waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/atom.xml2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.orgServer upgradehttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2023-01-132023-01-13T00:00:01+00:00<p>Work is commencing to upgrade <code>waxworlds.org</code> servers which will incur some
downtime to services.</p>
<p>Currently, <code>oak</code> and <code>ash</code> run Debian 10 (Buster). They will be upgraded to
Debian 11 (Bullseye), which is an LTS release.</p>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Scheduled upgradehttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2022-12-132022-12-13T00:00:01+00:00<p>On Friday 13th January 2023, work will commence to upgrade <code>waxworlds.org</code>
servers which will incur some downtime to services.</p>
<p>Currently, <code>oak</code> and <code>ash</code> run Debian 10 (Buster). They will be upgraded to
Debian 11 (Bullseye), which is an LTS release.</p>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Unscheduled downtimehttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2021-01-212021-01-21T00:00:01+00:00<p>Appologies for the unscheduled outage this morning.
A payment card expired. :(</p>
<p>All <a href="http://www.waxworlds.org/network-status">waxworlds.org services</a> should be back up and running
again now.</p>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Oak migration to cloudhttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2020-11-232020-11-23T00:00:01+00:00<p>Work to complete migration of <code>oak</code> to the cloud is being undertaken now.</p>
<p>This includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>mail services</li>
<li>user accounts</li>
<li>(secondary) web services</li>
<li>ssh keys</li>
</ul>
<p>Data to be migrated later (upon request):</p>
<ul>
<li>MySQL databases</li>
</ul>
<h2>Updates</h2>
<ul>
<li>[2020-11-23] (secondary) web services migrated</li>
<li>[2020-11-23] ssh keys migrated</li>
<li>[2020-11-24] mail on (old) oak disabled</li>
<li>[2020-11-24] user accounts migrated (changes on oak will now be lost!!)</li>
<li>[2020-11-24] DNS records changed</li>
<li>[2020-11-24] mail spools migrated</li>
<li>[2020-11-24] mail on (new) oak enabled</li>
</ul>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Upgraded PHP on ashhttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2020-01-072020-01-07T00:00:01+00:00<p>PHP on <code>ash</code> has been upgraded from 5.6 to 7.3. PHP 7.3 introduces lots of
<a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration70.incompatible.php">breaking changes</a>.
Please check that your websites still function correctly.</p>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Upgrading software on `oak` and `ash`http://www.waxworlds.org/news/2019-12-172019-12-17T00:00:01+00:00<p>Both <code>oak</code> and <code>ash</code> are to upgraded to Debian 10 (Buster) immediately. This is
in order to address security issues with packages that, while supported by
Debian, are no longer maintained.</p>
<p><em>Notes</em></p>
<ul>
<li>OpenSSH removed support for
<ul>
<li>DSA keys</li>
<li>SSH protocol version 1</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2>Updates</h2>
<ul>
<li>[2019-12-17] Synapse server (matrix) is currently broken by the upgrade.</li>
<li>[2019-12-18] Symapse server is upgraded and fixed.</li>
</ul>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Outage (equipment fault)http://www.waxworlds.org/news/2019-12-122019-12-12T00:00:01+00:00<p>Our internet provider has confirmed that there is an equipment fault at their
end which is causing an outage of <code>oak.waxworlds.org</code>. An engineer has already
been scheduled to address and resolve the issue but he will not be on-site until
Monday 16th December. Until then, <code>oak</code> will be down, I'm afraid.</p>
<h2>Effect</h2>
<p>Since oak has been partially migrated in to the cloud, web, DNS and chat
services are unaffected. The major service affected by this is email. We
shouldn't lose any mail -- SMTP replays hang on to it and retry delivery when it
fails -- but I'm also going to look in to whether or not I can migrating mail to
the cloud immediately.</p>
<h2>Updates</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>(2019-12-15) There seems to be intermittent line sync and some mail is getting
through.</p></li>
<li><p>(2019-12-16 1:32pm) Fault is fixed. We're back up!</p></li>
</ul>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Oak moving to the cloudhttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2019-06-042019-06-04T01:00:01+00:00<p>Over the next couple of weeks I will be migrating the user accounts and network
services that currently run on <code>oak</code> to a new cloud-based server.</p>
<p>This includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>email</li>
<li>matrix</li>
<li>user accounts</li>
</ul>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Jabber/XMPP decommissionedhttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2018-06-122018-06-12T01:00:01+00:00<p><a href="http://www.waxworlds.org/news/2018-03-12">As discussed</a>, the jabber service is now EOL. RIP.</p>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00Decommissioning Jabber/XMPPhttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/2018-03-122018-03-12T00:00:01+00:00<p>The XMPP (jabber) server is in a rather sorry state. It has not been
operational since an upgrade at the end of last year broke it. The database
needs to be upgraded to a new format, and neither the Debian package maintainers
nor the upstream ejabberd project provide such a facility. I had always
intended to manually migrate the data, but this now seems unlikely, give the
constraints on my time.</p>
<p>To that end, <strong>I plan to retire the waxworlds XMPP (Jabber) services on 12th
June 2018.</strong></p>
<p>We also now host a <a href="https://matrix.waxworlds.org/">matrix server</a> for chat.
Matrix (and riot) have proved to be a very successful alternative to jabber that
also works well on mobile platforms, handles multiple connections better,
facilitates posting images/files/links and is generally much more modern in its
approach to chat. Essentially, I would propose that he Jabber service is also
now redundant and my recommendation, going forwards, would be to use matrix
anyway.</p>
<p>If there are any significant reasons why you think I shouldn't EOL the jabber
service, or why you think I should attempt to manually migrate the data and
revive it, please <a href="mailto:admin@waxworlds.org">get in touch</a> before 12th June.</p>waxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/newswaxworlds.orghttp://www.waxworlds.org/news/feed/atom2023-12-11T02:00:02+00:00