<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Denis,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">we plan to switch from the current Whois update server, to a different server, sometime tomorrow evening. We expect a few minutes downtime for updates.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the update server, a read-only flag will prevent writes to the database. We will confirm all updates are replicated to the new server before switching. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">On each Whois server, maintenance mode will be turned on, which will cause incoming Syncupdates and REST API updates to be rejected (503 Service Unavailable).</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Incoming mailupdates will be queued up, and will be processed once maintenance mode is turned off.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We will announce to the working group again when the downtime has ended, and updates will be accepted again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Ed Shryane</div><div class="">RIPE NCC</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Mar 2018, at 02:34, denis walker <<a href="mailto:ripedenis@yahoo.co.uk" class="">ripedenis@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15381" class=""><span class="">Hi Ed</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15387" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15427" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15426" class="">Thanks for the notice. Can you explain in a little more detail what will happen if anyone submits an update during this downtime, or for any automated scripts that send in updates?</span></div><div class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15426" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15426" class="">cheers</span></div><div class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15426" class="">denis</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15426" class="">co-chair DB WG</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15382"><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15432" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15431" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15430" class=""> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15429" class=""> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15428" size="2" face="Arial" class=""> <hr size="1" class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> Edward Shryane via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net" class="">db-wg@ripe.net</a>><br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> Database WG <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net" class="">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> <br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 19 March 2018, 17:20<br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> [db-wg] Whois Update Server Migration<br class=""> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15434"><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Working Group,<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15433" class="">on Wednesday 21st March, we plan to migrate the Whois Update Server to a new configuration. This will cause a short downtime for Whois updates. Queries will not be affected.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15456" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15446" class="">We will also create a Service Announcement on the RIPE NCC website.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15445" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15444" class="">Regards,<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15443" class="">Ed Shryane<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15435" class="">RIPE NCC<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15442" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521490566700_15438" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>