Boring part
- Talk Series
- Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Eve — no talk
- Next week, Wed 2 Dec — wcrichto on Rust
- After that, Wed 9 Dec — predragp on PF firewalling
- Looking ahead to Spring 2016 series?
- Treasurer's report
Status of Demosplash EventBrite check?
- Purchasing
- Hard disks
- Was approved on Saturday
- Racks
- PAL C64?
- SCSI2SD for X68000
- Hard disks
- Holiday cards/gifts
Interesting part
- Events
Movie Night — Tue 15 Dec, 21:00, Rashid — WarGames (1983)
- Retro Game Night — early Spring, date TBD, Kirr Commons
- Late Night CMU applications was submitted
- Prefer 29 Jan, 12 Feb
- Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, time TBD, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
- What will this involve?
- Can we respond to akohlbre committing to this?
- Open Hacking Hours
- No official Hacking Hours this week, Sat 28 Nov, due to the holiday
- Workshops for Sat 5 Dec?
- Operations
- Junk/scrap hardware
- storage-2/zinc upgrades (remnant of recent AFS patching)
- Disks ready to be ordered
- Plan to rebuild entirely on latest Debian, migrate data
- Give the new machine a new name!
- Third-party interference with scene.org mirrors
- Norton thought a demo accessible via contrib-test-vip.andrew was a virus, and thus flagged the entire andrew domain
- Per ISO request, awesie modified the Apache config of f5.club to block access to the file
- This is not okay — on one hand, screw overzealous antivirus companies; on the other hand, we don't want ISO blackholing our machines either
- How are we working to restore access to the file in question?
- Norton thought a demo accessible via contrib-test-vip.andrew was a virus, and thus flagged the entire andrew domain
- Details on mirrors / continuing need for F5 load balancer stuff
- f5.club is a CClub VM that serves mostly mirrors
It's running Apache and vsftpd, and has AFS and the NFS shares on the NetApp boxes mounted
According to mdille3 (See also Services/Contrib Webserver):
- rsync from the masters happens on mirror.club
Files end up in a hierarchy that is an NFS (from the filers) overlay of AFS (/afs/club/archive), with the big stuff going in NFS and smaller stuff in AFS
- FTP is served by www-node-1 (vsftpd) only; traffic is "handled" by lb-1 (backup lb-2), which forwards it to www-node-1
- HTTP is (in bulk) served by f5 and (initially) by www-node-{1,2}; traffic is "handled" by lb-1 (backup lb-2), which forwards it to www-node-{1,2}
HTTP traffic for mirrors (stuff in /pub) is redirected by www-node-{1,2} to "the load balancer", a fancy proxy system in A100 called contrib-test-vip.andrew that is configured (by CompServ) to retrieve from f5.club
- According to egarbade, contrib-test-vip.andrew simply forwards ports 80 and 443 to the corresponding ports on f5.club
- This was set up to provide some front-end protection, some caching (but not much), and to offload related bandwidth to upstairs
- rsync from the masters happens on mirror.club
If CompServ is no longer being tough on bandwidth limits, we may be able to simply quit using this if running through A100's F5 box does nothing other than hide bandwidth usage
- f5.club is a CClub VM that serves mostly mirrors