About dotsrc - dotsrc

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"> <title>About dotsrc - dotsrc</title> <meta name="description" content="Dotsrc.org (formerly SunSITE.dk) is a not-for-profit organization providing a variety of services to the open source community. The primary services offered by us are the mirroring of popular open source software, irc and usenet access. Dotsrc.org is a completely non-commercial project, powered by sponsored hardware, and driven by a group of volunteers. We can be contacted via mail to staff@dotsrc.org (usually the preferred way) and via IRCNet, channel #dotsrc. Our main sponsors are:"> <meta name="author" content="dotsrc staff"/><script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "WebSite", "name": "dotsrc", "url": "https:\/\/dotsrc.org" } </script><script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "", "url": "https:\/\/dotsrc.org" } </script> <meta property="og:title" content="About dotsrc" /> <meta property="og:description" content="Dotsrc.org (formerly SunSITE.dk) is a not-for-profit organization providing a variety of services to the open source community. The primary services offered by us are the mirroring of popular open source software, irc and usenet access. Dotsrc.org is a completely non-commercial project, powered by sponsored hardware, and driven by a group of volunteers. We can be contacted via mail to staff@dotsrc.org (usually the preferred way) and via IRCNet, channel #dotsrc. Our main sponsors are:"> <meta property="og:url" content="https://dotsrc.org/" /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="dotsrc" /> <meta name="twitter:title" content="About dotsrc" /> <meta name="twitter:description" content="Dotsrc.org (formerly SunSITE.dk) is a not-for-profit organization providing a variety of services to the open source community. The primary services offered by us are the mirroring of popular open …"> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <link href='https://dotsrc.org/img/favicon.png' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/> <meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.74.3" /> <link rel="alternate" href="https://dotsrc.org/index.xml" type="application/rss+xml" title="dotsrc"><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/katex.min.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/fontawesome/css/all.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/bootstrap.min.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/main.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/fonts.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/highlight.min.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/codeblock.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/photoswipe.min.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://dotsrc.org/css/photoswipe.default-skin.min.css" /> </head> <body> <nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top navbar-custom"> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="navbar-header"> <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#main-navbar"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <a class="navbar-brand" href="https://dotsrc.org">dotsrc</a> </div> <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="main-navbar"> <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"> <li> <a title="News" href="/news/">News</a> </li> <li class="navlinks-container"> <a class="navlinks-parent">About</a> <div class="navlinks-children"> <a href="/aboutus/">Organization</a> <a href="/aboutus/staff/">Staff</a> <a href="/aboutus/equipment/">Equipment</a> <a href="/aboutus/staff/halloffame/">Hall of Fame</a> </div> </li> <li class="navlinks-container"> <a class="navlinks-parent">Projects</a> <div class="navlinks-children"> <a href="/mirrors">Mirrors</a> <a href="/usenet">Usenet</a> <a href="/irc">IRC</a> <a href="/tor">Tor</a> <a href="/other">Other</a> </div> </li> <li> <a title="Sponsors" href="/sponsors">Sponsors</a> </li> <li> <a title="Statistics" href="/statistics">Statistics</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <div class="pswp" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="pswp__bg"></div> <div class="pswp__scroll-wrap"> <div class="pswp__container"> <div class="pswp__item"></div> <div class="pswp__item"></div> <div class="pswp__item"></div> </div> <div class="pswp__ui pswp__ui--hidden"> <div class="pswp__top-bar"> <div class="pswp__counter"></div> <button class="pswp__button pswp__button--close" title="Close (Esc)"></button> <button class="pswp__button pswp__button--share" title="Share"></button> <button class="pswp__button pswp__button--fs" title="Toggle fullscreen"></button> <button class="pswp__button pswp__button--zoom" title="Zoom in/out"></button> <div class="pswp__preloader"> <div class="pswp__preloader__icn"> <div class="pswp__preloader__cut"> <div class="pswp__preloader__donut"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pswp__share-modal pswp__share-modal--hidden pswp__single-tap"> <div class="pswp__share-tooltip"></div> </div> <button class="pswp__button pswp__button--arrow--left" title="Previous (arrow left)"> </button> <button class="pswp__button pswp__button--arrow--right" title="Next (arrow right)"> </button> <div class="pswp__caption"> <div class="pswp__caption__center"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="header-big-imgs" data-num-img=2 data-img-src-1="img/logo.svg" data-img-desc-1="dotsrc logo, artist unknown" data-img-src-2="img/kvaser96gb_20200218.jpg" data-img-desc-2="Kvaser, our mirror server, before a RAM upgrade" ></div> <header class="header-section has-img"> <div class="intro-header big-img"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1"> <div class="page-heading"> <h1>dotsrc.org</h1> <hr class="small"> <span class="page-subheading">Free/Libre and Open Source Hosting</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <span class="img-desc" style="display: inline;"></span> </div> <div class="intro-header no-img"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1"> <div class="page-heading"> <h1>dotsrc.org</h1> <span class="page-subheading">Free/Libre and Open Source Hosting</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div role="main" class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1"> <div class="well"> <p>Dotsrc.org (formerly SunSITE.dk) is a not-for-profit organization providing a variety of services to the open source community. The primary services offered by us are the mirroring of popular open source software, irc and usenet access.