Earlier today AU experience an extended service outage affecting the forums, blog and wiki. I was not immediately reachable, so I was not aware until sometime after 2pm, unfortunately. The web service was down, and the database was not responding, a restart of those services restored the system to a live status. Early this morning …
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OpenDNS stops working?
We use OpenDNS as yet another layer of security and control, as enforcement of our Acceptable Use Policy, as well as some phishing and malware protection. Today we suddenly found OpenDNS was returning perfectly valid IP addresses to queries for blocked domains, such as facebook.com. I checked our settings and nothing seems amiss, and more …
How Tweet it is…
sometimes testing can be so embarrassing…
The value of forums
There has been a lot of talk about the value of forums lately, especially where ASCnet is concerned. There is debate whether ASCnet sees the value of their own newgroups which are currently old USENET style nntp-based groups accessible only by dedicated news reader or a reader-enable email client. The attempted move to web forums …