RIPE Database crashes ...

Dear Pascal Gloor,

Pascal Gloor wrote:

> Dear LIR's,
>
> What's up with the database ?
> Do you think it's normal that this machine crashes every 3-4 weeks ?
> Does RIPE need some more guys to manage that ?
> I think all LIR's whould be ok to pay RIPE a little bit more fee that RIPE
> may have a VERY HIGH BIGGER MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure).
>
> What do you think about that ?
> Or what else solution do you have guys (LIR's and RIPE)...

The good news is that the Database is up and running again. The server crash
did not affect queries, but delayed the updates. Nothing is lost and the
updates are now being processed.

To be honest, the last crash happened at the end of March, and that was a
hardware problem. What happened this time was a break signal sent to DB server
by the console server (which resulted in server reboot), the situation we have
not expected, but sure it will not happen again.

There is always a probability that something goes wrong, but we try to do our
best to minimize the problems it causes.


Regards,

Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC

P.S. If you really plan to mirror the RIPE Database, you will need to sign an
AUP. This is normal practice. Please write to <ripe-dbm at ripe.net> to discuss
this issue.


>
>
> to be continued ....
>
> Regards,
>
> Pascal
> PGL2-RIPE, AS6893, CH-PETREL
>
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