</p> <p>Dotsrc.org is a completely non-commercial project, powered by sponsored hardware, and driven by a group of volunteers.</p> <p>We can be contacted via mail to <a href="mailto:staff@dotsrc.org">staff@dotsrc.org</a> (usually the preferred way) and via IRCNet, channel #dotsrc.</p> <p>Our main sponsors are:</p> <p><div class="splitbox"><div class="left"> <a href="sponsors/#danish-e-infrastructure-cooperation"> <img src="./img/sponsors/deic.svg" height="50" alt="Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation logo"/> </a> </div><div class="right"> <a href="sponsors/#dansk-unix-user-group"> <img src="./img/sponsors/dkuug.svg" height="40" alt="Dansk Unix User Group logo"/> </a> </div><div style="clear:both"></div></div> </p> <a href="sponsors/#aalborg-university"> <img src="./img/sponsors/aau.svg" height="113" alt="Aalborg University logo"/> </a> <div class="splitbox"><div class="left">  <p></div><div class="right"> <a href="sponsors/#prosa"> <img src="./img/sponsors/prosa.png" height="40" alt="PROSA logo"/> </a></p> </div><div style="clear:both"></div></div> </div> <div class="posts-list"> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2023-11-21-disk-failure/"> <h2 class="post-title">Service Disruption</h2> <h3 class="post-subtitle"> Disk failure </h3> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2023-11-21  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> <p>We are experiencing a disk failure. Which are causing NGINX to return occasional 500 Internal Server Error codes.</p> <p>We are aware of the issue and are working to procure a replacement harddrive.</p> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/disk/">disk</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2023-08-22-downtime/"> <h2 class="post-title">Service Downtime</h2> <h3 class="post-subtitle"> Equipment relocation </h3> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2023-08-22  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> The reason for the downtime is physical relocation of our equipment at the location of our hosting provider, Aalborg University Denmark. Our expectation is our infrastructure will be online again this evening. We do not yet have en exact estimate when the relocation will be completed. 2023-08-22 23:37 +02:00 update: We could not confirm uplink connectivity on our internet facing ports. There will be a delay until tomorrow (23 Aug 2023) before being possible to bring our servers online. <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2023-08-22-downtime/" class="post-read-more">[Read More]</a> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/downtime/">downtime</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-07-27-outage/"> <h2 class="post-title">Service Outage</h2> <h3 class="post-subtitle"> ETA: Fixed </h3> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2022-07-27  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> <p>We are currently experiencing an unexpected outage across all mirrors, and are currently investigating.</p> <p><strong>Update 2022-07-27T12:30:00+02:00</strong>: We have identified and fixed the cause of the outage, service is now fully restored. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.</p> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/downtime/">downtime</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-04-13_power_outage/"> <h2 class="post-title">Power Outage</h2> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2022-04-13  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> <p>We are currently experiencing a power outage in Aalborg, and are therefore down. We are sorry for the inconvenience this causes and hope that power will be back soon.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: The outage has been resolved.</p> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/downtime/">downtime</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-02-16_onion_mirrors/"> <h2 class="post-title">Mirrors as Onion Service</h2> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2022-02-16  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> <p>We now provide our mirrors as an <a href="http://dotsrccccbidkzg7oc7oj4ugxrlfbt64qebyunxbrgqhxiwj3nl6vcad.onion/">onion service</a>!</p> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/tor/">tor</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/mirrors/">mirrors</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2022-02-09_ipv4_issues/"> <h2 class="post-title">Connectivity Issues</h2> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2022-02-09  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> <p>We are currently experiencing issues with our internet connection, which may cause connection failures. From our testing this is only limited to IPv4.</p> <p>We will update this post when we know more.</p> <p><strong>Update 2022-02-10T21:13:55+02:00</strong>: It should now be possible to connect again via IPv4. The issues was a configuration error at our ISP.</p> <p>We would like thank DeiC for helping us resolve the issue this quickly.</p> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/downtime/">downtime</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-10-17_tor_exits/"> <h2 class="post-title">Tor exits online!</h2> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2021-10-17  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> <p>Dotsrc is now hosting Tor exit nodes!