Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is Moving
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?
since I live in the east, I am looking forward to slashdot getting much much slower.
Thanks alot
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Do I get another 30 mod points?
We hope the downtime will be relatively minimal, but DNS may be a little slower to catch up.
It better be I don't know how long I can last with out slashdot, I'm going to start going through withdrawl!
*starts shaking*
Just a few more hours... just a few more hours.. just a few more hours...
I stole this Sig
Exodus is an upstream ISP. They own uber pipes on the coasts.
Being an Aussie with fuck all knowledge of american geography, I'll take a guess here. I'm assuming that they are moving from a datacentre hosted at Exodus on the East coast of america to a datacentre hosted on the West coast. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
No.. I mean Last Post!
hehe.
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There is one thing that has puzzled me about slashdot. That is that very seldom (perhaps never, at least I've never seen them) are any meta-topics posted like "why does the karma system work the way it does". Furthermore anyone who does raise such issues seems to (according to their moaning sigs and bitter journals anyway) be ruthlessly modded down as offtopic, perhaps even causing them to go all feral and troll-like.
What about some discussion that would release these pent up forces and dispel the illusion of "Gulag Taco".
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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.
After the move to Exodus West can the slashdot readership get an update on what hardware slashdot is running on? The description in the FAQ is dated and I expect the tech to change slightly if not largely with the move to Exodus West.
/. reader interested in a hardware update.
I'm sure that I am not the only
Being an Aussie with fuck all knowledge of american geography...
Gee, I thought it was only the yanks that had that problem!
You're using her as bait, Master!
Exodus Boston 2 NOC is what we at OSDN call "Exodus East" and Exodus Santa Clara is what we call "Exodus West".
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.