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Somebody Yanked the Ethernet Cable

Two days of downtime in June 2021: first a mystery unplugged ethernet cable, then a scheduled power shutdown.

Event Create Together 23 Jun 2021 – 24 Jun 2021

On 23 June 2021 prop reported that the server was down 1. kira could not even SSH in 2, and the culprit turned out to be the oldest trick in the book: “somebody yanked the ethernet cable -__-” 3. Once the machine was reachable again, the Discord bot would not launch until he updated discord.py 4.

The next day brought a more official outage, a scheduled power shutdown in kira’s area that took the server down for most of the day 5. IRIS and prop played singleplayer in the meantime, with a stream in a voice channel 6. When kira announced “Server back online” 7, prop’s reaction summed up the wait: “have been waiting all day” 8.

It was an early taste of life on a home server, a theme that returned in The Server on Kira's Home Connection and the The Power Cut Saga.

  1. prop · 23 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates k1r4 is down
  2. k1R4 · 23 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates not able to ssh also
  3. k1R4 · 23 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates somebody yanked the ethernet cable
  4. k1R4 · 23 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates discord bot wonnt launch if discord.py not upto date
  5. prop · 24 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates aama da today shutdown aama
  6. IRIS · 24 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates we will do our single player thingy
  7. k1R4 · 24 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates Server back online
  8. prop · 24 Jun 2021 · #asmp-s1-ip-updates have been waiting all day