:: 20-Jun-2004 00:16 GMT (Sunday) ::
Many new clients have been moved from the pre-release page to the
official release page. Many of the PPC based platforms received
performance increases in this new version. There was also an updated
Win32 MSI installer. You can see the list of the updated versions at
http://www1.distributed.net/download/updates.php
Yesterday, starting at about Jun-19 23:30 UTC there was a short DNS
failure on one of our servers that may have caused occasional
resolution failures. There was a slight amount of backlog, but it was
caught up soon afterwards. You can see the gap where no rate data was
collected in the graphs at http://www1.distributed.net/~pstadt/rc5-72/
Note that although the rates were missing for those times, there was
relatively normal fetching/flushing to the fullservers and the backlog was
primarily just sending to the keymaster. It is not expected that much,
if any, work was lost during that time.