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distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.
:: 02-Mar-2002 18:24 GMT (Saturday) ::
Stats will be going offline in about half an hour so we can do some
maintenance. We’ll try and keep the outage to a minimum, but the
site might continue to be slow for a bit even after we’re back.
There will also be a brief outage sometime this weekend so that we
can bring the box up to FBSD 4.5.
:: 28-Feb-2002 18:26 GMT (Thursday) ::
We’re having some difficulties getting logs to blower after an IP address
change. We’re working on it, and stats should be running soon.
:: 27-Feb-2002 19:40 GMT (Wednesday) ::
Some network restructuring requires that stats.distributed.net be re-ip’d.
Please be patient if you experience any connectivity issues as things
propagate through DNS and settle down on this end.
Thanks.
:: 26-Feb-2002 13:42 GMT (Tuesday) ::
Be advised that some network changes are occurring at the datacenter
where blower (stats.distributed.net) is hosted, so there might be some
connectivity issues while the DNS changes propagate.
Some minor issues discovered during the mail server changes were
fixed. This included some disruption of service to the email block
fetcher/flusher, and also some bounced mail that was sent to some
distributed.net staff mail addresses. If you received a bounce to
something you were trying to email, you might want to retry now.
:: 24-Feb-2002 06:54 GMT (Sunday) ::
This plan entry is mostly just a test to see if our plan system is
fully operational again. Some more things have successfully been
incrementally migrated off of one of our old servers (this time email,
plans, email fetch/flusher) as of tonight. With luck there will not
be any observable glitches. :)
:: 30-Jan-2002 09:05 (Wednesday) ::
Please be advised that we are in the middle of finishing up a
migration of our webserver to a new machine, so there many be an
increase in broken things over the new few days. Among these things
may include planfiles, the plan mailing lists, web home directories,
and possibly other things. Do not panic, remain calm. Thanks.
:: 27-Jan-2002 01:22 (Sunday) ::
A few people have written me with an interest in the reasons behind the
decision to restrict arbitrary HTML in the “motto” field of teams and
participants. Although I’ve been replying individually when people email
me, I’ve created a FAQ entry that summarizes many of the reasons here:
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/faq/index.cgi?file=268
:: 22-Jan-2002 21:06 (Tuesday) ::
We’ve had to make some changes to what’s allowed to be entered in the
“motto” field for both teams and participants on the stats site. Previously
these fields where unrestricted text fields that even allowed raw HTML to
be entered, however we’ve recently decided that those fields need to be
restricted to a more limited subset of tags. If your participant or team
page included customized HTML tags, you should consider modifying them to
instead use the allowed square-bracket alternatives that are listed on
the editing page ([B]..[/B], [URL=xx]..[/URL], [BR], etc).
:: 16-Jan-2002 01:25 (Wednesday) ::
There appears to be a network problem at UD right now, so stats and cvs
(and one proxy) are unreachable. I’ve notified the appropriate staff.