DMOZ site down

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hughprior

I see the http://www.dmoz.org site is still down (it is currently 29th March 2003, 14:00 GMT), and seems to have been down for the last 18 hours or so.

Anybody know when it will be back?

Anybody know why it's gone?

Anybody know why a nice friendly 'Closed for business - most of our PC are broken' type of page can't be put up so we know a bit more?

By, the way, in looking into this, I noticed there is a mirror (http://ch.dmoz.org/) which is still working. Why can't this mirror be more widely publicised (I didn't know one existed)? Why can't the down site redirect to an up mirror?
 

Hard drive crash.

Where would you have us advertise the ODP mirror? It has been announced on a number of bulletin boards. I'll make sure we have a thread about it in the "announcements" forum if it isn't already there.
 
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beebware

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I think he means something like change to DNS for dmoz.org to point towards the http://ch.dmoz.org/ mirror site. But with staff hoping to get the site back up as quickly as possible, waiting for DNS propagation could cause problems...
 
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kjpires

FYI: It doesn't look like you can do any of the administrative features on ch.dmoz.org. Oh well, I'll wait until the main site comes back.

Kurt
 
K

KingOfChaos

Damn. I am glad I found this place, otherwise I would have never have know what had happened.
 
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hughprior

DMOZ mirrors

You asked:
>Where would you have us advertise the ODP mirror?

Forget bulletin boards. Waste of time. You could put it on thousands and you would miss the main audience. 99% of DMOZ users will miss that.

Forget these forums. Waste of time. 99% of DMOZ users do not even know they exist.

There is only 1 place it should go. There is only 1 place it belongs. A clue: The site name is an anagram of OZMD.

Of course. http://www.dmoz.org

Check out, for example, http://www.php.net which has a number of mirrors. Where are the mirrors mentioned? On the front page of the site, including (bottom right of the page) a link to 'mirror sites' giving a complete list of mirrors.

Don't you agree?
 
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beebware

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Re: DMOZ mirrors

That may be an idea for ODP staff once we have multiple mirrors: since the ODP only currently has one proper mirror at the moment, it probably wouldn't be worth it...

If you are interested in providing a mirror, please see this thread for details: but be warned, the bandwidth is massive (IIRC the current mirror uses around 20Gb a week, but I'm not able to confirm that figure at the moment, so take it with a pinch of salt).
 

Re: DMOZ is down

On days when the ODP's hard drive is gone, the message pointing to a mirror would be down too.
 
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KingOfChaos

Re: DMOZ is down

Yep, it's back..but the editor only webserver pool isn't working <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" alt="" /> Since I use AOL (and we all know how much it sucks) I was really relying on that new feature to edit since it was so much faster.

I do hope they get it back to working.
 
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KingOfChaos

Re: DMOZ is down

Well, apparently I spoke to soon. Maybe there is also a router problem?
 
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rfgdxm

Re: DMOZ is down

I can get in as an editor now. Only thing down at the moment seems to be the internal editor fora.
 
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