XMPP.NET SSL Cert installed

Now I have installed the new SSL / TLS certificate and it seems to be working. Ejabberd uses it for c2s and s2s, I also installed it for the web page, but I need a new one for www.jabber.no, that is why there is an error message. This will be fixed very soon.

Everything should be working now for iChat, please report!

Hope everything else works like it should. 🙂

SSL and iChat

Hello, we are now in South Africa and has gotten a lovely little boy whom is very well behaved 🙂 I have to work on internet connections not quite like home, but we can manage.

About the SSL cert that is expired. I have tried to get GeoTrust to support us by donating a new cert for some time now with no luck. Sadly they do not reply. Now I have applied for a new cert from xmpp.net and we are just waiting for the approval. As soon as we get this we will insert the new cert. What I was not aware is that iChat does not support expired SSL certs and for now this means iChat does not work on jabber.no. Should be remedied as soon as we get the xmpp.net cert.

Sorry for the problems this is causing.

Adoption and travel

We have for a while been waiting to adopt a child from South Africa, and now we finally got the telephone and we are going for a trip. Wednesday 14th of February we are leaving, and the return is scheduled for saturday 3rd of March.

While I am gone Carl-Christian Salvesen will be the main contact if any problems should arise. He knows the server well and knows how to fix most things. You can reach him on calle@ioslo.net, or on Jabber / XMPP at calle@jabber.no.

I will be available online sometimes but I will be on the other side of the world, so I am not 100% confident. We ordered wireless access, we will see 🙂

Database Error

I managed to kill my databases today, and it is all my own fault. Should not be a problem since I did have backups, but now none of my backups work, at least no other than this, but it is 6 months old…! I should have done a fire drill. Anyways, my jabber databases are intact, they have a better backup system, and I also have done fire drills on that system so they are more secure. This one did only affect the jabber page and my own personal homepage.
So now I need to set it up all again, and so I am back to the old drupal vs wordpress. Maybe I should do a poll as to what I should do now?

Anyways, give me a few days to recover and set myself up again. We will be fully back in business very soon, and again, this does not affect the jabber service, transports or any other things.

This is very irritating, I have too much to do these days, but .. 🙂

Finally a disk error!

Yes, I do mean it, finally! 🙂 This is because now I know what has caused the server hangs lately. Smartd reported an “Offline_Uncorrectable” sector and the RAID on IDE disks does not respond nicely to sector errors. Now the sector has been marked dead, and the raid is synced again, plus I know which disk has caused the problems.

I am looking forward to the move of server, cause the other server has SCSI disks and they are more stable. Still there is more to do before I can migrate but it is on my roadmap. At least I feel confident that one more problem has been solved!

Possible kernel problem again

I upgraded the kernel when we did the firewall change and it might be that we got a panic tonight because of this. The problem is that the screen was blank so I am uncertain just what happened. In any case I will give this kernel a second shot so we run it tonight aswell.

A warning, this might cause the server to panic again tonight, we will reboot it in the morning, you have been warned. 🙂

We really need to figure this one out!

Jabber.org and SSL support

It says on the news page of jabber.org that they are installing a CA cert SSL certificate for encrypted server to server communcation support. This is great news, jabber.no has SSL support for S2S ready and installed, so we should be able to provide encrypted connections to jabber.org as soon as they are ready.