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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Dang it.
« on: March 01, 2023, 10:44:13 PM »
Goshdarnit!

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I just got a status update.  Looks like we are going to be here a while...  ???


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Off Topic Discussion / Re: I was promised lewds and fighting
« on: March 01, 2023, 08:39:21 AM »
A guy could make a fortune selling sports bras in here...

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I will smite a fool while we wait!

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Server Move and Outage Reports / 5/22/22 Database error
« on: May 22, 2022, 09:09:33 PM »
Oh noez!

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Common Slowpokes
« on: July 19, 2021, 05:04:34 PM »
Just posted by the boss:

"Calguns.net will be offline for a security update to the vBulletin software. If all goes well we will be back up in 20 minutes. If all does not go well you will likely be able to hear me screaming obscenities as far away as Utah. Kestryll"

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: CG.NET Down?
« on: April 05, 2019, 09:21:59 AM »
I also noticed it lagging hard last night.  This morning getting the occasional H-sphere errror.  Hit refresh and it loads correctly. Rinse/repeat.  Must be all these last minute mag folks trying to get up to speed?

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Not loading? 4.12.17
« on: April 12, 2017, 05:22:32 PM »
Someone forget to feed the hamster again?

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: dot net down 1/13/16 6:38am?
« on: January 13, 2016, 09:48:50 AM »
main site is back up

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 11/23/2015 16:45 Down again?
« on: November 28, 2015, 09:37:25 AM »
This is the error I see when trying to enter the forums now:

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Fatal error: Memcache is not installed in [path]/includes/class_datastore.php on line 186

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I have a question. If I were to buy a hand gun via PPT from someone out of state and fail the backround check. What would happen to the hand gun?

You don't buy a handgun via PPT from out of state. There is no such thing. It is not legal. PPT is **ONLY** for transfers between two residents of CA, who both have valid CA state issued ID.

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Handguns / Re: What do you have in jail?
« on: November 25, 2015, 10:17:19 PM »
Beretta Nano
Cz 83
Yugo SKS
free state Sig Mk25

I got my daughter's Savage Rascal out of jail today  :P

Anderson Lowers are $40 on BF at my LGS - dang I am tempted, can you have too many AR lowers?

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 11/23/2015 16:45 Down again?
« on: November 24, 2015, 03:31:52 PM »

Nobody has to come up with excuses, for over ten years I've gotten straight answers whenever I've had a problem.

I don't care how unlikely it is I don't need them to prove jack squat because I've never been given a reason to mistrust Michael or PE/GV.


I agree - sometimes s*it just happens. It sucks when it does, but I don't care if you are big or small, this kind of thing can bite anybody.  Now everyone go clean some guns or turkeys, maybe put some lead downrange, and let the geeks do what they do to get the train back on the rails.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 11/23/2015 16:45 Down again?
« on: November 24, 2015, 03:28:32 PM »
Hmmm... Interesting that we cannot resolve www.calguns.net via DNS anymore. Even if the primary DNS servers, SOA for calguns.net were afflicted by the hardware failure, I would have expected  DNS look up to be cached atleast for 3 days ( refresh of DNS record  is 3 hours I think) by down stream DNS servers?! Please correct me if I am wrong on this assumption .. :)

Calguns DNS is hosted at the provider who is down. DNS records are cached according to a TTL value that is provided with each record. However some recursive DNS servers (like your ISP provides) ignore these values and cache according to their own timers.  In any case, the provider itself (ProfEdge) also hosts its own DNS. So lookups cannot be done, because recursive DNS servers (like the Google 8.8.8.8 server for example) can't even reach PROFEDGE to get IPs for their DNS servers, to then query them for CALGUNS hostnames.

But it doesn't much matter, because the info we have about the failure says that even if we could resolve an IP for host www.calguns.net, the web application server which front ends the database is down.

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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: 11/23/2015 16:45 Down again?
« on: November 24, 2015, 11:07:20 AM »
I'm with you.  Problems and their consequences are often not entirely avoidable.  But you can mitigate outages by preparing (and spending money) for outages. 

Assuming they're using a SAN from a vendor like NetApp, IBM, EMC, or Hitachi, they should have a support contract.  FFS, when just a disk dies on one of my SANs, the vendor is willing to send a warm body to swap the SOB.  And a good support contract also means parts are on the way before you even have to ask.  If it really hit the fan, there would be a team of people driving gear to one of my facilities, pulling it out of labs at their corporate HQ, or otherwise doing whatever they had to for a return to service. 

With the nature of the outage (customer data, but also their DNS servers appear to be offline, and thus no mailhost/MX records), it looks like they stored everything on the SAN (bad move #1), had no secondary site (bad move #2), have no disaster recovery (DR) plan (stupid stupid move #1), and basically put zero thought into recovering from a worst-case scenario. 

I'd still put $5 on "everything lives in virtual machines and every virtual machine lives on one SAN".  Derp. 



I'd agree that nearly everything is probably running from VM and shared storage. But they alluded to a cascade hardware failure and also having to do restores.  It could be their chassis cooling failed, causing several disks to die off - more than the RAID level they use could tolerate, necessitating a complete restore after they get equipment spares. It could have been the data center cooling too.  I'm just spitballing based on the limited info we have.  If it was just a SAN switch, a restore would not be required.

I am a believer in your own DNS being hosted by a 3rd party.  At least that way when things go tango uniform in your data center, you can quickly point A records at a backup site to at least give clients status updates. This is a lot faster than updating your DNS servers at the registrar and waiting for propagation, just to give status updates or receive mail.  It also allows you to have a lower priority MX record always published and pointing at a backup store & forward mail service, to be used when you have problems like this.

They should also revive their twitter account, it is a great way to give status updates.

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