SOLUTION to Forge Downtime

[lejovchina]

I do no criticize just for the sake of opening a micro flame war.
Besides, in the mainstream Joomla world, the sense/concept of community is often abused to depitct the whole thing as the big cohesive family we are not. This is starting to resemble the dictatorship of a few oligarchs.
Has this strategic decision been voted outside the Inner Party?
If it had, then we could invoke the so called "community" as a source of legitimacy.

Now the old forge goes down because of A, in a year the new forge will go down because of B (probably because code.google.com will take over the FOSS world)... I mean, an "enterprise ready" CMS cannot afford this permanent drifting.

My sarcasm is the consequence of a personal frustration with certain trends i have been silently observing for a few months.

Take my words the way you want. All i know is that situations like this just *CAN'T* happen, for the sake of the project itself.

Ahhh... And please, no volunteer "blackmail" reminders. FOSS is exactly about that. We are all volunteers here.

Ljv.

[deltina]

All day Firefox has told me that the server does not exist. So that gives me the impression that it, indeed, does not exist - not that it is slow or "down."

[brian]

looks like there may be a dns issue which is being looked at as we speak

[lejovchina]

oops

ian can you try right now. it looks like forge.joomla/org has been removed from dns

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch ... org&type=A

Seems so:

# dig +short forge.joomla.org
# 

Ljv.                           

[ianmac]

I can still connect without any problems.  Am I the only one?

Ian

[deltina]

I can't.

[ChiefGoFor]

This issue has been reported. Thank you for bringing it to our attention!

[ianmac]

All day Firefox has told me that the server does not exist. So that gives me the impression that it, indeed, does not exist - not that it is slow or "down."

There apparently was a problem.  If similar problems occur in the future, please do a search on the forum to determine if it has already been reported.  If it has not, please leave a message in the appropriate forum (Sites and Infrastructure) so that the matter can be attended to.

Thanks for your patience while this is being sorted out.

Ian

[sevenhelmets]

For the admins:

Perhaps it's time to lock this thread.  I never intended for this particular topic to be a forum to vent frustrations, only to air my idea that perhaps a backup might come in handy.  Seeing as this idea does not appear to be taken up any further comments on this thread are essentially pointless.

[brad]

This should now be resolved. I was setting up some even more redundant DNS zones and missed that one. Sorry.

[brian]

Thansk for the quick resolution, as always