:: 31-Jan-2006 11:35 GMT (Tuesday) ::
We’ve fixed the keymaster issues with RC5-72, and all of our proxies have
filled their buffers again.
Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
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2006-01-31
chrisj [31-Jan-2006 @ 11:35]
2006-01-29
chrisj [29-Jan-2006 @ 18:10]
:: 29-Jan-2006 18:10 GMT (Sunday) ::
We’re experiencing some problems with the keymaster at the moment. This means
that some of our proxies have run out of work for RC5-72.
As a result, some of you may not be able to fetch new workunits from the
proxies.
THIS IS ONLY AFFECTING RC5-72. Clients running OGR will continue to function
normally, and clients in their default configuration will gracefully fallback
to doing OGR until RC5-72 work is available again.
We’ll let you know more as more information comes to hand. Sorry for any
inconvenience this has caused. We’re working as hard as we can to get the
system back up and running properly.
2006-01-22
decibel [22-Jan-2006 @ 12:35]
:: 22-Jan-2006 12:35 GMT (Sunday) ::
I’ll be doing some maintenance on stats today, so there may be some brief
outages.
2006-01-17
dbaker [17-Jan-2006 @ 22:12]
:: 17-Jan-2006 22:12 GMT (Tuesday) ::
Hi, folks.
As Bovine announced 18 months ago in this plan entry:
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/planarc.cgi?user=bovine&plan=2004-06-28.08:48
we are shutting down the *.v27.distributed.net DNS entries and finishing the
migration to v2.9 clients. All v27 DNS entries now point to 127.0.0.1 in order
to avoid problems in some of the older clients if the DNS failed to resolve.
All current clients should already be using the *.v29.distributed.net servers,
so this should not impact any clients or proxies. If you haven’t upgraded your
client or proxy software recently, I recommend visiting:
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.php for clients
http://www.distributed.net/download/proxies.php for proxies
Thanks for your contribution.
2006-01-13
decibel [13-Jan-2006 @ 11:58]
:: 13-Jan-2006 11:58 GMT (Friday) ::
Ok, firefox is out-foxing me I guess…
If I enter http://midasnetworks.com/ into the URL field, it pulls the website
up just fine. But clicking on that link is actually broken. Wee.
Anyway, working url is http://www.midasnetworks.com/
decibel [13-Jan-2006 @ 11:39]
:: 13-Jan-2006 11:39 GMT (Friday) ::
Fritz has been successfully moved to it’s new home. Since we wanted to minimize
downtime, we used a fast transport protocol (http://lnk.nu/decibel.org/7m1.jpg).
Luckily, the MTU on this protocol was plenty large to allow transporting fritz
without the need to fragment it (http://lnk.nu/decibel.org/7m2.jpg). It’s
doubtful that other transport protocols could have handled this
(http://lnk.nu/slacker.com/7m3).
In any case, thanks again to http://midasnetworks.com for providing fritz with
a home in Austin!
2006-01-12
decibel [12-Jan-2006 @ 15:32]
:: 12-Jan-2006 15:32 GMT (Thursday) ::
http://stats.distributed.net will be moving to http://midasnetworks.com in
approximately 2 hours. If everything goes well, downtime should only be 45-60
minutes.
bovine [12-Jan-2006 @ 04:37]
:: 12-Jan-2006 04:37 GMT (Thursday) ::
There will be a planned stats outage starting around Jan 12 23:00 UTC,
as we relocate the server to a new hosting facility. We hope to bring
stats back online within a couple of hours. There will be a followup
plan announcement once service has been restored.
2006-01-04
snikkel [04-Jan-2006 @ 17:25]
:: 04-Jan-2006 17:25 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Several new v2.9012-497 release candidates for x86 have been added to the
pre-release page. Eager users interested in helping provide test coverage
and report any issues for these new sets of clients can download them from:
http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php
Please report any issues by filing at bug at http://bugs.distributed.net/
Included with client version 2.9012-497 is an exciting speed improvement for
OGR. A brand new MMX OGR core has been added that is substantially faster on
most chips. P4 chips especially gain ~40% over the previous cores, and ~150%
gain over the GARSP 6.0 cores.
Since there are dramatic speed differences with these new clients,
we welcome users to report new benchmarks to our speed database at
http://www.distributed.net/speed/