i have put the setups in the setup folder but they don't show up in lfs

I'll give the answer if you size down your sig

Quote from Victor :

I'll give the answer if you size down your sig

LMAO

well so far the problems seem to have been solved ... somehow ...

We did a reboot of the lfs.net server after which it did not come back online.
After having a closer look it became apparent that there is a physical network connection issue (either the network interface / cable or the switch). Chances are this is what cause the master server to behave irradically earlier on and a reboot surfaced the problem even more.

We're going to have to check which network component is faulty and replace it.

For now everything seems back to normal.