Delay problem with FTP, SMTP, and Others Solved

Julien solved a delay problem that impacted a number of services, in particular FTP and SMTP. The effect was a long delay to connect to the FTP server or send an email through SMTP. The cause was wrong DNS configuration on the server itself; that is for the DNS servers used by services running on the server, not with the unet public DNS servers. I think we are all glad to see this problem finally fixed. Thank you Julien!

Update on "Server Down For the Day"

The problem mentioned in the last entry was resolved the same day, and was apparently due to an issue with the network card. A reboot of the server resolved the problem.

Server Down For the Day

The server will be down today. The machine shut down after a disk failure on hdi1. As I brought it up this morning, everything starts properly, except there seems to be a problem with the network. Julien will stop by later today to figure this out, so the server will be down today at least until this evening (PST).

Downtime Saturday March 4th

The server was shutdown remotely by this Saturday early in the morning (PST). We have been able to restart the machine only in the evening, so the server was down for part of the day. Sorry for the inconvenience.