netlib.re宕机后恢复服务

xylon

6th July 2026: service interruption.
(French version below / version française plus bas)
Hello everyone, the website has been interrupted for about a month. I'm deeply sorry about that and I wanted to clarify what happened.

Most people probably didn't notice since the secondary DNS server was still up and kicking, thus your domains were still being provided. In some sense, the service was still somewhat operational. However, the website was down.

So, what happened?
The server hosting netlib.re suffered a couple of power cuts. Disks are failing, harder than before. The server already was old and clunky, now it's almost ready for the landfill. I used this second-hand server with its original (already used) disks for 9 years now, I can't really say it wasn't expected.

The website was interrupted for about a month. Also, the mail server was on the same hardware, so I didn't see any of the (probably hundred) mails you sent me. Again, sorry about that.

About your data
I do have backups but for very good reasons (sarcasm) they were from a month prior the interruption. All in all, almost nothing was lost, there wasn't much changes in the database since registrations were closed a long time ago. However, your last zone modifications (after the 2nd of May) might not be here.

DNS servers provide the actual last modification you did on your zones (both DNS servers have the same data). The website however might not be up-to-date. In case you changed your zones after the 2nd of May, any modification will sync everything.

Why did this take a month?
I'm not monitoring the service and I use it sparingly. Took me a couple of days to notice when someone actually sent me an email on my personal mail address. After that, I had hope to get the server back and running when someone from my hosting staff was going to the datacenter, this took a few more days. Unfortunately this wasn't enough so the staff organized another round and a week later… the server was back! Well, for 5 whole hours I guess, before another power cut definitively crashed my system.

At this point, we were already 2 weeks in; I had no idea when or even if my server was going to be repaired so I decided to self-host it. I won't go in the details, but it took me a week to repurpose a laptop and start adapting the code for my operating system (OpenBSD). Another week later, the service is here!

What now?
As you might have guessed, your modifications after my last backup (the 2nd of May) are lost and even if the DNS servers are providing the up-to-date zone; so if you did change your zones after this date I encourage you to update your zones on the website to avoid future confusing errors.

Other than that, the service is pretty much back! I still have a few tests to perform, some tweaks here and there, but you should be able to use the service as before.

Please keep in mind that this project is a hobby and not a (paid) job. Thanks for your understanding, have a good day!

xylon

明白了，非常抱歉——我之前误解了您的意思。您并不是要翻译我之前的回复，而是希望我把这份**原始公告全文**（英文+法文）翻译成中文。

现在我把英文版（及法文版内容相同）完整地翻译成中文，如下。法文部分与英文内容基本一致，因此我只翻译英文原文，但会在末尾说明法文版本也已涵盖。

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**2026年7月6日：服务中断说明**

大家好，网站已经中断了大约一个月。对此我深感抱歉，并想澄清一下发生了什么。

大多数人可能根本没注意到，因为辅助DNS服务器仍然在正常工作，因此你们的域名仍然被正常解析。从某种意义上说，服务其实还是部分可用的。但是，网站确实是下线了。

**那么，到底发生了什么？**
托管 netlib.re 的服务器经历了几次电源故障。磁盘正在失效，比以往更严重。这台服务器本来就老旧笨重，现在几乎可以送去填埋了。这台二手服务器连同它自带的（也是二手的）硬盘，我已经用了9年，说实话，这并非意料之外。

网站中断了大约一个月。另外，邮件服务器也在同一台硬件上，所以我完全没有看到你们发给我的（可能有上百封）邮件。再次向大家道歉。

**关于您的数据**
我确实有备份，但出于某些“非常充分的理由”（讽刺），备份只到中断发生前一个月。总的来说，几乎没有丢失什么数据，因为注册功能早就关闭了，数据库变化不多。但是，你们在5月2日之后对DNS区域所做的最后一次修改可能不在了。

DNS服务器提供的是你们区域的最新实际修改记录（两台DNS服务器数据一致）。然而，网站上的数据可能不是最新的。如果您在5月2日之后修改过区域，那么任何新的修改操作都会将一切重新同步。

**为什么花了整整一个月？**
我并没有持续监控这项服务，自己也很少使用。直到有人给我的个人邮箱发了一封邮件，我才花了几天时间注意到问题。之后，我原本指望托管机房的工作人员去数据中心时帮我重启服务器，这又等了好几天。不幸的是，这还不够，工作人员又安排了另一轮操作，一周后……服务器终于恢复了！不过，大概只坚持了完整的5个小时吧，又一次电源故障彻底搞垮了我的系统。

到这个时候，我们已经过了两周；我完全不知道服务器何时甚至能否修好，所以我决定自己托管。具体细节我就不多说了，但我花了一周时间改装一台笔记本电脑，并开始将代码适配到我的操作系统（OpenBSD）上。又过了一周，服务终于回来了！

**现在怎么办？**
正如您可能已经猜到的，您在5月2日（我的最后一次备份日期）之后所做的修改已经丢失，尽管DNS服务器仍在提供最新的区域记录；所以，如果您在此日期之后更改过区域，我建议您在网站上更新您的区域，以避免将来出现令人困惑的错误。

除此之外，服务基本上已经恢复！还有一些测试要做，这里那里需要调整，但您应该可以像以前一样使用服务。

请记住，这个项目是我的业余爱好，而不是一份（有报酬的）工作。感谢您的理解，祝您有愉快的一天！

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**法文版本（内容相同）已略，但翻译已涵盖全部信息。**

如果您还需要我把法文部分也单独译出，或者有其他需要，请告诉我。再次为之前的误解致歉。😊