[sf-lug] SF-LUG webmasters & ... Re: linuxmafia.com offline(!?) (SF-LUG list, ...) Re: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18

Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu
Wed Oct 24 10:49:34 PDT 2018 

Thanks Rick, for all the updates!

And, for SF-LUG, in the meantime,
if anyone(s) wanted to (temporarily) update/alter the SF-LUG web site,
there are at least 4 persons, in addition to myself, that have the
requisite access to do so:

# (for login in grantbow jstockford kdavalos thawley; do sudo -l -U  
"$login" | sed -ne '/^User /p;/sflugwww/p'; done)
User grantbow may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
     (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
User jstockford may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
     (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
User kdavalos may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
     (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
User thawley may run the following commands on balug-sf-lug-v2:
     (root) /bin/su - sflugwww
#

And, for bit 'bout what it at current says on the web site about the
list & related:
$ lynx -dump https://www.sf-lug.org/ | egrep -i  
'(^|[^a-zA-Z])list([^a-zA-Z]|$)|^   [15]\.'
    Members are anyone belonging to the sf-lug mailing list. Anyone
    interested in Linux may join the sf-lug mailing list: [1]sf-lug mail
    list.
    sf-lug mailing list. Postings should include the job title, salary
    skills requirements list with company policies and benefits followed by
    SF-LUG mailing list is supported courtesy of [5]linuxmafia.com.
    1. http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
    5. http://linuxmafia.com/
$

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: linuxmafia.com offline(!?) (SF-LUG list, ...) Re: SF-LUG  
> Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:23:49 -0700

> Don't know for sure, but I'd guestimate it may likely be issue
> with ISP or routing.
>
> $ dig +noall +answer +nottl linuxmafia.com. A linuxmafia.com. AAAA
> linuxmafia.com.         IN      A       198.144.195.186
> $
> # traceroute -nT -m 10 -p 80 198.144.195.186
> traceroute to 198.144.195.186 (198.144.195.186), 10 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  198.144.194.233  13.520 ms  15.674 ms  17.503 ms
>  2  * * *
>  3  * * *
>  4  * * *
>  5  * * *
>  6  * * *
>  7  * * *
>  8  * * *
>  9  * * *
> 10  * * *
> #
> I believe we're still both on same ISP, so likely issue within ISP,
> or some other dependency ... I think lines/circuits/routing have
> AT&T dependencies.
>
> # hostname
> balug-sf-lug-v2.balug.org
> # pwd -P
> /var/lib/named/etc/bind/master
> # fgrep -i ns1.linuxmafia.com sf-lug.org | fgrep @
>         IN      NS      ns1.linuxmafia.com.     ; 198.144.195.186  
> Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com rick at deirdre.net 1-650-283-7902
> #
>
> I do also have relatively fresh backups of SF-LUG list (mbox) & roster:
>
> $ ls -ld sf-lug_roster/sf-lug_roster sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
> -r--r--r-- 1 sflug sflug 72050877 Oct 18 21:31 sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
> -r-------- 1 sflug sflug     9365 Oct 13 06:32 sf-lug_roster/sf-lug_roster
> $ stat sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
>   File: sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
>   Size: 72050877        Blocks: 140880     IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: fe03h/65027d    Inode: 30232       Links: 1
> Access: (0444/-r--r--r--)  Uid: (29774/   sflug)   Gid: (29774/   sflug)
> Access: 2018-10-23 06:40:14.358531599 -0700
> Modify: 2018-10-18 21:31:01.000000000 -0700
> Change: 2018-10-23 06:40:14.622505200 -0700
>  Birth: -
> $
>
> The mtimes may remain the same if there are no updates (no subsequent
> postings nor changes to roster membership).
>
> I'll update if I hear anything relevant and appropriate to add.
>
> # traceroute -n -m 10 198.144.195.186
> traceroute to 198.144.195.186 (198.144.195.186), 10 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  198.144.194.233  111.819 ms  112.212 ms  112.450 ms
>  2  * * *
>  3  * * *
>  4  * * *
>  5  * * *
>  6  * * *
>  7  * * *
>  8  * * *
>  9  * * *
> 10  * * *
> #
>
> And thanks for noticing/mentioning!  :-)
>
>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>> Subject: Re: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18
>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:56:00 -0700
>
>> Confirmed ... at least to a first order approximation.
>>
>> I'll check further when I have time.
>>
>> I do also have alternative & out-of-band contact info. for Rick Moen.
>>
>> I should also have quite current backups of the sf-lug list data -
>> at least roster and archive, anyway.
>>
>>> From: aaronco36 <aaronco36 at SDF.ORG>
>>> Subject: SF-LUG Mailing list - late AM Tue 10/23/18
>>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:45:33 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>>> Hey there,
>>>
>>> Haven't run further diagnostic tests on this myself (yet!),  
>>> however the SF-LUG mailing list  
>>> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug seems to be offline  
>>> as of late this morning and so far this early afternoon.
>>> All I did was enter this exact complete mailman URL in my FF  
>>> web-browser, and the page eventually times-out with this message:
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ quoting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> The connection has timed out
>>>
>>> The server at linuxmafia.com is taking too long to respond.
>>>
>>> * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again  
>>> in a few moments.
>>> * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computers  
>>> network connection.
>>> * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy,  
>>> make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> Probably doesn't help all that much, but a simple 'traceroute  
>>> www.linuxmafia.com' reaches whatever firewall or other security  
>>> measures that may be at rawbw.net (198.144.192.34).
>>> No, am *not* myself going to run diagnostics using DIG and/or  
>>> Netmap on this!
>>> -A
>>>
>>> aaronco36 at sdf.org

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