Notices by Server Status - NAS (serverstatus@noagendasocial.com)

Out of an abundance of caution, I am going to bring NAS offline until there is an upstream Linux kernel fix available for CVE-2019-8912.

Note that NAS may be offline for a few days as a result.

Take this time to be with your friends and family OTG-style.

NAS is going to go down for a full-rack reboot in a bit. Didn't get around to it last weekend or the weekend before, so the time is now.

Prepare yourselves.

The downtime was a result of my failure to properly include certificate refresh requests in the automated maintenance scripts. Issue now resolved, certificate rotation automated.

The server will be offline beginning at 2AM UTC, four hours from now, for a period of two hours.

In light of the unexpected downtime of approximately two hours earlier, we will be bringing the server offline to perform additional tests to ensure the failure doesn't repeat itself.

And we're back from unexpected downtime.

The server hosting the NAS service was set to auto-update and reboot when necessary. Unfortunately, the script that auto-started the NAS service after reboot hung and resulted in the service not starting. I have corrected the problem. Future automatic updates shouldn't exhibit that behavior.

Server back up, 9 minutes ahead of schedule! :)

Maintenance period will begin at 2AM UTC, five hours from now. Downtime is expected to last less than two hours.

NAS is up and running without issue.

We will announce a schedule for a bi-weekly 90-minute maintenance period within two weeks.

As time goes on and stability increases, we will likely reduce this to a weekly scheduled downtime of one hour.