Re: Usenet Gateway down.... for two weeks

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Usenet Gateway down.... for two weeks
Date: 2008-02-20 01:54:35
Message-ID: 20080220015435.GL14892@alvh.no-ip.org
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:39:39 -0400 "Marc G. Fournier"
> <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > Looking into it ... odd thing is we used to have a mirror news
> > gateway out of France, which should have gave us the redundancy that
> > even if the primary were having gateway issues, the secondary would
> > have still been feeding articles ... will look into both sides ...
>
> Is there any kind of test we could put in place to make sure this
> doesn't happen again?

Agreed. Expecting to know about breakage just because someone complains
is no way to run a service.

> I mean I can't remember a single day in the last
> 5 years that hackers didn't get at least one message.

Well, in all likelyhood that would be a pretty unremarkable day, so if
it existed it wouldn't be a surprise that you wouldn't remember it.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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