ATTENTION ALL MURKWORKS.NET USERS/TWOMOONSMUSH.ORG VISITORS

[annathepiper]

I'm still at Writer's Weekend, but I just now got the message from solarbird that our primary server, lodestone, got hacked last night. Murkworks.net is therefore completely hosed for at least four days, if not longer. Full details are available over on Dara's journal here.

The biggest impacts on this:

1) Dara says the user data impacted is that everybody's index.html files have been replaced by hacked versions. I can pull these off a backup but the last backup I made was in April (thanks to everything else going on in my life ;P ), so while I'll be able to get those files they won't be current. So those of you with web pages on the system will want to inspect the files once I recover them. ALSO: I WILL NOT be able to do this before Dara and I move. And it will be VERY LIKELY that it may well take longer, due to my impending surgery on the 3rd.

2) Twomoonsmush.org, all tribal sites hosted on our server (both on my personal account and on other accounts such as "sorrows" and "catelf") are also down until further notice. So are the TM-related mailing lists we host, such as tm-staff and lostholt-l. Our site admin blargh is already aware of the situation, but please be advised that this will probably impact these resources for the next few weeks minimum.

TWO MOONS PLAYERS and STAFF: If Traest has not already put out the word, please convey word to others on the game about the status of the server. Several TM players do in fact have personal accounts on our server, so these accounts WILL HAVE BEEN IMPACTED. They will not be accessible until further notice.

3) All our other mailing lists have also been impacted. This includes lexfa-l. Those of you on my Friends list who are in LexFa, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD to other members of LexFa. Y'all may want to be using the Yahoo! backup version of the list until further notice in order to keep in touch.

4) Murkworks MUSH is still up, as it lives on a different server, but you will want to access it via door.murkworks.net 4201 if you want to log on.

5) My primary email address, obviously, is screwed; so is my primary copy of my web page. My backup email address and my backup web page on drizzle.com are still up and running. Check my LJ Info page if you need that data.

To everyone with data on our system, a thousand apologies for this. :( Dara and I will try to get everything back up and running as quickly as we can--though we ask your patience as we try to juggle this along with moving AND impending surgery AND my being at this writer's conference AND trying to find out whether Adobe is going to call me in for a job. GUH.

Comments

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

***BLERG***

*HUGS*

i'm of no assistance, but DAMN that's enough shite karma for several lifetimes for you folks... DAMN!
my best to dara, and get hugs...

bb

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

No worries. I'm confident all will be well in due time.

You focus on what you need to focus on.

*hugs*

[blargh.livejournal.com]

I have made announcements on the MUSH.

I've also deleted your SSH keys into the blargh.com server, since I didn't know where they were stored.

Helped Dara a bit today with some stuff, hope you guys get going again soon.

[annathepiper]

Thanks, hon--we're going to be going nuts the next few weeks, I'm sure. And I'm sure I'm not going to be much help after I have my surgery, either. :P

[annathepiper]

*hugs back* Thanks. :|

[annathepiper]

GUH, I completely spazzed about the ssh keys on your server, yeah--glad you thought about that, yes.

Do you still have mirrors set up for the TM related mailing lists? If you haven't activated them already, can you, please?

Also, please make sure that Shendia and Kaer are both directly informed about the outage, since they are the keepers of the Sorrow's End and Catelf pages which both live on the system on their individual accounts? The other individual tribal accounts I had been hosting on the system have been long defunct.

[annathepiper]

And oh yes--if you haven't already, feel free to go ahead and slap up a temporary web page for the game on blargh. It'll be anybody's guess when we get back online. :|

[shaylith.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about all of this! *hugs all around* My thoughts are with ya'll! :(

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

i can't do squat on the geek end, since my sysadmin skills consist of making puppydog eyes at darthfrog, or bribing him with single malt scotch or lemon meringue pie :) but i can pack and clean. if you need another pair of hands, just say so. my health insurance says i can be in the US for up to 5 days at a time.

*hugs* hang in there.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

couldn't leave before tuesday afternoon, though. have commitments tomorrow and tuesday. i can't admin linux boxes, but i can probably help Mimi clean up her PC.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

and i just realised what weekend this is coming up. the 31st to the 2nd is a long weekend here, and i'm someone's ride to a pagan festival. but i'm all yours for wednesday and thursday if that's useful.

[annathepiper]

*after reading all three posts* Well, babe, if you want to drive all the way down here for the express purpose of helping us move stuff from this house to the new one, you're absolutely welcome to do so. :) Probably this won't really be needed till Thursday or later, though; we don't get the keys until Wednesday, and I don't know yet when on Wednesday that's going to happen.

That said, we will definitely need any willing hands to help us move stuff. Watch my and Dara's journal for updates on this--we'll be probably having a huge 'please come help us move' party and be springing for pizza and such for anybody who shows up.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

Probably this won't really be needed till Thursday or later, though; we don't get the keys until Wednesday ... we'll be probably having a huge 'please come help us move' party

will the moving party be on the weekend, or post-op? perhaps i would be more use after the 4th. i can pack, cook, and clean, leaving Dara freer for spouse-tending.

[ssha.livejournal.com]

I can also help with all the stuff Geri can, minus time for appointments and such that may be happening during that time.

Just lemme know.

[annathepiper]

We have no plan formed yet--we're still scrambling to get murkworks.net back online, and it's happening in bits and pieces. But as soon as we know what we're doing, we'll post on our LJ's. :) And we'll also just have to see how loopy I'm going to be after the surgery--I just don't honestly know, since I've never had surgery before! All I know is that my doctor has told me I'm not supposed to work for a week after, and I don't know yet if this is going to be because I'm just not to physically or mentally exert myself, or because I should expect to be loopy on pain meds. :)

[annathepiper]

I will, hon, and thank you. :) As soon as Dara and I have a plan, we will spread the word as to what we'll be needing!

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

I don't know yet if this is going to be because I'm just not to physically or mentally exert myself, or because I should expect to be loopy on pain meds. :)

a word of warning from someone who's had seven general anesthetics (though the one when i was 2.5 doesn't exactly count): being loopy on pain meds may be of secondary importance for the first 72 hours or so, for the following reason.

if your GI tract has *any* sort of tendency towards nausea and other assorted tantrums, ask your physician(s) for preventative dosing of the REALLY GOOD anti-nausea drugs. generals tend to do that to some groups of folk (please God/ess i never need another) and with stitches or some other form of repair to your neck you abso-fucking-lutely do NOT want to go there ...

[annathepiper]

Oooh yeah, that's a good point. I don't have a history of that, but it definitely seems like a good thing to ask about at the very least--I've never been under a general anesthetic, but I do remember distinctly that I was queasy on the morphine they had me on when I was in the ER with the broken arm.