[RndTbl] MUUG Online is back online!
Gilbert E. Detillieux
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Tue Oct 26 12:34:51 CDT 2010
Hi all.
Some of you have probably noticed that the MUUG server was inaccessible
from the Internet since sometime last Thursday. This was affecting
access not only to the web and FTP services, but also to all the mailman
mailing lists. The problem now appears to be resolved!
The U of M campus network has a packet shaper that sits between the
internal network and the pipe to the commercial Internet. If it detects
too many very heavy traffic flows, it black-lists the host addresses
involved. For some reason, this happened to the MUUG server, possibly
due to a DoS attempt on it... (We're still investigating.)
Anyway, the networking group has now added the MUUG server to an
exceptions list, so this will (hopefully) not happen again.
Sorry for any inconvenience this extended outage may have caused.
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil at muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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