[FreeBSD-Ops-Announce] Network issues to (ysv.)FreeBSD.org with portsnap effects

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

On 28 May 2013 10:58, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Some network issues (yet to be tracked down fully) are causing TCP
> connections to break to the primary FreeBSD.org site at YSV.
>
> The most noticeable effect is that portsnap mirroring is effected and
> the latest snapshot is broken due to truncated files - which mean
> anyone running portsnap fetch for the first time will get a corrupted
> snapshot.
>
> As the problem is with the firewalls there is a small risk of knocking
> the entire site fully offline while trying to fix this.

The good news is that the networking issue is fixed for now. Bad news
it that it caused a 15 outage for the entire site when the redundant
firewall failover failed.

We will be looking into exactly what happened.

PS. portsnap snapshots are still broken for new users, but it will be
fixed by forcing a full sync of the mirrors later today.

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Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hat: FreeBSD.org clusteradm