Network outage report - 3/18/08, 8:01pm PDT - 9:25 pm PDT

March 20th, 2008 by justin

We had a network outage at our San Jose datacenter tonight from 8:01 pm PDT until 9:25 pm PDT on March 18. From initial investigation, it appears that one of the switches in a blade server chassis had a software issue, causing a network-wide broadcast storm. Overall effect was that the switching fabric […]


Call out for Mirrors

February 19th, 2008 by justin

One Mozilla’s biggest assets is our mirror network. It allows us to update over 100 million users in under 48 hours with security updates, host and push extensions, and much more - all with donated server space and bandwidth, giving us the ability to focus our efforts on supporting the development community and making all […]


Bugzilla Improvements

December 5th, 2007 by justin

Bugzilla basically runs Mozilla - it’s core to almost everything we do from tracking core Firefox bugs to tracking Marketing events to operating as our IT ticket queue. Quite simply, we wouldn’t be who we are today without it. With all its greatness, there are quite a few things that don’t quite fit […]


China, similar to you and me

August 28th, 2007 by justin

I’m about mid way through my first trip to China (in Beijing) - first time to the far east for that matter, and I have to say it’s a pretty interesting place. I’ve been all over europe and north america, but what has really struck me is how Beijing is similar to many other […]


Blog.mozilla.com - blogs for the people

October 11th, 2006 by justin

We (IT) put up a new blog server to help consolidate and provide a supported and maintained blog server. Expect to see a lot more blogs showing up from MozCorp people here…should be fun.