A few people would have noticed this blog going off the air for much of the day:

I don’t think it was an attack this time, though I’m checking the logs to see if I can find anything.

Twice, roughly a week apart, the Apache server on Yuri (that is, the software, not the hardware) locked up and stopped serving web pages.

There’s an automated system in place that restarts Apache when this happens.

It didn’t work.

Manually restarting the web server didn’t work either.

I had to reboot the machine to get it back again.

The MuNu servers were subject to an attack recently, but that doesn’t seem to be the case this time. Just gremlins.

As for the amount of time we were off the air, recall that these servers are in Australia. During my afternoon in central Canada, the administrator was asleep.

Just thought you might like to know.

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