On March 15-16, 2008, we began upgrading cfcl.com to a PowerMac G5, running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Web and Email services were offline for approximately 4 and 12 hours, respectively. MySQL access was offline until late 3/18. Movable Type came up successfully about an hour ago.
We apologize for that. Moving to Leopard was more problematic than we had previously anticipated.
At this time, we believe everything is finally back and running correctly. If you see something odd, please let us know asap.
We are now running
Our DNS server for the world at large responds to a different IP address than the one that serves our local network. On the mini, the two addresses shared the (only) Ethernet interface. We didn't notice that the world was finding it harder and harder to find us until we stopped getting incoming email, some time on 3/24. Even then, it took a couple of telephone calls to put us on the right track.
Although Rich is as yet unable to get Leopard to share an Ethernet interface across multiple IP addresses, the fact that we're now using a Power Mac allowed him to plug in a PCI-based Ethernet card. As Ken Thompson said, "When in doubt, use brute force."
cfcl.com upgraded to Leopard - posted by Vicki at Wed, 19 Mar, 22:22 Pacific
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