Looks like www.climateprediction.net, and the associated php forum is down. Was there any announcement that the site was going to be worked on today?

> Looks like www.climateprediction.net, and the associated php forum is down.
> Was there any announcement that the site was going to be worked on today?
>
Hi Geophi,

I managed to connect initially but its just thrown me out - don't recall seeing anything anywhere

marj

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I wonder if this is the reason for the forum being down (taken from another php forum that was down yesterday). Of course that wouldn't necessarily explain why the main climateprediction.net site is down.

"Stormtrack has been offline for about 20 hours today (December 3). There was an urgent security issue in phpBB, one which allowed hackers to take down hundreds of sites over the past few days. This has been big news in the phpBB community. Unfortunately I was in east Texas most of the day and couldn't do anything to fix it, so I had to leave the board offline.

The board has reverted to its old look as we wanted to get a fresh, clean install of phpBB 2.0.11, but the mods and banners will come back shortly."

> Looks like www.climateprediction.net, and the associated php forum is down.
> Was there any announcement that the site was going to be worked on today?

Hi geophi and thanks for redirection to appropriate thread - still can't get into using BOINC forum...

I also undertaken some rearch... it seems that phpBB SQL exploit is active.
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=239819

Solution/remedy is there
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=240513
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=240636
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=244451

An SQL exploit can maybe overload CPU/System so there is no spare CPU cycles to provide webpages data at www.climateprediction.net hence causing whole www.climateprediction.net unaccesable.
That's perhaps why marj was able to load a bit of CPDN web but was 'thrown out' soon after.

EDIT: No announcement that the site was going to be worked on today as far as i can say. But CPDN has of version 2.0.10 today; i got the feeling that upgraded recently from 2.0.8 ?

AArggg, now i'm really confused where to post. Just posted re attaching to www.climate prediction.net in questions section..............

Hi Honza,
I had a power cut a couple of hours ago. When it came back on and I restarted BOINC it tried to attch to CPDN at www.climateprediction.net and said it couldn't. I'm still crunching as i'de just backed it up so copied that back over but I still can't access any of the 'old' pages just the BOINC ones.???
Marj

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Yeah, seems like 'old' or classic pages/forum is down.
I've just sent e-mail to Tolu about this problem.

Let's hope things get solved soon...

> When it came back on and I restarted
> BOINC it tried to attch to CPDN at www.climateprediction.net and said it
> couldn't. I'm still crunching as i'de just backed it up so copied that back
> over but I still can't access any of the 'old' pages just the BOINC ones.???

If people need to attach via boinc you can use "climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc" instead of the "climateprediction.net" URL in your schedulers. I'm sure Tolu will look at things when he gets back, but he may be away until Monday.

Sorry about this. I think there was an outage at Open University yesterday, and though most pages at open.ac.uk are back up, climateprediction.net still seems to be down. We'll try to get it back up today.

Dave Frame
climateprediction.net coordinator

Hi All,

I've alerted the webmanager at KMi about the on-going problem by phone and email, so I'm hoping he'll either fix the problem soon or at least explain why things are still down.

Sorry again and thanks for your patience...

Cheers,
Dave

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Hi all,

Just had a phone call from the KMi webmanager - the story is that one of the machines on the same KMi subnet as climateprediction.net was compromised early Satrurday morning, and that subnet has been down since. They'll be fixing the problem first thing Monday (UK time). Since this is the second time this has happened in a few weeks, we (KMi and cpdn) will investigate hosting the site on a different subnet.

Cheers,
Dave Frame
climateprediction.net coordinator

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Thanks for keeping us updated, Dave.

Cheers,
Honza

> Hi all,
>
> Just had a phone call from the KMi webmanager - the story is that one of the
> machines on the same KMi subnet as climateprediction.net was compromised early
> Satrurday morning, and that subnet has been down since. They'll be fixing the
> problem first thing Monday (UK time). Since this is the second time this has
> happened in a few weeks, we (KMi and cpdn) will investigate hosting the site
> on a different subnet.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Frame
> climateprediction.net coordinator
>

Hi all

Baptism and trial by fire for Tolu.

Carl, you're working double shifts.

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The Open U guys are frantically trying to get the server back on-line.

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> The Open U guys are frantically trying to get the server back on-line.
>
Thanks for letting us know Tolu

Marj

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Hi all,

The machine hosting climateprediction.net at the Open Uni was compromised about 5am on Saturday morning, bringing down the entire OU website. [Very serious for them as they need their students to login at all times.] They managed to isolate the attack to a particular DMZ within the university, and closed that down for the weekend. They've since traced it to the machine hosting climateprediction.net. They're working on it now, but we'll be moving the site to another machine. In the mean time we'll be putting up a place-holder page today with some fairly minimal information. The BOINC forums, upload servers, etc are still functioning as normal - only the website and the phpBB forums are down. These are (we believe) fully backed up, so we don't think we've lost any data. The OU are currently conducting a security audit of the relevant systems, and are trying to get everything up and running again - the attack knocked out quite a large part of KMi's network, so there's quite a bit for them to fix. We hope to have everything back to normal in a day or two. We'll continue to post updates as they become available.

Dave

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In a previous message in this thread it was stated "...The BOINC forums, upload servers, etc are still functioning as normal..."

However on all of the computers I'm running BOINC on I get the following type of messages whenever I try & do a manual update:

climateprediction.net - 2004-12-06 12:09:23 - Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 1 days, 19 hours, 15 minutes, and 49 seconds
climateprediction.net - 2004-12-06 12:23:32 - Master file parse failed
climateprediction.net - 2004-12-06 12:23:32 - Could not contact any schedulers for http://www.climateprediction.net/.
climateprediction.net - 2004-12-06 12:23:32 - Could not contact any schedulers for http://www.climateprediction.net/.
climateprediction.net - 2004-12-06 12:23:32 - Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 1 days, 13 hours, 58 minutes, and 21 seconds

So perhaps uploading isn't working after all?

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It seems that only some machines/regions of whatever the criterion is are affected.
See there for more: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=1390

> In a previous message in this thread it was stated "...The BOINC forums,
> upload servers, etc are still functioning as normal..."
>
> However on all of the computers I'm running BOINC on I get the following type
> of messages whenever I try & do a manual update:
>
> So perhaps uploading isn't working after all?

I seem to have received a master file fetch error during a trickle but no model data was lost and the trickle seems to have been receieved correctly. I'm waiting for the next one to see if the same error occurs.

Good luck getting the servers back up.

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Carl's link (in this thread) works perfectly to attach a new model.

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