Re: ROOT Server Outage...

Dear Fons,

Perhaps some location on AFS could be announced for the official documentation? Many labs have access to it.

Cheers

        Eduard

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Fons Rademakers wrote:

> Dear ROOT Users,
>
> due to a security incident, we were very unfortunately much longer offline
> than we ever expected. The incident pointed to a weakness in one of our
> services and identifying and fixing it took much longer than expected. Our
> sincere apologies and a thanks to the hackers for exposing the weakness. Of
> course, our server having the name "root.cern.ch" is like a hacker's honey
> pot, they all try to hack the root of CERN. ;-)
>
> To further mitigate future hack attempts we will be improving in the coming
> week our online infrastructure by moving services to other platforms. We hope
> to do this as transparently as possible with as little downtime as possible
> but early next week we may be offline for a number of hours when we move some
> services to other platforms. We will announce the down time ahead of time.
>
>
> Cheers, Fons.
>
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Received on Sat Jun 23 2012 - 13:03:20 CEST