forums.freebsd.org times out, will not load...

[jb_daefo]

... freebsd.org is fine. URLS to check the forum status, at least one of, also report it down. going on 18 hours...

[jb_daefo]

There's an open PR on it, forum-admin is on it.

[J65nko]

Hmm ....

dig forums.freebsd.org 

; <<>> dig 9.10.8-P1 <<>> forums.freebsd.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13119
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;forums.freebsd.org.            IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
forums.freebsd.org.     10      IN      A       204.109.59.195

;; Query time: 17 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 19 02:49:21 CET 2022
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63

A TTL of 10 seconds? Maybe they are moving to another IP address?

[jb_daefo]

They're back up now...

[grahamperrin]

Originally Posted by jb_daefo

There's an open PR on it, …

That was me (the reporter), https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/sh....cgi?id=261248

Originally Posted by jb_daefo

They're back up now...

Key points included https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/551866:

No power outages as far as I know. The host that runs the VM that runs the forums had an issue, that needed a nudge. Unfortunately we had some issues contacting the owner of said host. Stuff really needs to be migrated away from there so we can assign some more people with proper access but alas, that hasn't happened yet. The upside of the recent outage is that this will hopefully be expedited.

– and https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/551872

The forums should, ideally, be hosted on the rest of the FreeBSD infrastructure. It started off on someone's personal host and it's been running there ever since. Getting it onto the FreeBSD infrastructure needs some negotiating (we have a couple of requirements that would need to be met) and obviously some time and effort to actually get it migrated.