FDCPS Severe Outrages thread

[AMDave]

**** CONNECTION DETAILS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOT CURRENT ****
*** PLEASE REFER TO THE "How to get started thread" > here < ****


COMPLETED - Planned outage 14-15 nov

There will be a planned outage of the FDCPS project server at the end of this week. 14-15 NOV.

The purpose of the outage is to relocate the project to a new server.

Preparations have been made to make this as simple for the participants as possible.

If your llrnet client config file is addressing the server as 'primesearch.free-dc.org' then you should not need to change anything.

In order to minimise any errors we have shortened the knpairs file on IB-7773.
The pairs that have been removed are ready for your clients on the new server.
IB-7773 will be run dry (ETA 13 NOV), allowing your clients to empty their cache and the server to capture the last of the results from that port.

At that point your client will become idle.

Just leave your client running and when the DNS change is complete, it will resume normally.

Once the project DNS change is implemented your client will begin picking up new work from the new server.

The project DNS change may take 24-48 hours depending on the rate of refresh of the DNS cache of your ISP.

Exceptions:
1) If the client config is set up to address the server by the IP address, you should change it to the project server name instead 'primesearch.free-dc.org'.
(Refer to the "How to get started" thread)
2) If you are running the client under Unix/Linux and have added the project server to your hosts file you will need to update your hosts file with the new IP address.
3) If you run a local DNS server / cache you may wish to force a DNS update


Any changes to this release will be posted here.

Thank you for your patience during this change.

AMDave

[AMDave]

The transition occurred a bit earlier than planned.
The DNS cascade was much faster than expected.

Examining the transfer rates per participants per hour it looks like all clients carried across without a hitch.

The stats export from the new server yesterday did not cantain some data from the old server leading up to the transition. This resulted in a 'negative' stats update for some participants. However, the new server has now been updated with the data from the old server and the stats export has made up the difference, returning the stats to the normal and correct values.

Because of unexpected the speed of the DNS cascade, some pairs were left unprocessed on IB-7773. Those pairs have been made available on PCZ-7774 for clean-up.

Cheers to PCZ, Bok and Beyond for the help in the transition.

That pretty much concludes the transition.

Thank you for your patience.


A very special "Thank You" to Ironbits for the incentive, inspiration, ideas and infrastructure that got FDCPS to where it is.
He's a Champion!

[Digital Parasite]

Yup, everything seems to switch over pretty well, except that the new server still isn't handing out many primes...

[Shish]

I'm only running an x58 with 8 instances but I keep a small cache so nothing was even noticed. Congrats to the squad for a succesful, not too? stressful move. All your work is appreciated, especially IB for getting me into it, even if he is on sabbatical or retired . Can't stay on holiday for ever bud, come back soon cos I actually miss you.....
My lowly thanks to AMDave, and the usual crew of Bok,Pcz and Beyond for your tireless work on behalf of Free-DC and DC in general. Dunno where you guys find the time and energy cos I'm retired and I can't find any of either

[AMDave]

/ed- Thread title updated to reflect new status. See thread posts below -ed/

The FDCPS Project is currently offline.
The outage was planned to relocate to an alternate host.
However the new server is experiencing an unplanned connectivity issue that may take a day or two more to be resolved.
Further information will be posted when available.

[AMDave]

Update - Progress is being made
The broadband connection has been restored.
Middle-ware upgrades are in progress and dynamic testing is in progress.
I'll update next when access will be restored.

[AMDave]

lots happening.
migrated the site from 32 bit arch to 64 bit arch to take full advantage of 8GB ram
moved to a different and slightly faster OS distro
upgraded all middleware to current stable versions and latest patches
that forced more than a few code changes to the web site and server scripts
re-factored a lot of code while going through the spaghetti
retired ChartDirector and introduced ajax flot charts
most of the bugs are knocked out
located a port 80 block in the WAN that "is not supposed to exist" and worked around it
just a couple more issues (2, I think) to work through before we can resume this crunch-fest
after that, tuning and miscellaneous bug fixes will resume in the background
back soon ...

[AMDave]

LAN and MAN testing completed.
WU's are being completed and processed correctly.
The server seems pretty stable over the last 6 days.
WAN testing commencing.

[AMDave]

DNS changes completed and verified.

In the words of the great Duke Nukem, "Come get some!"

FDCPS is open for business.