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Kernel.org Moves to Oregon
Bryce writes "Looks like the main kernel.org machine has
moved
to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.
"Last night, Peter Anvin took master.kernel.org (hera) down and handed it off to his friend, Javier. This morning, Javier flew it up here to Corvallis in his Cessna Skylane. This is the first time the OSL has had a server hand-delivered by plane, and so we were giddy as schoolgirls." Kees Cook, the senior IT guy at OSDL helped them get it installed and configured."
Head-lines crack me up ... it _sounds_ like the whole of kernel.org moved over to the OSL.
... however, its a pretty important piece.
Yes, this is the machine that acts as the "master" in terms of it replicates out to zeus1 and zeus2. The reason it was moved was that hera was hosted behind a T1 and the OSL offered to provide backup services. Its just a 2U box and its not the entire kernel.org
www.kernel.org != master.kernel.org
www.kernel.org is comprised of two insanely beefy boxes (see www.kernel.org for the specs). master.k.o is just a 2U 3Ware box where things are built and shoved at the front-end "beefy boxes".
master.k.o should be connected via I2 and www.kernel.org should not (as far as I know they don't have a path to Internet2 out of the ISC facilities).
UPS. $210. 10:00AM next morning.
UPS?! UPS?!!
There's no way I would every trust something that important to UPS - I'd expect to find the thing with a switchblade in it, as someone had to use the package in 'self-defense' or the box would otherwise be bashed and beaten. If I absolutely had to ship it, I'd use DHL (formerly Airborne Express).