The DNS recursor servers which are used from inside Cloud VPS and
Toolforge to resolve both internal and external hostnames to IP
address were not functional from approximately 2019-09-09T00:51 UTC to
2019-09-09T01:35 UTC. During this time, most (if not all) DNS lookups
would have returned a "SERVFAIL" response. The issue appears to be
resolved now.
We will share more information about what happened and how the problem
was corrected when we are sure that doing so will not cause additional
issues.
Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud VPS admin team
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Hello all,
I am trying to download a number of Russian Wikipedia articles in either
Firefox or Chrome. These articles have embedded URLs in Cyrillic. The texts
of the actual articles in Cyrillic save correctly in text files, but the
Cyrillic URLs are saved as gibberish. Does anyone have a solution?
Thank you,
Tom
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Thomas Stieve
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Geography and Development
University of Arizona
Hello all,
I am trying to download a number of Russian Wikipedia articles in either
Firefox or Chrome. These articles have embedded URLs in Cyrillic. The texts
of the actual articles in Cyrillic save correctly in text files, but the
Cyrillic URLs are saved as gibberish. Does anyone have a solution? It
doesn't have to be those two browsers I guess.
Thank you,
Tom
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Thomas Stieve
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Geography and Development
University of Arizona
You probably can’t. URLs HAVE to be URL encoded if you expect them to work right. That’s why they come out like that. The browser just prettifies it and/or handles the unencoded form. Modern browsers handle these automatically but other processes may not.
Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
English Wikipedia Administrator
Global User Renamer
> On Sep 3, 2019, at 20:25, Thomas Stieve <tomthirteen(a)email.arizona.edu> wrote:
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(Corrected the date in the subject line from the previous notification.)
Next Tuesday on September 3rd, between 13:00 and 14:00 UTC we'll be
performing backend database maintenance on the OpenStack VPS control plane.
During this maintenance window the Horizon web dashboard will be
unavailable and all VPS requests to create, modify or delete VPS resources
like virtual machines and DNS entries will be blocked.
Existing VPS virtual machines will remain running and Toolforge users will
not be affected by this maintenance.
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