Monthly Archives: January 2025

Dion Hulse 6:11 am on January 7, 2025
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Remove mu.wordpress.org’s deprecated forums

As this domain is no longer actively used, and we don’t need the MU support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations. archives from 15 years ago accessible, can we please:

  • Redirect https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/* to https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/
  • Return 404 https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/rss/* or let it fall through to the redirect to /

This will mean we don’t need to update bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. 0.9 for the next PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. upgrade.

#prio2 #bbpress

Dion Hulse 1:44 am on January 7, 2025
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IP routing issues / IP Blocked?

@theogibb has reported what looks to be either an upstream routing issue between Singlehop & Zayo, an IP blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. in the upstream provider, or a routing issue in a UK ISP.

Could someone from systems take a look? Unsure if this affects an individual or a wider network. The IP included is a DSL IP, so probably rather low priority unless this affects a wider range of users.

Traceroutes in https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-ip-address-blocked-on-wordpress-org/ & https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1735467303643249

Reverse traceroute to IP:

$ mtr -rc2 77.104.182.26
Start: Tue Jan  7 01:21:28 2025
HOST: dev.wordpress.org  Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- wordpress.org              0.0%    10    0.4   0.3   0.2   0.4   0.0
  2.|-- asw-fy171.ord03.singlehop  0.0%    10    0.9   0.9   0.8   1.0   0.0
  3.|-- cr1.c09c10.r15.s101.chi03  0.0%    10   45.1  45.1  45.0  45.2   0.0
  4.|-- ???                       100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0

$ mtr -rnc2 77.104.182.26
Start: Tue Jan  7 01:23:41 2025
HOST: dev.wordpress.org  Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 198.143.164.2              0.0%     2    0.3   0.3   0.3   0.3   0.0
  2.|-- 108.178.47.246             0.0%     2    0.8   0.8   0.8   0.9   0.0
  3.|-- 99.198.126.62              0.0%     2   45.2  45.2  45.2  45.2   0.0
  4.|-- ???                       100.0     2    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0

$ mtr -rc2 77.104.182.<strong>1</strong>
Start: Tue Jan  7 01:26:09 2025
HOST: dev.wordpress.org  Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- wordpress.org              0.0%     2    0.4   0.4   0.4   0.4   0.0
  2.|-- dr6506a.ord03.singlehop.net  0.0%     2    0.9   1.0   0.9   1.1   0.0
  3.|-- 77-104-182-1.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk  0.0%     2   45.2  45.2  45.2  45.2   0.0

(Note: Last is to the .1 which has no losses, but doesn’t seem to share any common route with end-users provided traceroute)

#prio3 #routing #connectivity