I’m planning on disabling ftp services here for security reasons.sftp works better and is secure, eliminating any need for ftp.I will give it a little while so anyone still using ftp can transition, if you need any help, let me know…
Ending ftp services
January 8th, 2012Account management fixed
January 7th, 2012Both the ssl cert and the internal server error on the User Account Management page have been fixed…
agora upgrade complete
December 22nd, 2011All features should be operational now, including emumail (but please don’t save any mail you want to keep there! it will go away when I get the zimbra system operational next year) and automated paypal payment processing…
agora finally getting upgraded
December 21st, 2011I’ve cloned agora into a virtual machine and upgraded it to FreeBSD 4.11 – still old, but the latest it’s relatively easy to upgrade to. Every thing seems to be working, so I’ll swap them out tonight around midnight. It *should* be transparent but there are any number of details that might have gotten missed. Let me know if things turn up…
I’ll shut off email access around 10pm, as that’s one of the last things that’s still on a local disk. That way I can update the copy on the new system and not worry about losing anything in the transition.
This change retires a 10yr old system that is well past its prime, the amazing part is that it didn’t die years ago…
vmail.rdrop.com ssl certificate upgraded
June 27th, 2011OK, I was stupid — everyone is using vmail.rdrop.com for theoutgoing server, so of course, smtp.rdrop.com isn’t going to match. I’ve fixed that now by getting the right certificate so using vmail.rdrop.com as the outgoing server name (along with port 587 and “server requires authentication” and SSL/) will work.
smtp.rdrop.com ssl certificate updated
June 26th, 2011I’ve installed a new, “real” (i.e. trusted) ssl certificate on smtp.rdrop.com, so any problems associated with SSL should be eliminated for sending mail…
file server disk
June 26th, 2011When it rains, it pours: the fileserver appears to have lost a disk; it’s redundant, but it appears that while it was trying to recover, it stopped responding for a while, which caused various problems. Things are working again, and I’ll get a replacement installed later today…
virtual machines down
June 22nd, 2011The solid state disk holding the os for the virtual machine server failed today; fortunately, I was just in the process of starting to move the virtual machines to a new, faster, more redundant, server, so I’m just doing them all at once now. It’s a time consuming process to copy gigabytes of data around, however, so some services will be down for some time. The primary one is outgoing mail — use mail.rdrop.com and port 587 for that and you should be good though, and that will set you up for when I get the new mail server built (which was the real impetus for the new virtual machine server).
Router mishap
November 8th, 2010Ooops! While trying to fix one minor routing problem, I managed to lock myself out of the router, with restrictive firewall settings blocking access from other locations. I’ve replaced the router, fixed the original problem I was trying to solve and fixed the configuration to allow other access while still being secure. Sorry about that…
Agora downtime this morning
November 1st, 2010Agora rebooted this morning, and when it came back up, wedged trying to mount the fileserver filesystems. There appears to be a DNS race condition that I will work on resolving to keep this from happening again…