Thank you for letting us know! On Jan 26, 2012, at 3:13 AM, peterre wrote: > It is likely that iggy and my other bot, Eggbert on > #alternative_health, will be temporarily absent from the internet > for at least part of today - see the forwarded message from SATEXAS > below. > > peterre > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > Date sent: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:10:36 -0600 > To: Philip John Bradley <satexas222@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > From: SATEXAS <billing@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Send reply to: SATEXAS <billing@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: SATEXAS: 1/25/12 (Shell/Eggdrop News - Important!) > > > SATEXAS > Dear Members, > We have discovered a situation where the web server (Apache) has an > exploit that allows an attacker to damage the web server (and in > turn, the OS) in attempt to gain administrative access. > While we have over 30 servers in our farm, our shell/eggdrop servers > (3) are "unique" in that we don't "update" the OS (version of > Operating System) often like we do our web & mail servers. The basic > reason being that each time we do major OS upgrades, it generally > causes a situation to where eggdrops "break" and need to be > compiled... so for stability, we generally only upgrade them when > required. > Having allowed "Spurs", "Buzz" and "Raven" to "age", we are now > forced to do a massive upgrade on these servers, and we're going to > completely replace them in a swift-all-at-once operation. > On Thursday (1/26), we are going to perform this massive upgrade in > fully replacing the servers. The following will happen: > 1. Buzz will be replaced with a new server, and upgraded. > 2. Spurs will be replaced with a new server, and upgraded. > 3. Raven, who has very few accounts on it, will be folded into Buzz > (retired). > 4. Rooster was upgraded last week. > 5. ALL customer data will be moved, and we already do weekly backups > (so data is safe either way). > Downtime Expected: 1 hour > While upgrading, we WILL break the eggdrops... it happens when the > "unix libraries" change in OS versions. For this reason, we will be > going "account to account" and updating your bot FOR YOU. If for > some reason after the move, your bot does not launch, please let us > know... we will gladly fix/repair. We will also be updating our > "menu" script, that automated this process in the past. > We appreciate your patience during this massive migration, > thankfully it's something we only have to do every few years on the > egg/shell servers. > If you have any questions/concerns, please feel free to to use the > contacts below: > SATEXAS Staff: (210) 448-7289, support@xxxxxxxxxxx > Russ (SA Admin): russ@xxxxxxxxxxx > Thank you for your patience, and bearing with us on this, > Russ Bennett > SATEXAS > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > > <-><-> The unexamined life is not worth living.- Socrates What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.- Aristotle http://alamo.satexas.com/~dizzy/mensa.html