ).

You mean like the Debian Forums IRC?

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=47049

irc.oftc.net #debian-forums

[v&n]

You mean like the Debian Forums IRC?

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=47049

irc.oftc.net #debian-forums

Yup! And "Oops!"

I did try that, but on freenode, since the support channel (#debian) is on freenode.
(just checked and turns out that another #debian channel is also on OFTC! )

I had also joined #debianforums (on freenode) hoping it was a possible official spot since there was a 'chanserv' there which also announced this forums' link in its welcome message. But I happened to be the only human there all day long.

[Ganneff]

You mean like the Debian Forums IRC?

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=47049

irc.oftc.net #debian-forums

Yup! And "Oops!"

I did try that, but on freenode, since the support channel (#debian) is on freenode.
(just checked and turns out that another #debian channel is also on OFTC! )

I had also joined #debianforums (on freenode) hoping it was a possible official spot since there was a 'chanserv' there which also announced this forums' link in its welcome message. But I happened to be the only human there all day long.

No, the support channel is on irc.oftc.net, not freenode. Freenode is just a leftover one from ages past.
(Well, t be precise: The "official" channel is on the net where irc.debian.org points to. It does to OFTC. So its there...)

Ganneff

[edbarx]

Thanks for restoring the forum's connectivity.

[v&n]

(Well, t be precise: The "official" channel is on the net where irc.debian.org points to. It does to OFTC. So its there...)

Thanks for pointing that out. Now I understand better.

[GarryRicketson]

Hoping "the board" enjoyed it's vacation, any way, I am glad to see it is back
thanks

[i M@N]

One of the happiest moments for me since last week.

Hopefully i had no issue during this time!
This forum is so helpful, so many questions already have an answer here.

Keep up the good work admins & users ...

[kalle123]

+1

Good to have it back!!!!

[HITMAN]

After checking several times, and finding the site unavailable, I went to http://www.debian.org looking for news and found none. I went to the the official IRC but found no activity. So, totally guessing, thought maybe the forum went to http://www.debianuserforums.org. I joined thinking this may where the forum had moved. Now I have membership at two sites reading "Debian User Forums" (default bookmark titles). Happy this site is back up!

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I am very happy

I had serious withdrawal...

[Nili]

I'm glad that is again up!

[TRex2003]

I expected some email traffic about a "known outage", but there was none:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/20 ... 00622.html

[GarryRicketson]

I had signed up for the mailing list, too, hoping to see something, Never did post a question, boy, it sure is a busy list, over night my e-mail was filled with 100+ new messages,none even mentioned it, so I quickly asked to removed from the list, that is why I generally do not like to use mailing lists, I see by the date on yours, it was after I requested the removal.