Roller NetworkAs promised, we’re going to be upgrading our PowerDNS authoritative servers from 2.9 to 3.0 in order to address the previously mentioned long TXT records and AXFR support limitations. We will perform the upgrade on Saturday, August 13 starting at 10:00 UTC-8. We expect the upgrade to be transparent.
At that time long TXT record support will go live (they’re already supported in the ACC, just not publishable) and we’ll start working on the front end to manage AXFR. We appreciate your patience.
It’s just coming up on 04:00 in the morning here at Roller Network on a Saturday (we’re doing some off-hour line card insertions), and even though it’s summer in our part of the world the high desert climate of Reno still lends itself to suitable economizer cooling mode on our primary facility cooling systems every night almost year-round. Right now it’s about 60F (15C) outside and we’re using that air for cooling rather than run the compressors.
That’s pretty good considering we’re not way up in Alaska, and much better than other competing desert locations at night like Las Vegas (78F/25C) or Phoenix (88F/31C) where the night temperatures are much higher than ours in Reno.
We’ve decided to re-enable forum registration and see what happens with regards to spam bots and other junk-type registrations. Forums accounts can now be created online, but we will still manually review and activate them before a new account can post.
We’ve recently added Extended Validation Certificates (EV) to acc.rollernet.us and webmail.rollernet.us. These locations will now show the “green bar” in browsers that support EV (which is pretty much every modern browser).
We need to swap an array controller card in one of our servers due to excessive “verify fail” errors. We’ve already swapped the drive and the problem persists, so we suspect the controller port may be bad. The affected server handles RT and Asterisk for our office. This maintenance will take place after 18:00 UTC-8)
While the affected server is down the following services will be affected:
We are expecting about 15-30 minutes to unrack the server and replace the array controller. No services will be affected. This post will be updated as needed.
UPDATE: Completed array card swap successfully. Total time 18 minutes.