[Distutils] PyPI is down

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Apr 5, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Fred Drake <fred at fdrake.net> wrote:
> Thanks following up on this!
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> The server appeared to be flapping from here, and that definitely lasted longer than 5 minutes (30 or more?).  The flapping could easily have fooled monitoring, of course.
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> The flapping is from OSUOSL playing with their firewall settings to try and mitigate risk from the Postgres vulnerability that went public yesterday. They are obviously aware of it and are trying to get the settings right until they get an upstream patch which will require some downtime, but then that should be it.

The upgrade was done yesterday afternoon, it just only resulted in about 30 seconds of downtime so I didn't even both announcing it :)

--Noah

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