From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFFE138247 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C58DE0D77; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f176.google.com (mail-ea0-f176.google.com [209.85.215.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B165E0D72 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f176.google.com with SMTP id h14so2069054eaj.21 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:10:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=05Mj8mj2XeD+HI31AFyiZenMdzn8sfBEBFOkb1Q/toE=; b=n2IFbP6tSJJ+bbAfFKLZnluFfaZ4Ei/MpyK9oboryAYNes8Ul8yN+idp6dV45uw+v/ wiVm0dWkBhT7foY4RaQnoPzXdTv/117E+TbuWuy55UKRFpGzy+d7KRYrzbSxa38+Fznw PJsFfSY7gXicv20swqbyUnDnNrrtQ1YiP3RzRiKRBVvnmBsSn6ftnZ7myyr0+KlTUpZ4 xFOMCu0vzNMj4fe65AiKZ5Q9Lh3L4aUJ3B1g7Vnx3q8rPkABhsedRyxEbFJkj0E4OscX dJP7WKKO90UDdR5mGGsV/ZrDtzRiVhPASALZz99TFAwLOfsWxmfARMFLRGfKkr9h6+ok YByg== X-Received: by 10.15.75.200 with SMTP id l48mr91540eey.109.1390029011633; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:10:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-126-57.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 7sm32809233eee.12.2014.01.17.23.10.10 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:10:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52DA28D0.4090900@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:10:08 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlays.gentoo.org restoration & post-mortem References: <20140118050256.GF3378@orbis-terrarum.net> <52DA278E.2010703@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <52DA278E.2010703@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ef20aa47-82c5-4fe5-9de3-0d0b6beeeb2f X-Archives-Hash: 4138f2859bf8dd1f7241c47735aab3e5 On 18/01/2014 09:04, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> which could link to the >> > infra page would be good here perhaps, so when an outage occurred ( at >> > least on the web side ) appropriate links to infra could be given. > The more sane fix would be low DNS TTL and rotating DNS to a different > IP if things are down. > > That is already in place: $ dig overlays.gentoo.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.4 <<>> overlays.gentoo.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49989 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;overlays.gentoo.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: overlays.gentoo.org. 600 IN CNAME spoonbill.gentoo.org. spoonbill.gentoo.org. 604800 IN A 81.93.255.5 5 minutes downtime max if a switch needs to be done. 5 minutes is perfectly acceptable IMHO -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com