lists.gnu.org status (Re: Tramp questions)

[Bob Proulx]

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Gary writes:
> > Might have something to do with problems on lists.gnu.org earlier
> > today. Some articles I posted via gmane failed to arrive, others only
> > with longish delays. HTTP requests to lists.gnu.org, to look at the
> > archives, failed (although it was responding to ICMP requests).
> 
> Maybe this is due to savannah's outage. See http://savannah.gnu.org

Actually lists.gnu.org was a different separate problem:

  http://identi.ca/notice/59494378
  codewiz wrote Tuesday, 30-Nov-10 06:43:16 UTC:
  > lists.gnu.org down for a double drive failure on one RAID array. Data
  > recovery in progress, will take some time. 

It is mostly back up and online except for the archive which I hope
will appear again soon.  FWIW I haven't seen any lost email that came
through any of the mailing lists because of this.  So it was probably
a new-mail gateway problem elsewhere.

[For those wanting to catch up on the Savannah problem:
  http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/savannah-and-www.gnu.org-downtime
]

Bob