Elftown will be down for about an hour, some time during Friday (2008-04-04) afternoon (Elftown time). It has to be moved due to yet another power shut-down. If you have added Elftown in your /etc/hosts file, then remove that entry as Elftown will get a new IP!
Also note that
http:// elftown.lysator.liu.se/ will no longer work! Update your links to point to
http://elftown.eu/ !
For normal people who haven't edited their /etc/hosts file or haven't written the old (wrong) link; Everything should work just fine, but it may take some time (30 minutes to 2-4 hours) before your DNS-server has updated Elftown's address to the new one.
Update 2008-04-04 19:15
[
Elftron] is now moved! It might take some time before everyone can access it again, but they should be able to access at least tomorrow.
Update 2008-04-04 0:06
A disk broke down on poor [
Elftron], but luckily it started to work again now. We can only hope it stays that way. I removed an old broken disk, and that seems to do the trick. It's as if the disk was hurt by a fall inside the computer, and got itself up and running again after some rest and spinning...
Then I had some very strange problems with the network, and they didn't go away until I removed some magic files.
Somehow there still seems to be some sort of problem.
Update 2008-04-04 01:06
I changed the IP-address and now the network seems to be working fine. Elftown will be down for a while when I move it to the computer hall though.
Update 2008-04-04 01:45
Elftown moved to the (new) computer hall. The network seems to be working only every other time I start it, so I'm very uncertain if the network will continue to be up.
Update 2008-04-05 16:04
Elftown's root-disk finally gave up and there was no use to try and use it, even if it works to copy stuff from. So I had to reinstall the system on a new disk. Now it's eventually back in the computer hall, but with less space for backups. By the way: There is still no power where [
Elftron] used to be.
Update 2008-04-07
The old address is made to work now, but please still change the links to point to elftown.eu just to be sure!
Notifications:
Make sure to put 'Competitions' on watch so that you don't miss these new contests:
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ECM Fairy/Fae - 1st May 2008
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Medieval Smileys Contest - 15th of May, 2008
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Elftown Creature Marathon Contest List
P.S. Yes, the previous piece of news -
<news:Mass Unbanning in a Week!> - wasn't real, just as the date suggests. The Guards don't mind quiet times, but participation and good comments are always appreciated :)
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