Search Offline (possibly for a few days)

[mark]

Hi all,

Unfortunately, the hardware that powers our search system has been taken offline due to 'retirement.' This means that the search functions are disabled until we are able to resolve this, and it may take a couple of days.

I'll update more when I have a better timeline on restoring the service.

When search is back online, it may take some time to re-index all the content, but we won't "lose" anything from our search system since we don't use it as primary storage.

-Mark

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks for the heads up! I use search every week for something so am glad to know what might be happening.

[sarajayechan]

Gotcha. I don't use search religiously but thanks for the heads-up in case I suddenly wanted to. Good luck with the restoration!

[ride_4ever]

Thanks for keeping us posted on the "hardware happenings".

[badly_knitted]

Thanks for keeping us informed!

[the]

Retirement is such a milestone! I'm so happy for it. I wonder what new and fulfilling hobbies it will discover in its golden years.

On the real, best of luck resolving the issue! Thanks for all you do and for keeping us in the loop. <3

[jeweledeyes]

Thank you for making the joke I was thinking but was too embarrassed to post

[darth_eldritch]

Thanks for the info!

I wish all customer service was like this.

[kore]

What a pain for you guys! Thank you for letting us know, and being as transparent and open as always.

Thank you for the update

[akatsija]

Thank you.

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[paserbyp]

Retirement it is when replacement first put to service. 'Retirement' when it take a couple of days and means that hardware was dead and we're looking for emergency replacement ASAP. Correct me if I was wrong?

[sporky_rat]

Search needs rewriting or patching (I am not a dev, I just hang out with them) due to a giant security hole in Java, a lot of various web places are dealing with it right now.

[paserbyp]

Patching and retirement are different terms for not a dev person. Anyway. I don’t know how search impacted by this: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/log4shell-vulnerability-poses-critical-threat-to-applications-using-ubiquitous-java-logging-package-apache-log4j

[kareila]

With respect, I do not believe that DW is affected by the Java exploit at all, it's just a confluence of timing.

[paserbyp]

Agreed.

[overfix8]

Goodness. Well, good luck with fixing it, y'all

[winterbird]

Ah this explains it! Good luck, and thank you for keeping us apprised!

[pronker]

Best wishes on your behind the scenes work - we appreciate it.

[juniperberry]

Thank you, both for the hard work and the updates!

[kelkyag]

I'd just tried searching my journal and was wondering why it was taking so long. Thank you for the update!

[silveradept]

Good to know. Thank you for the notification.

[mellowtigger]

Fyi, the last time I tried to embed a Google ID to my blog (and it's been a while), that Dreamwidth process failed. I do like that option for searching for old posts directly at Google. It served me well ages ago at LJ.