[Olpc-sysadmin] Fwd: translate.laptop.org is not responding at all

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Thanks for doing this.. now if someone could do the same for
https://dev.laptop.org/translate as well :-P

Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Ed McNierney<ed at laptop.org> wrote:
> An excellent suggestion, and overdue, so I did it.  Let me know if you find
> any problems with it.
>
>        - Ed
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>
>> I put up big bold notices on all L10n related pages : please use the
>> template {{L10n-sl-migration}} if you find that I have missed any
>> page.
>> However, despite that, I noticed on IRC that some people were getting
>> confused - while we wait for translate.laptop.org to come back, can we
>> temporarily redirect dev.laptop.org/translate to
>> translate.sugarlabs.org ?
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Chris Leonard<cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Automated re-directs are great. . . until they don't work :-(
>>>
>>> I've copied this to the wiki-gang so that they are aware of the
>>> opportunity
>>> to chip in on updating the documentation (repointing links) for the
>>> Localization process on the wiki.
>>>
>>> cjl
>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>> <sayamindu at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'll probably put up a large notice on as many l10n related wiki pages
>>>> I can find to use translate.sl.org or translate.laptop.org so that
>>>> this confusion does not repeat.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sayamindu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Ed McNierney<ed at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris -
>>>>> Thanks.  Yes, he should, and would have - if he had known.
>>>>> There are two problems here.  Users had been using
>>>>> dev.laptop.org/translate,
>>>>> which had been redirecting to translate.laptop.org.  That was/is still
>>>>> working, but it should be redirecting people to
>>>>> translate.sugarlabs.org.
>>>>>  The server running translate.laptop.org was supposed to also redirect
>>>>> users
>>>>> to translate.sugarlabs.org, and it would have done so if the machine
>>>>> were
>>>>> working.  It seems that that machine went down sometime about a day ago
>>>>> and
>>>>> no one noticed or responded to it.
>>>>> So what happened was that dev.laptop.org/translate redirected to
>>>>> translate.laptop.org, which went nowhere.  What should have happened is
>>>>> that
>>>>> dev.laptop.org/translate redirected to translate.laptop.org, which
>>>>> should
>>>>> have been a DNS alias to translate.sugarlabs.org.  This would have
>>>>> produced
>>>>> the right result even if awk (the server responding to
>>>>> translate.laptop.org)
>>>>> was offline.
>>>>> Deep is back in action thanks to Sayamindu's help last night, and I'm
>>>>> responsible for fixing up the DNS work.
>>>>> - Ed
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Chris Leonard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Shouldn't Deep be using http://translate.sugarlabs.org/  ?
>>>>>
>>>>> The Tamil and Sinhala projects respectively.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/
>>>>>
>>>>> cjl
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org>
>>>>>> Date: June 18, 2009 7:16:04 PM EDT
>>>>>> To: sysadmin at laptop.org
>>>>>> Subject: translate.laptop.org is not responding at all
>>>>>> Deep from Sri Lanka is trying to use http://dev.laptop.org/translate
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> it is not working at all.  I can't connect to it, either.  The URL
>>>>>> redirects
>>>>>> to translate.laptop.org, which doesn't respond.  This seems relatively
>>>>>> urgent and serious for the folks doing the Tamil and SInhala
>>>>>> translations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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