aioe.org is running in casters-up mode

May not be as bad as that--it was aioe.com that's parked.

nslookup finds

and its alias gioia.aioe.org at

46.165.242.91. That address returns a ping, but not http, https, or nntp.

It finds nntp.aioe.org at 46.165.242.75, which is findable by traceroute, and hosted by leaseweb.de, but pinging comes back "Destination host unreachable"

So it may just be wedged.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

On a sunny day (Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:51:35 -0500) it happened Phil Hobbs snipped-for-privacy@electrooptical.net wrote in snipped-for-privacy@electrooptical.net:

~ # host news.aioe.org news.aioe.org has address 46.165.242.91

~# telnet news.aioe.org 119 Trying 46.165.242.91... telnet: connect to address 46.165.242.91: Connection refused

So its down. There was a lot in the news about Microsoft email outlook stuff not working today.... Seems they did some update... that did not work right. Maybe messed up more than just Microsoft...

Traceroute from here to the last IP with a response gives ~ # ip_to_country -i 195.122.182.146 ip=195.122.182.146 (3279599250) "GB" "UNITED KINGDOM"

I recently (few days ago) changed newsserver to solani.org, as eternal september has irritating log delay times and was 100% down too a few days back, then I emailed them, then it worked again... still very slow.. solani so far is OK.

Someone posted on the Thunderbird newsgroup (alt.comp.software.thunderbird):

"The RAID controller failed and its failure damaged the contents of the disks. Today or tomorrow they let me know what can be recovered, if nothing the recovery times will be long"

Does someone know some more about this? Did they discontinue the NG service?

Repeat after me: "RAID is not a backup strategy"

RAID 1 does mirror the drives, so that is effectively a backup strategy *for the failure of one drive*, but if the RAID controller goes wonky (as is apparently the case here), then it can corrupt data both drives, so you do need a totally separate backup that does not involve the RAID controller.

Of course, that separate backup is no use if the whole building burns down, so you also need a separate backup in a different location, preferably elsewhere in the world in case the entire city gets damaged by a natural disaster. (If the entire world gets damaged, then you've probably got bigger problems to worry about. :) )

Raid 1 is a bandaid Raid 5 is two bandaids crossed over Raid 10 is surgical silver oxide gauge plaster

Does anyone have any updates on aioe.org's revival or non-revival? (Wouldn't it be quicker to just start a newsserver from scratch with new drives than trying to resurrect old data?)

Are there any other good free newsservers to use that do not require an account?

:-(

If your Australian there's news.ausics.net if your not an aussie, don't bother, you can't access it

There you go being all logical and stuff. I suspect it's more of a "we need to buy new (and expensive) hardware to run something that we don't make any money from" problem.