Вард подстраховался на случай падения автопилота

Vladimir Fyodorov написал(а) к All в May 16 13:29:38 по местному времени:


> Z2C Вард Дошше, памятуя о постоянных проблемах со своим узлом во время
> его плановых летних отъездов, на этот раз решил подложить соломки. Он
> заранее передаст функции сборщика нодлиста Kees Van Eeten (2:280/5003).

Заранее приношу извинения, если недостаточно верно понял суть письма Z2C - мой английский оставляет желать лучшего. Если кто-то может уточнить и дополнить эту новость - можно сразу писать здесь.

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* Area : REGCON.EUR
* From : Ward Dossche, 2:292/854 (26 Мая 2016 12:02)
* Subj : Important announcement affecting the whole of zone-2
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As many in the Z2 constituency know, during summer I am away for a lengthy time and that may invoke the "Wevers Effect".

The "Wevers Effect" is named after a former Z2C Нenk Wevers who had a system which was notorious for crashing every time when he went on a vacation by car before even reaching the first stop-sign at the end of his street.

Despite a number of ill-inspired rumours that 2:292/854 crashes all the time, it was very reliable during the summers of 2009 throughout 2013.

In 2014 towards the end of my sojourn the powerbox in the house burned and send a power-spike that damaged elements of the computer, lucky enough the house didn't catch fire. The system outage was for about 10 days and everybody survived.

Last year quite early in summer, July 3rd or 4th, someone local messed with the system and blew the back-up. As a result it was partially down, accepting inbound calls, processing mail, processing nodelists, putting them in the FTP-area but not sending-out anything anymore.

Luck had it that previously Kees Van Eeten (2:280/5003), Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555), Wilfred Van Velzen (2:280/464) and I privately had been talking about a back-up scenario. We could call upon that scenario and Kees produced the nodelist, daily-list, daily-utf and zone2 files until my return.

Not everybody caught it though but the system worked.

I've asked Kees to try that scenario again this summer, this time not as an emergency-measure but as a planned event, and he agreed.

Therefor, as I will be leaving around June 9th, Kees will start distribution of the NODELIST-, DAILYLST-, DAILYUTF- and ZONE2-files as of Friday June 3rd. Anyone polling my system from that date until my return will not be getting these files there.

My system as a rule forwards all the REGION-segments to Kees and has been doing this already for years. As long as 2:292/854 is up that will continue to happen, but if it doesn't happen anymore for whatever reason then there's a problem.

To deal with that I request every RC who isn't doing this already, to deliver their region-segments also to Kees at 2:280/5003 for proper inclusion. Нe is also already receiving the ZONEx-segments from the other zones, so that info will also be up to date.

Questions anyone ?

Ward Dossche
Z2C
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