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| --Tech & Moderator Notes |
| About Yesterday's outage |
| 2024-07-17 |
To call it what is was, the SSL (Secured Socket layer (Port 443)) certificate had expired. I went through the process of updating it through the Electronic Freedom Foundation's certbot program which provides free ssl for websites. Fortunately, Fred already had the executable installed, so the outage was only for about 90 mins or so. And technically, the web server wasn't out, most of ya'll's browsers refused to connect to a non-ssl website. The outage from 10 days or so ago, wasn't an outage: Fred lost his comms, but it was restored. -- The backend staff |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 nice literary reference, Bad |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-07-17 14:37 |
| #9 #6 Um, Bad.... you might want to come up with a different name for your gang... "Backend Boys" could lead to some misunderstandings... I do "Crazy Ivans" from time to time, so no misunderstandings. |
| Posted by: badanov 2024-07-17 11:44 |
| #8 "Backend Boys" could lead to some misunderstandings.... Not to be confused with the Backstreet Boys, right? OK, maybe not the best example... |
| Posted by: Raj 2024-07-17 10:01 |
| #7 Smells like a conspiracy to me! I thought your roof was too slanted and couldn't fix the antenna. Hardy! Har! Har! |
| Posted by: `AlmostAmonymous5839 2024-07-17 09:54 |
| #6 We have multimillion dollar vendors that forget to update their certs. Really, really frustrating when we approve software to run based on that. Brings everything to a halt. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-07-17 09:48 |
| #5 Um, Bad.... you might want to come up with a different name for your gang... "Backend Boys" could lead to some misunderstandings.... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-07-17 09:23 |
| #4 I Think this whole story is BOLOGNA ONLY TO ENTREAT THE UNCRITICAL FROM THE REAL REASON OF THIS FAILURE = FRANKLY FRED = A MOST MAGNANIMOUS PERSON - NEEDS MORE DONATIONS TO KEEP RANTBURG ROLLING - I would say, in the last 23 years of seeing the work of this man = please consider & DO A DONATION TO HIS PLATFORM - I will do $ 100.00 PROMISED, BY ME, IF YOU THE READER, DO WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD - AS A DONATION TO THE PLATFORM -ok -- THANKS Fred FOR BEING HERE = 🆗🫂🙂👍🏻 |
| Posted by: Angolurt Jones2177 2024-07-17 05:32 |
| #3 An SSL certificate (also known as a TLS or SSL/TLS certificate) is a digital document that binds the identity of a website to a cryptographic key pair consisting of a public key and a private key. The public key, included in the certificate, allows a web browser to initiate an encrypted communication session with a web server via the TLS and HTTPS protocols. The private key is kept secure on the server, and is used to digitally sign web pages and other documents (such as images and JavaScript files). An SSL certificate also includes identifying information about a website, including its domain name and, optionally, identifying information about the site’s owner. If the web server’s SSL certificate is signed by a publicly trusted certificate authority (CA), like SSL.com, digitally signed content from the server will be trusted by end users’ web browsers and operating systems as authentic. An SSL certificate is a type of X.509 certificate. Digicert.com |
| Posted by: Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857 2024-07-17 04:48 |
| #2 Indeed these are challenging times. Thank you for your efforts. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-07-17 03:28 |
| #1 Thank you for the update. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2024-07-17 03:27 |