We will be rebooting the hypervisors this afternoon at about 2 pm to apply the updated kernel that fixes several high-severity vulnerabilities. The downtime will be around 15-30 minutes, and all websites hosted by the OCF as well as the login servers, Matrix server, Slack bridge, mail server, and the IRC server will be unavailable during the reboot.
migration to campus DC underway, expect downtime for ~2 hours
Update 3/12/2022: Migration completed by 14:00 yesterday. Currently our mirrors are IPv4 only, IPv6 ETA 2 weeks. Some Kali packages may not download correctly due to campus firewall settings, so if you experience any broken Kali downloads, please switch to the https version of our mirror. We are in contact with the university to get the issue sorted out as soon as possible.
We will be installing additional RAM on the mirrors server tonight at 8pm. Expect 15 mins of downtime.
Update: ETA 2130. Apologies, but the process turned out to be more involved than expected.
Update 2: The mirrors are up as of 21:30.
We will be upgrading the operating system on our web hosting (death), login (tsunami), and app hosting (vampires) servers this Saturday, 2/12/2022, beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific Time. All OCF-hosted websites and apps will be unavailable during the upgrade. We expect the downtime to last for about 4 hours.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
We are currently performing upgrades on the OCF mirrors server to accommodate more projects and improve the throughput. During this time, you might experience sporadic downtime and reduced performance. Please retry your downloads in a few seconds if you experience failures when downloading from the OCF mirrors.
We apologize for any inconvenience. We expect the upgrades to be completed by mid-February.
Later this semester, we will migrate the mirrors server to the campus datacenter to ease up the network load at the OCF lab*. The project is currently in the planning stages, so no definite dates are available. However, we will make a separate post on the status blog before we proceed with the migration. It is likely that the server's IP addresses will fall outside of the OCF subnet as a result of the migration.
Planned additions as of 2/6 2230PST (please note, this list is not final and may change without notice):
Fedora - initial sync underway
OpenSUSE - initial sync underway
Gentoo - up
Ubuntu Ports (releases) - up
Xfce
CentOS Stream - initial sync underway
Rocky Linux - initial sync underway
Qubes OS - up
Feel free to email help@ocf.berkeley.edu if you have any suggestions :)
*: subject to change
We will be rebooting our servers on Saturday, 1/22 at 2:00 PM PST for kernel updates. We expect the downtime to be around 30 minutes.
Most OCF services will be down on Saturday, 11/20 due to a scheduled hypervisor OS upgrade. Updates will be posted on this page.