Where did devio.us go? reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- faded_filth · 2018-05-19 12:27 They were a great free openbsd shell provider - their website and everything is gone. Anyone know what happened? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kusuriya · 2018-05-19 13:11 There are some technical issues going on that the admins are working through \(as they have time\). If you pop in on them on IRC freenode:#devious you can get updates or ask questions, but please don't DM the admins they are super busy trying to manage wolfman and their lives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- faded_filth · 2018-05-19 13:25 Lmao. OpenBSD admins don't have "lives". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kusuriya · 2018-05-19 13:26 Hey those ports ain't gonna create themselves :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brycied00d · 2018-05-19 17:58 We're still [mostly] online. We're working out some network issues with the ISP -- connections randomly getting killed, which is not only inconvenient but causes things like IRC clients to constantly reconnect, leave SSH sessions hung, and so on. Consequently, we've disabled SSH access while we get this sorted out. Email and gopher are both working at least :) (we know about people's priorities, after all!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Magnus919 · 2018-05-28 18:05 9 days later, still down. Is devio.us dead? Kaput? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brycied00d · 2018-05-28 19:55 Still not dead. We're just busy leading vibrant and productive fulfilling personal lives. And nobody wants to deal with Apache. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dd_fff · 2018-05-30 12:51 Since you're down, maybe you could upgrade that ancient OpenBSD 5.8 to 5.9, and then to, 6.0, to 6.1, to... you know what I mean ;\) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brycied00d · 2018-05-30 13:37 Maybe you should have checked the gopher banner before suggesting such a rediculous thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sunnzy · 2018-08-05 02:03 I don't seem to be able to connect to #devious on freenode, is that down too? (Or is it just me?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brycied00d · 2018-08-05 18:16 No that's unrelated. Due to a recent wave of spambots flooding Freenode channels like ours, we set the [channel mode](https://freenode.net/kb/answer/channelmodes) +S. This means that only TLS-wrapped IRC connections can /join the channel. If your IRC client doesn't support TLS/SSL, then clearly you're still in 1998 and I'd really encourage you to buy a few key stocks. For dealing with the spambots, there were 3 stopgap measures a channel could take: * +r Require all users to have a registered (with NickServ) nickname before they could join. We felt this blocked too many potential users such as those looking to quickly drop-in and ask a question. * +i invite-only requires every user be explicity invited before they can join. This obviously wouldn't work for us. * +S As I explained above, this simply requires that IRC clients use SSL/TLS when connecting. We felt this would have minimal impact on those joining the channel as it is 2018 and who isn't using TLS these days, either explicitly or automatically, anyways? The one caveat to this, as Freenode documents, is any user connecting using their webchat client. This was seen as a necessary and minor inconvenience to counter the spambots. (Besides, we've blocked webchat users many times before for other spam-related reasons.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sunnzy · 2018-08-06 00:36 >No that's unrelated. Due to a recent wave of spambots flooding Freenode channels like ours, we set the channel mode +S. This means that only TLS-wrapped IRC connections can /join the channel. If your IRC client doesn't support TLS/SSL, then clearly you're still in 1998 and I'd really encourage you to buy a few key stocks. Huh, never looked at the TLS settings, I am in the channel now! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sunnzy · 2018-08-06 00:37 So is Apache the only issue? Is it possible to access SSH on an alternative port? Or no SSH at all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- brycied00d · 2018-08-06 01:56 Yes it's just Apache at this point. No, no SSH until we're ready to resume normal operation. Mail sending and receiving, FTP, and Gopher are what's available for now.