FRED offline

[peet]

askFRED.net is offline due to unknown server problems. The machine is currently being investigated by the onsite techs; updates as events warrant.

Thank-you for your patience...

-p

[swordsen]

And that is what I came here tonight to find out.
Thanks for the update.

[Mr Epee]

askFRED.net is offline due to unknown server problems. The machine is currently being investigated by the onsite techs; updates as events warrant.

Thank-you for your patience...

-p

For those interested:

I will be circulating the obligatory recall petition.

Save Internet Fencing - Recall Peet
PO Box 65245
Podunken, NJ 10021

[the highlander]

For those interested:

I will be circulating the obligatory recall petition.

Save Internet Fencing - Recall Peet
PO Box 65245
Podunken, NJ 10021

Sorry to cut off the petition process , askFRED is back on...Hurrah for Peet!!!

What do we do without him?

[peet]

For those interested:

I will be circulating the obligatory recall petition.

Save Internet Fencing - Recall Peet
PO Box 65245
Podunken, NJ 10021

Oh, man, where is the love???
Down twice in four years, and poor FRED catches hell...

Update: the machine is back online for the time being, but continues to suffer unusally high loads. Not sure if it is just higher than normal traffic, or hardware issues. I continue to investigate.

thank-you for your patience...

-p

[KD5MDK]

When mission critical systems fail, those responsible must be replaced with llamas.

[snarsdale]

Lamas?

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Lamas?

are you kidding? Lorenzo Lamas, the actor responsible for such..... stellar movies as.... (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001444/) would make a horrible fearless leader of the people.


Llamas!

[fluidfencer]

I'd like to remind everyone that there is a little button on the bottom left side of the AskFred website that allows you to make a donation. The Birmingham Fencing Club and I just make our second contribution to the cause in thanks for Peet's efforts... and in recognition of the fact that running this is not expense-free.

[Frank Pratt]

For those interested:

I will be circulating the obligatory recall petition.

Save Internet Fencing - Recall Peet
PO Box 65245
Podunken, NJ 10021

...as if we could find a replacement at the drop of a hat!

[Inquartata]

Well, no doubt Sam Cheris would heave a long-suffering sigh but reluctantly agree to serve....

[snarsdale]

Actually, I was thinking of Dalai Lamas.......

[Inquartata]

I hadn't heard that Dolly Parton married Lorenzo Lamas!

[gtmac]

See, I would've gone with Fernando Lamas, myself. After all, it is better to fence good than to feel good.

[WJM]

Hey, I haven't been able to access askfred.net for weeks! I'm starting to get the feeling it's just me! Has askfred been down this entire time, or is there another issue (IP somehow banned?)

[Jason]

are you kidding? Lorenzo Lamas, the actor responsible for such..... stellar movies as.... (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001444/) would make a horrible fearless leader of the people.


Llamas!

Well, Lorenzo Lamas was in the fencing movie, The Swordsman.

[DJ Apostrophe]

Hey, I haven't been able to access askfred.net for weeks! I'm starting to get the feeling it's just me! Has askfred been down this entire time, or is there another issue (IP somehow banned?)

I haven't been having an issue... using right now in another firefox tab actually... e-mail peet, ( peet at askfred dot net) and i'm sure he'll be able to get you set.

-w

[peet]

Hey, I haven't been able to access askfred.net for weeks! I'm starting to get the feeling it's just me! Has askfred been down this entire time, or is there another issue (IP somehow banned?)

I do have a brute force attack detection system running on FRED's server that permanently bans any IP that appears to be the source of such an attack, so maybe your ISP has given you an IP that was formerly in use by a compromised machine (or of course, it's possible that your machine has been compromised.)

PM or email me your IP address and I'll look for it in the BFD logs ("BFD" stands for "Brute Force Detection", not that rude phrase you're thinking of, you naughty boy!)

If you're not sure what your IP is, the easiest way to find out is to visit:
http://whatismyip.com

cheers!
-p

[wrdbrn]

PEET and his ASKFRED site should be the assistant commander of the world, the Right hand of Christine Simmons... and the left ...well Craig of course...

[peet]

WUAAIYAGTGAASIOA? [Why use an acronym if you are going to go ahead and spell it out anyway]

Because, as you yourself have so sagaciously determined, it gives you an opportunity to make a geeky joke!

Wheeeee! Geek humor!

Whenever I'm worried I'm becoming too much of a geek, i give myself a geek checkup: tour this site and look at the shirts & stuff. As more and more of them make me say "Ha! that's hysterical!" and fewer make me say "umm, that's painfully geeky." or just plain "Huuh? WTF does that mean????", I fear more and more for my sanity.

-p