(Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu):
I'd also recommend upgrading our old kernel to a current 2.4.x to ensure that drivers are current; Jason may be recompiling anyway for serial console support, so two birds with one stone.
Jason, if you want to move IPs again, Brion and I finally got the read-only backup thing working on larousse, about 10 seconds before pliny came back to life (in fact, when I went to add the note "this is a read-only backup" to the main page, I ended up adding it to the live wiki :)
At any rate, if you do that again, I can get the read-only backup going quickly if you notify me (mail to wikidown is fine). Of course larousse by itself drags to a crawl with high traffic, even read-only, because it's not quite as hefty a server.
It's also high time we move the mailing lists to the other server so we can still communicate during downtime...
Since both pliny and larousse are going to be used for the live wiki, I see no point at all in moving the lists from one to the other. They need to be on a completely different server--even offsite, if possible.