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Slashdot is Moving

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there's-free-farmland-out-west dept.

As I mentioned yesterday, Slashdot is moving from Exodus East to West. This will be happening at around 11pm Eastern. We hope the downtime will be relatively minimal, but DNS may be a little slower to catch up. You can use brak.slashdot.org for a few days if your DNS is slow to catch up to reality. Hopefully we'll see you on the other side. Hopefully. In the meantime talk amongst yourselves. Here's a topic: Is Agent-X Deadpool?

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  1. Re:Perhaps I'm missing something but... by delphipro · · Score: 2, Informative

    Go see Exodus

    They are a data center company that provides co-location to companies with numerous locations across the US. I used to be at the one in Irvine, CA but moved to SBC (Pacific Bell). SBC makes Exodus look like a joke.

  2. Re:Perhaps I'm missing something but... by Fnkmaster · · Score: 4, Informative
    Well, Exodus is a bankrupt colocation company. At least last I checked they were bankrupt. They apparently were acquired (at least their assets and such were acquired) by Cable and Wireless back in February.
    I had a friend whose company was bought by Exodus. Luckily he managed to sell some of his Exodus stock before they fell into the shitter.


    Apparently some of their colo facilities must still be operated by Cable and Wireless - hope they aren't as empty as they were a year ago. I had some friends who went into an Exodus colo and said it looked like a ghost town at the time.

  3. DNS may take a while to update, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    Did you guys forget the lesson you should have learned last time, and fail to:
    Set the expire times to 12 hours a few days in advance, 4 hours on the last day, then half an hour in the last 5 or so hours, and three to five minutes for the last forty minutes?
    You'd almost think that an Internet company (OSDN) would have a clue about how to apply the underlying technologies of the Internet.
    1. Re:DNS may take a while to update, eh? by Electrum · · Score: 5, Informative

      Set the expire times to 12 hours a few days in advance, 4 hours on the last day, then half an hour in the last 5 or so hours, and three to five minutes for the last forty minutes?

      Why bother? With tinydns, you can specify a timestamp for each record and automatically handle updates:

      You may include a timestamp on each line. If ttl is nonzero (or omitted), the timestamp is a starting time for the information in the line; the line will be ignored before that time. If ttl is zero, the timestamp is an ending time (``time to die'') for the information in the line; tinydns dynamically adjusts ttl so that the line's DNS records are not cached for more than a few seconds past the ending time. A timestamp is an external TAI64 timestamp, printed as 16 lowercase hexadecimal characters. For example, the lines

      +www.heaven.af.mil:1.2.3.4:0:4000000038af1379
      +www.heaven.af.mil:1.2.3.7::4000000038af1379

      specify that www.heaven.af.mil will have address 1.2.3.4 until time 4000000038af1379 (2000-02-19 22:04:31 UTC) and will then switch to IP address 1.2.3.7.

  4. Re:Perhaps I'm missing something but... by Kurt+Gray · · Score: 3, Informative

    Exodus Boston 2 NOC is what we at OSDN call "Exodus East" and Exodus Santa Clara is what we call "Exodus West".