FDCPS Severe Outrages thread

[AMDave]

FDCPS server is down due to an unplanned lightning strike which has upset more than just a few electrons.
Tomorrow I'll migrate the services to another machine, then see if I can recover the hardware.
ITMT - apologies for the outage.

[AMDave]

FDCPS server restored.
Sorry about the down time.

[AMDave]

Unplanned power outage in progress.
Large area is in blackout. No ETF.

[AMDave]

Unplanned outage of FDCPS project.
The server is not out.
The site is not out.
The comms are not out.
Microsoft has hijacked NO-IPs 23 free domains & DNS, with the permission of a US judge, to 'filter' out a few bad hosts and in (predictably) failing to do so appropriately has created a denial of service to pretty much everyone with a no-ip dynamic DNS.
ETF - unknown. Somewhere around the same time as someone important gets the judge out of bed to revoke the order probably.
Hosting a site from the southern hemisphere on an OS that has nothing to do with M$ does not keep you out of the M$ blast zone.
I object that a US judge deems that they can sign off that M$ can highjack an international highway to identify and stop the defective 'vehicles' that they built and sold instead of demanding they issue a recall.
This is no april fools day.

No-IP - https://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30...soft-takedown/
SlashDot - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/07/...tm_medium=feed
ArsTechnica - http://arstechnica.com/security/2014...no-ip-domains/

The offender - http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft...isruption.aspx

The fail:
"In the meantime, NO-IP / Vitalwerks have published their answer online:
Apparently, the Microsoft infrastructure is not able to handle the billions of queries from our customers. Millions of innocent users are experiencing outages to their services because of Microsoft’s attempt to remediate hostnames associated with a few bad actors.”

Hopefully normal service will resume shortly.

[Telnaior]

Well that's just a hassle. Thanks Microsoft! Hopefully things get back up soon, if nothing else I kind of like watching the LLR program run.

[AMDave]

in green or amber is my preference

DNS appears to be back again for the moment.

[AMDave]

FDCPS planned outage: 24:00hrs 2014-08-07 AEST - 2 to 5 days.
WHAT: There will be a planned outage of the FDCPS server for relocation of the hardware
WHEN: from 24:00hrs 2014-08-07 AEST .
DURATION: The planned relocation window is 5 days, target is 2 days. The shortest possible turnaround on the critical path is 24 hours, depending on network build tasks, lunar and astral alignments, the lucky number 16, the market price of Longjing in Zhejiang Province and whether the roaring forties happens to be blowing at the time.