Communications Office Report #4
February 6, 2004
Admiral Turtle Jerrar

Greetings members.

I've been knee-deep in various aspects of MinosNIC/server operations, EHNet and ELS this week. Here is a brief summary of these topics:

MinosNIC: PHP has been upgraded to 4.3.5RC2, bringing us out of the -dev category we were running at for about a week. Luckily, no major problems were experienced during this time. Other small changes were made to the server this week.

EHNet: As covered in the Internet Office report, EHNet.org has been up and down more than a roller coaster this week. Between the compromise of the cernun.net server, denial of service attack, the random failing of the domain's hosting on the same server after the repair, and subsequent moving of the site to the MinosNIC server, EHNet availability has been sporadic at best. The good news is that most of these changes have been completed, and EHNet is now happily running again.

Several EHNet sites are still in line to be restored (namely, my.ehnet.org). Please contact myself and HA Ari if you notice other sites that are missing, or appear broken.

ELS: I've been working heavily on the backend ELS code today to vastly improve reliability, security, and ease of use. More details on the exact changes will be made when I release the new version, expected to be sometime next week. (Note: ELS errors seen on www.ehnet.org are to be expected during the next couple of days as I test the system and purposefully attempt to break it)


Communications Office Links

http://www.ehcomm.net/ - Communications Office
http://www.ehnet.org/mb/ - Message Boards
http://www.ehcomm.net/request.php - COMM Request Forms
http://www.emperorshammer.org/irc.htm - IRC Code of Conduct

http://www.minos.net/ - MinosNIC
http://els.minos.net/ - ELS Management


Submitted,

COMM/AD Turtle Jerrar/CS-8/SSSD Sovereign (Paladin),
GOE/BSx2/PCx2/ISMx7/MoI/IS-2GR-1PR/LoC-CSx2-Rx3/CoE/CoLx2/CoB/LoA/OV-6E
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