dev.laptop.org down or unreachable

[Morgan Collett]

dev.laptop.org is down or unreachable - could it be related to this
MIT planned outage?

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 19:04, Henry Edward Hardy <hhardy01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> There may be some disruption of services at 1cc this week due to the
> announced MIT Media Lab upgrades. At the moment we have no DHCP services at
> 1cc.
>
> --HH.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jon Ferguson <help at media.mit.edu>
> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM
> Subject: [outages] Major file system outages and ML upgrade next week
> To: outages at media.mit.edu
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> In addition to the outages this weekend (while we rearrange our
> machine room), we will also be upgrading our central file server
> file.media.mit.edu (and its sidekick dell3.media.mit.edu) next week.
> While this service interruption will be less major in scope than the
> ones this weekend, it will still affect many systems here at the Lab.
> It also needs to be done during a weekday so that we can have the
> expert, on-site assistance of the file system software vendor.
>
> The outage will happen either next Thursday, August 28, or possibly
> next Wednesday, August 27 (it depends on the availability of the file
> system expert). Plan for Thursday and we'll let you know as soon as
> possible if it becomes Wednesday.
>
> During the outage everyone's central Unix home directories, and
> machines such as hub.media.mit.edu, ml.media.mit.edu, and
> file.media.mit.edu (including any file shares they serve like machub
> and winhub), will be unavailable. People's personal Web sites served
> by web.media.mit.edu will also be unavailable. The outage will start
> in the late afternoon around 3pm or so and will continue all night.
> Everything should be back online before the next morning. Email and
> general network access will be unaffected.
>
> There is a much less used file server, dell3.media.mit.edu, which will
> go offline the day *before* the file.media.mit.edu outage. This should
> only affect a small number of people who use this server to mount the
> /mas tree under special circumstances in order to work around
> compatibility problems with using file.media.mit.edu directly. This is
> mainly Mac OS X people who have configured the automounter to provide
> access to the /mas tree (and they should know who they are).
>
> Also during this time we will be taking the opportunity to upgrade
> ml.media.mit.edu. This will involve a significant upgrade to ml's
> hardware and operating system.
>
> Currently, ml.media.mit.edu is an AlphsServer DS20 running Tru64 UNIX
> v4.0G. It will be replaced by a Dell PowerEdge running Linux. Email,
> ssh, and ftp services will work as they do now, and the upgrade brings
> with it newer versions of many utilities and packages.  However, in
> the event you have compiled some Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX) binaries for
> use on ml, they, of course, will no longer work.
>
> Our apologies for any inconvenience as we try to fit in all these
> infrastructure upgrades before the start of the semester. Please alert
> us to any problems this may cause so we can work out solutions as
> quickly as possible.
>
> Cheers,
> NeCSys
> If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to
> outages-owner at media.mit.edu  Thanks!
>
>
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