Lost recent search results

03 Oct 23: One server was relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address since in the meantime it is running on starlink. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.

29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and obfuscated posts flood mass posted by a few nzb indexing websites using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic since their purpose is to post in such a way, so users must use their website exclusively, when the website disappears - the encrypted posts just eat usenet providers' hard disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know at alexbirj at gmail dot com what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Non-obfuscated posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

29 Nov 23: The search protocol had to be upgraded to extend 3 byte (16M+) limit on the server side for number of sets per instance, so at least the version 5.8.3 is needed to access it, otherwise should be no any difference.
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n2mdk
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Lost recent search results

Post by n2mdk »

I noticed that the Search is not finding the latest postings.
Not sure how far back it goes but it looks to be about the last week isn't showing up.
Just checked again looks like it's missing the last 2 weeks of info.
fyrsten
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Re: Lost recent search results

Post by fyrsten »

It seems to be a bigger problem.

A search for "Justified" returns a gap from the 34 days ago til 432 days ago. In that period the entire second season of Justified was UL.

So it seems that something is missing from the search results. This second season was available in search results a couple of weeks ago, so the problem has arisen within the last two weeks.
alex
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Re: Lost recent search results

Post by alex »

I had to omit a day range as quick fix, because of sudden rise in RAM consumption.

The problem has been now mostly resolved, there is newsgroup subset left uncovered in the range 375-425 days, I'll reengage it shortly.

I'm checking the RAM issue, most likely inconsistency with header feed or unusually large amount of spam.
alex
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Re: Lost recent search results

Post by alex »

all is ok now, the reason was ngroups had problem with header feed and it caused the trouble.
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