The twitter sphere is taking notice as well, I am going to use henriks
suggestion and go ahead and do a fire control tweet.

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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:16 PM
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Subject: [Drizzle-advocacy] drizzle.org was unavailable today

Hi all

Patrick, someone, I think the following could also be posted to the Drizzle
blog.

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The entire drizzle.org domain was unavailable for about 10 hours today. This
made our website, documentation, jenkins master and mail server
inaccessible. On the other hand as we use public services such as Launchpad
and Freenode for code repository, bug tracking, mailing list and IRC, this
meant that development work continued as active as ever - in fact I think it
was the most active day on IRC #drizzle channel in a while!

The DNS outage was related to our transferring of the drizzle.org domain
from an individual Drizzle developer to Software in the Public Interest,
Inc, our umbrella non-profit corporation. We don't know exactly why, but
something went wrong between the registrars, so that the Whois record listed
Tucows, the sponsoring registrar used by SPI, as the new registrar, but all
other information was still pointing to the old registrar, including some
Godaddy nameservers. As Godaddy eventually stopped answering DNS queries for
drizzle.org - as they should - the drizzle.org domain became unavailable. 10
hours later the issue was fixed, and the correct SPI nameservers started to
propagate through the DNS system. At the time of this writing, everything
should have been working normally for some hours already.

And yes, in related news, drizzle.org is now transfered to the ownership of
Software in the Public Interest. This is yet another step in our process of
becoming a solid non-profit community project, with fiscal services provided
by the SPI. So far the experience has been enjoyable and we've really felt a
warm welcome into the family of SPI hosted free and open source software
projects.

On that note I'd like to thank Ganneff, Solver and Hydroxide from the #spi
channel for actively helping in troubleshooting and fixing the problem
today.


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