> > Hi, > > I'm writing to inform, that the current Windows infrastructure hosting > sponsor doesn't plan to support the project anymore. Furthermore, a > notification was given, that the servers will be taken down within a couple > of next weeks. Alex Schoenmaker found another sponsor, so all the HW will > have to be moved to a new place. As a consequence, some shortages are to > expect. The particular date for the move is 3pm-4pm CET on Friday 20th > January. The downtime might concern windows.php.net downloads, snapshot > build uploads, as well as the PECL build and upload service. Especially as > the boxes have to be physically disconnected, a downtime of at least one > hour is possible. Please plan your possible work with accordance to this > info. > > This action requires some one of the devops to set the new A record and to > reload the DNS server configuration. I'm going to mail the new IP address > for the A record to systems@xxxxxxx close to the moment things are about > to > move. A temporary redirect is planned for the transition time, so then at > least the basic service should be back after the boxes are back online. > However, this redirect will likely to be only active only until the end of > January. Could please someone from the systems team give a confirmation, > the > record could be changed close to the move action? > > Thanks > > Anatol > Hi Anatol, if such a change is planned, the TTL for the DNS record should probably be adjusted to have a shorter caching of the old records. Regards, Niklas
