Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:48:30 +0000 From: Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: d0a232d442 - main - Status/2026Q2/clusteradm.adoc: Add report Message-ID: <6a53ef8e.3064b.37f3440f@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by philip: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=d0a232d4421e08320f127f5b910b247259c1532c commit d0a232d4421e08320f127f5b910b247259c1532c Author: Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2026-07-12 19:45:08 +0000 Commit: Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-07-12 19:45:08 +0000 Status/2026Q2/clusteradm.adoc: Add report Reviewed by: jrm, lsalvadore --- .../status/report-2026-04-2026-06/clusteradm.adoc | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 94 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/clusteradm.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/clusteradm.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b4fe38bf9f --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/clusteradm.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +=== Cluster Administration Team + +Links: + +link:https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm[Cluster Administration Team members] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm[] + +Contact: Cluster Administration Team <clusteradm@FreeBSD.org> + +Contact: Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> + +FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team members are responsible for managing the machines the Project relies on to synchronize its distributed work and communications. + +In this quarter, the team has worked on the following: + +* Regular support for FreeBSD.org user accounts. +* Regular disk and parts support (and replacement) for all physical hosts and mirrors. +* Cluster software refresh. +* Coordinate community mirrors. +* Additional support to the wiki-admin@ team. +* Frequent interventions to thwart denial of service by bots. + +==== Cluster refresh + +Work continues to refresh the software running on FreeBSD.org cluster machines. +We have started putting production workloads on stable/15. +As part of this work some workloads are being moved around to different machines. +This work is ongoing at the end of the quarter. + +The clusteradm team refreshes the production package builders (circa 35 physical machines) on a roughly six- to eight-week cadence. +These machines run FreeBSD current snapshots. + +Other machines are upgraded on an as-needed basis, keeping up with security fixes depending on how exposed they are. + +At the time of this writing there are 142 physical machines in the cluster. +We have 42 machines on current, 21 on stable/15 and 73 on stable/14. + +Most of the remaining stable/13 installations will be upgraded to stable/15. + +[.screen] +---- + 12.x: Regular 0, Jails 7 + 13.x: Regular 6, Jails 31 + 14.x: Regular 73, Jails 254 + 15.x: Regular 21, Jails 4 + 16.x: Regular 42, Jails 6 +Total: Regular 142, Jails 302 +Total installations: 444 +Running -RELEASE|{-p*}: 0 +Total geographic sites: 13 +---- + +==== FreeBSD official mirrors + +Current locations are Australia, Brazil, Japan (two full mirror sites), Malaysia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan and United States of America -- California, Chicago, New Jersey, and Washington. + +Our mirror site in Taiwan is experiencing an extended outage. + +One of our mirror sites in Japan will get a complete hardware refresh in 2026Q3. + +The hardware and network connection have been generously provided by: + +* Cloud and SDN Laboratory at link:https://www.bbtower.co.jp/en/corporate/[BroadBand Tower, Inc] +* link:https://www.cs.nycu.edu.tw/[Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University] +* link:https://internet.asn.au/[Internet Association of Australia] +* link:https://www.isc.org/[Internet Systems Consortium] +* link:https://www.inx.net.za/[INX-ZA] +* link:https://www.kddi-webcommunications.co.jp/english/[KDDI Web Communications Inc] +* link:https://www.mohe.gov.my/en/services/research/myren[Malaysian Research & Education Network] +* link:https://www.metapeer.com/[MetaPeer] +* link:https://www.nyi.net/[New York Internet] +* link:https://nic.br/[NIC.br] +* link:https://sonic.net[Sonic] +* link:https://www.teleservice.net/[Teleservice Skåne AB] +* link:https://your.org/[Your.Org] + +New official mirrors are always welcome. +We have noted the benefits of hosting single mirrors at Internet Exchange Points globally, as evidenced by our existing mirrors in Australia, Brazil, and South Africa. +If you are affiliated with or know of any organizations willing to sponsor a single mirror server, please contact us. +We are particularly interested in locations in Europe. + +See link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout[generic mirrored layout] for full mirror site specs and link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror[tiny-mirror] for a single mirror site. + +==== Supporting the wiki-admin@ team + +The Cluster Administration Team assumed the role of the wiki-admin for most of this quarter while the position was vacant. +A new wiki-admin team was recently installed. +The Cluster Administration Team continues to support the wiki-admin team with necessary upgrades to the backend wiki infrastructure. + +==== Large language model scraping + +The FreeBSD Project's infrastructure continues to be under constant attack from scrapers collecting training data for large language models ("AI"). +The companies training these models have largely moved scraping operations from their own -- easy to identify -- infrastructure to botnets ("residential proxies"), making them difficult to block at the network edges without significant collateral damage. +The Cluster Administration Team spent a considerable amount of time again this quarter mitigating these distributed denial of service attacks. + +Sponsor: Anonymous individuals and companies + +Sponsor: https://github.com/sponsors/ppaepshome | help
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