jakem
We have just made a change to a DNS record for getpersonas.com affecting its CDN usage, and thought we’d share some of our findings as to it’s worldwide traffic patterns. Prior to now, getpersonas-cdn.mozilla.net pointed to a CDN aggregator service … Continue reading
jabba
This weekend, I rolled out a new LDAP infrastructure. Here are the details: The why: At Mozilla we depend heavily on our OpenLDAP-based[1] authentication system. As we’ve grown quite a bit over the past year or so, it has become … Continue reading
jakem
About 3 hours ago we updated the Mozilla Etherpad installation to a more current version. This has been in the works for almost a full year, and has finally come to fruition. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ Here’s a short list of the cool … Continue reading
cshields
During a recent Mozilla all-hands event Laura Thomson held a short presentation, titled “Working with IT”. Laura was the right person to give it and the feedback that we have gathered is that we need to help people understand how … Continue reading
jakem
A lot has been going on lately in IT, and we haven’t had a chance to make a post about it. I thought it was about time to get out an update about the team and what we’ve been working … Continue reading
cshields
Recently we saw instability in one of our admin nodes. The hardware is a bit old so it is easy to throw that out as a cause. This is an HP DL360, 4th Generation (current is g7 with g8 right … Continue reading
cshields
Here at Mozilla, we have grown to thousands of servers in a short period of time (and even more individual instances when you count virtual machines). Like most other organizations, we have to rely on tools that help the sysadmins … Continue reading
ravi
Network Operations will be conducting the following maintenance windows: Tuesday July 12 2011 1800 PST (0100 UTC) [Tree Closure] Duration: 3h All Firefox, Fennec & TryServer trees will be closed during this window. The VPN concentrator in SJC1 will be … Continue reading
noahm
The Internet changed yesterday. Did you notice? If not, we did it right. Mozilla was one of hundreds of participants in World IPv6 Day, both “the largest experiment in Internet history” and “the nerdiest holiday ever“. Mozilla added IPv6 connectivity … Continue reading
amilewski
We will have a scheduled maintenance window Tuesday morning, May 31 from 6am to 10am PDT (1300-1700 UTC) All Firefox, Fennec & TryServer trees will be closed during this window. 6:00am PDT (1300 UTC) Talos/Pageloader update. RelEng will be landing … Continue reading