• Walter Bright (6/6) Aug 07 2023 The problem was caused by a failed upgrade to the NNTP software, so Jan ...
• Jordan Wilson (3/10) Aug 07 2023 Phew, my daily reading is back! Thanks Jan!
• Vladimir Panteleev (10/16) Aug 07 2023 forum.dlang.org keeps copies of all messages, and downloads them
• Walter Bright (2/4) Aug 09 2023 Sorry about that. Will include you next time.

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

The problem was caused by a failed upgrade to the NNTP software, so Jan Knepper 
reverted it to the previous version.

However, some messages from Jul 27 on were lost. If anyone has the messages on 
their system, save them. If we can't find them on a backup, send them to us and 
we can restore them to the server.

Huge thanks to Jan for getting this back up and running!

Jordan Wilson <wilsonjord gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 7 August 2023 at 17:28:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 The problem was caused by a failed upgrade to the NNTP 
 software, so Jan Knepper reverted it to the previous version.

 However, some messages from Jul 27 on were lost. If anyone has 
 the messages on their system, save them. If we can't find them 
 on a backup, send them to us and we can restore them to the 
 server.

 Huge thanks to Jan for getting this back up and running!

Phew, my daily reading is back! Thanks Jan!

Jordan

Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow.lists gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 7 August 2023 at 17:28:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 The problem was caused by a failed upgrade to the NNTP 
 software, so Jan Knepper reverted it to the previous version.

 However, some messages from Jul 27 on were lost. If anyone has 
 the messages on their system, save them. If we can't find them 
 on a backup, send them to us and we can restore them to the 
 server.

forum.dlang.org keeps copies of all messages, and downloads them 
as soon as they appear. You have SSH access!

More concerning is that if the NNTP database was reverted and the 
server started back up again, that means that some message 
numbers would now point at entirely different messages. So, now 
forum.dlang.org's database might become confused as a result as 
well.

It would have been nice to be in the loop so I could have helped 
avoid this situation; oh well!

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 8/7/2023 10:35 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
 It would have been nice to be in the loop so I could have helped avoid this 
 situation; oh well!


Sorry about that. Will include you next time.