puzzling.org users

Upgrade complete. Please email root with any problems.

The sites should look the same, but the backend will be a bit different.

SHA1 fingerprint: AC:3D:E7:2C:46:18:B0:5D:92:65:2C:17:C7:07:5B:EC:D0:E0:4B:8C
MD5 fingerprint: 2B:AA:34:BE:E5:2B:31:E4:23:42:2A:4C:E2:D0:ED:04
The certificate is signed with the puzzling.org certificate.

Linode has given us more disk space, which has been allocated to various disks on the system. Check df -h for info.

puzzling.org is now running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Please send us an email if something’s stopped happening, something’s started happening, you’re getting an error message or similar things bug you.

SHA1 fingerprint: 16:7B:C7:D7:64:09:2F:BD:57:A1:4E:43:E0:49:E0:FE:F8:5D:EA:C0
MD5 fingerprint: 2F:E0:E4:01:65:A2:77:61:84:9F:06:50:9D:CD:75:16
The certificate is signed with the puzzling.org certificate.

The puzzling.org server is now running Feisty Fawn.

SHA1 fingerprint: 3C:AF:A4:CD:D9:76:DF:C6:C7:D0:0E:66:CB:01:3C:C3:CB:DD:B3:D5
MD5 fingerprint: 42:0A:69:C3:D4:54:8E:42:44:7D:AD:84:F8:65:53:E3

The old SSL certificate for fuchsia.puzzling.org expired and a new one has been issued with these fingerprints:

SHA1: 98:F3:81:0D:38:8F:1F:2C:9F:C6:9B:A9:D7:1C:83:FA:C3:C7:17:E3
MD5: 87:73:99:26:9C:FC:05:0B:C2:3E:B8:F8:1F:3C:0F:A9

This certificate will be presented on SMTP (mail sending) and IMAP and POP (mail receiving) connections. The certificate presented for web connections (the users.puzzling.org certificate) remains the same, as does the signing authority. Both were described in [...]

As of June 15 2006. Please email the admins with any system problems

Upgrade from Ubuntu 5.10 to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will occur on Wednesday 14th June 2006 from 10:30pm Sydney time onwards.

I set up my own certificate authority a while back for signing SSL keys associated with puzzling.org. I’ve finally gotten around to doing this properly, and so I am using the following keys for secure services:

one for users.puzzling.org, which will be presented when you connect to the website securely (usually for webmail). This one expires [...]

It’s time for another laborious round of upgrading everyone’s WordPress installation.
Here’s a todo list, will cross things off as I do them:

Database for logoscopy
users
buglinks
mafioso
perpetuity
totalwhatever
abstraktn
daize
allovertheworld
gardiner.id.au
frideswide

There’s been major slowness over the past few weeks related to intensive software I have installed, sorry about that. And then to top it off on Tuesday the host’s networking fell apart. All should be restored now.

I have removed the text-based browser links and replaced it with another version, elinks. You can still type links to run it. It is mostly the same: the major difference is that it can view secure (SSL) sites.

There was trouble with webmail for a few days, people logging in would have seen errors like:
open(/var/lib/php4/sess_…, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2)
This should be fixed now, please report any further errors.

The puzzling.org server is now running the new release of Ubuntu: 5.10 (”Breezy Badger”). For users’ purposes this boils down to having software that is six or so months newer.

There was an extensive puzzling.org outage from July 2 to July 5. This doesn’t seem to have been related to the Linode hosting problems at all: somehow the puzzling.org server shut down and stayed down. All it needed was manual booting. Unfortunately I wasn’t around (I was diving) from July 2 to July 4 so [...]

This one was for reasons fairly similar to the last one, and lasted for an hour, from 6pm to 7pm June 28, Sydney time. Details on the Linode forum: Another TP breaker trip.

There was a puzzling.org outage from about 6:30pm on June 26 to 1:30am on June 27 (Sydney time). This seems to have been due to the following Linode issues:

ThePlanet power problem
ThePlanet Routing Issues and Hosts Reboots (this was a previous power outage last week, overnight on June 19/20, see it for context)