Dear IETF Community: The IETF Secretariat runs a dedicated server for the IETF in Fremont, California. The IETF Secretariat also runs a "hot standby" server for the IETF in Orlando, Florida. Fortunately, we've never had an outage significant enough to require a failover. But we want to make sure that everything would work if it is needed. To that end, we are going to test the failover procedures in April. This failover will be controlled, ensuring that no data is lost. In addition, some upgrades will be installed to the primary server once we are certain that the backup server is working well for everyone. This will result in some planned outage periods: Mon 11-Apr-2011 1600 EDT -- Primary Server goes down Mon 11-Apr-2011 1800 EDT -- Orlando Server comes up Tue 26-Apr-2011 1600 EDT -- Orlando Server goes down Tue 26-Apr-2011 1800 EDT -- Upgraded primary Server comes up In preparation, please ensure that your work that depends on the IETF server is done well before those outage periods. In addition, please ensure that you are addressing the IETF servers by their proper universal names like "www.ietf.org" and "datatracker.ietf.org". Please do not use server specific names like "core3.amsl.com". An extensive amount of pre-production testing was done, nevertheless we are being cautious. We are planning a two week period of time operating on the backup server. This will make us more confident that we can handle an actual emergency. Be assured that the Secretariat staff will be monitoring things continuously, and we will be working on problems as we encounter them. In the end, we will have an upgraded server and confidence in our failover plan. We ask for your patience, and thank you for your support, during this upcoming outage. Thanks for your assistance, Russ Housley IETF Chair _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
