discuss: LDPDB down?
Subject:
Re: LDPDB down?
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
27 Aug 2002 19:54:40 -0000
Message-Id: <20020827195435.GA23311@riva.ucam.org>
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:30:38PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> On Monday 26 August 2002 07:09, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Hi, sorry if I missed an announcement about this. Is the LDP database
> > down? The web server on db.tldp.org has been unavailable for at least
> > some days now.
>
> I experienced undiagnosed catastrophic server failure on my AlphaServer
> 800 5/400. I ordered new RAM, but that did not resolve my ECC Error
> problems. I suspect I may need a new CPU, but I hesitate to fork out the
> dough when I really am not sure what is wrong.
>
> To tell you the truth, I didn't really think anyone but me was using it
> anymore. I made an announcement of the outage when it occurred, and
> nobody spoke up about it being urgent. That's why I have not panicked
> about it being down.
Ouch. I saw the original notice but didn't realize it had extended for
so long.
> Were you using it to generate the Debian LDP packages? Are you trying to
> do your monthly update?
Yes to both (sorry, I thought I'd mentioned that I used it). However,
it's not particularly urgent and I have other things to do anyway; with
Lampadas as close as you say I'm quite happy to wait for that.
Thanks for the update!
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
