Power Outage 09/23/09

Back to normal now.

I had to pull the plug prematurely on EXP4, since it has such a wimpy UPS. BOT House stayed up for about 45 minutes before it shut itself down.

Of course, we ended up with a new IP address, so all your favorites are fucked.

I've had a lot of good luck this year with the power situation (unlike last fall's 48 hour outage after the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through town). I did notice a crew with a backhoe a couple of blocks away when I came home from work, so I'm going to blame it on them. They have their path all marked out with those little plastic flags and they have a way to go until they're done. Hopefully they won't make the same mistake twice.

BOT House 2.6.31 Upgrade COMPLETE

BOT House has been upgraded to kernel 2.6.31 and once again I got it on the first shot. BAM! Nailed it. Plus the new iptables & ipset utils were installed.

BOT House had been up for 215 days, so I was absolutely positive RoadRunner would dish out a new IP but as luck would have it the old one stuck. This was a big surprise considering Linux decided it had to check all the disks on reboot (I hate that - should've gone with JFS instead of EXT3 on that box), delaying the reboot even longer.

Something happened during the switch-over from the old iptables to the new because our old buddy StinkFly snuck in. Once I reset the firewall rules he was back in Ban Land.

It plays well. Hope you enjoy it.

UT Map Switcher In Production

I got bored at work today and wrote the map switcher for Ban-O-Matic.

Now, after ten minutes of idle time (seems to be a lot of that lately), the servers will automatically switch to a random map.

Also, in the case of BOT House and EXP4, an update with the new map name will be sent to Twitter. These may or may not show up depending on whether or not I used my hourly tweet allotment.

FWIW, it looks like I may be upgrading the kernel on BOT House this weekend, since it went so well on EXP4. That means there will undoubtedly be an IP address change in the near future and your bookmarks will be fucked.

There are still a few tests I'd like to do first, but it looks inevitable.

I really hate changing IPs, but the upgrade is worth it.