</p> <p>Thanks to DeiC for being LIR and upstream, and to Henrik Kramselund for letting us use some of his IPv4 addresses.</p> <p>More information about the relays can be found <a href="/tor/">here</a>.</p> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/tor/">tor</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-07-06_searching_for_ipv4_address_space/"> <h2 class="post-title">Dotsrc is looking for IPv4 address space</h2> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2021-07-06  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> Dotsrc have been running fast Tor relay nodes for the last couple of years. Last year we began testing if we could operate Exit nodes as well, and did so for about two months. The vast majority of exit traffic is of course benign, but there’s also some malicious traffic which our ISP wasn’t too happy about. Since then we have had quite a few meetings and long email threads looking into possible solutions. <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/2021-07-06_searching_for_ipv4_address_space/" class="post-read-more">[Read More]</a> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/tor/">tor</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/sponsor/">sponsor</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/successfull-move/"> <h2 class="post-title">dotsrc have successfully moved to the new location</h2> <h3 class="post-subtitle"> mirrors.dotsrc.org should be back up and running </h3> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2021-06-03  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> We have successfully moved to new location and mirrors.dotsrc.org should be up and running. Please write us on staff@dotsrc.org if you do not think this is the case and we will take a look :) Note that one of our virtualization servers still is down at the time of writing, see this post. Thanks to Aalborg University for supplying us with one more server, assistance, and still accomodating us. Below are some pictures of the move, we will spare you the details. <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/successfull-move/" class="post-read-more">[Read More]</a> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/downtime/">downtime</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/tor/">tor</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/website/">website</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/all/">all</a>  </div> </article> <article class="post-preview"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/moving/"> <h2 class="post-title">dotsrc are moving to a new location</h2> </a> <p class="post-meta"> <span class="post-meta"> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Posted on 2021-06-01  | <i class="fas fa-user"></i> dotsrc staff </span> </p> <div class="post-entry"> <p>The time has come for dotsrc to move our servers from our current server room at Aalborg University to a new one. The old locations had been decommissioned and were no longer maintained. Without adequate cooling, the servers have begun to behave rather strangely. Thus the relocation has been expedited.</p> <p>We hope that all services are up and running again during Thursday afternoon.</p> </div> <div class="blog-tags"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/downtime/">downtime</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/tor/">tor</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/website/">website</a>  <a href="https://dotsrc.org/tags/all/">all</a>  </div> </article> </div> <ul class="pager main-pager"> <li class="next"> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/page/2/">Older Posts →</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="page-meta"> </div> <footer> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1"> <ul class="list-inline text-center footer-links"> <li> <a href="mailto:staff@dotsrc.org" title="Email me"> <span class="fa-stack fa-lg"> <i class="fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i> <i class="fas fa-envelope fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://gitlab.com/dotsrc" title="GitLab"> <span class="fa-stack fa-lg"> <i class="fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i> <i class="fab fa-gitlab fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://dotsrc.org/news/index.xml" title="RSS"> <span class="fa-stack fa-lg"> <i class="fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i> <i class="fas fa-rss fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> </a> </li> </ul> <p class="credits copyright text-muted"> dotsrc staff  • © 2023  •  <a href="https://dotsrc.org">dotsrc</a> </p> <p class="credits theme-by text-muted"> <a href="https://gohugo.io">Hugo v0.74.3</a> powered  •  Theme <a href="https://github.com/halogenica/beautifulhugo">Beautiful Hugo</a> (<a href="https://gitlab.com/dotSRC/web/beautifulhugo">fork</a>) adapted from <a href="https://deanattali.com/beautiful-jekyll/">Beautiful Jekyll</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </footer><script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/katex.min.js"></script> <script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/auto-render.min.js"></script> <script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/main.js"></script> <script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/highlight.min.js"></script> <script> hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad(); </script> <script> $(document).ready(function() {$("pre.chroma").css("padding","0");}); </script><script> renderMathInElement(document.body); </script><script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/photoswipe.min.js"></script> <script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/photoswipe-ui-default.min.js"></script><script src="https://dotsrc.org/js/load-photoswipe.js"></script> </body> </html>

CINXE.COM

About dotsrc - dotsrc