Voting app offline time?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:51:15PM -0600, inode0 wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:08:15PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >> > >On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >> > >>On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:51:09AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >> > >>>On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:14:46AM +1000, Nigel Jones wrote:
> >> > >>>>We had some the original DB downtime ~1-2 hours, then downtime due to
> >> > >>>>fas not been around ~1-2 hours, plus a DB downtime of ~2-3 hours and a
> >> > >>>>VPN downtime of about an hour.
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>>All in all, I think it meets the 1 day extension criteria.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>>Yup, top-side estimates add up to 8 hours, so we should extend the
> >> > >>>voting by one day as agreed.  Make it so! ;-)
> >> > >>
> >> > >>And... after making the announcement, it's come to light that there
> >> > >>are some DNS issues outstanding which could potentially have presented
> >> > >>a problem to voters.
> >> > >>
> >> > >
> >> > >This one's been difficult to confirm.  We know there were some issues that
> >> > >have been resolved and so far slicehost is the only one having issues,
> >> > >which is almost certainly on us but so far no one has actually complained
> >> > >about any issues which is surprising to me but does point to a not widly
> >> > >spread issue.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > It could also mean they are trying to email about the problems but
> >> > cannot b/c their mailer won't let them email to a domain they cannot
> >> > find. :(
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > This is how I noticed the problem this morning from slicehost.
> >>
> >> What's the status on the DNS problems?  Were they resolved, and if so,
> >> approximately when?  That will tell me what we need to do for a
> >> further extension for voting.
> >>
> >> Thanks to all of you who worked on this problem and the rest of the
> >> move.
> >>
> >
> > AFAIK, some people had issues for an hour or two.  But having said that..
> > I'm begining to think more and more this is a bind bug because I still
> > can't resolve fedoraproject.org from my slicehost:
> >
> > dig @67.207.128.4 fedoraproject.org
> >
> > I'd think if this was a wide spread problem people would be screaming
> > about it.
> 
> For what it is worth I think the one day extension with the previous
> extension is plenty but adding another just to be safe isn't going to
> upset anyone I don't think. So if you think just to be cautious it
> would be good to extend the voting through the 17th I don't think
> anyone would object.

We'll just stick with what we announced and planned, to make things
easier.

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