Is there a problem with the search service?

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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ehmbe
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Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by ehmbe »

I keep getting: "Search failed. A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time"

Is it just me or is there something else going on?
dxh
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by dxh »

I had the same thing happen to me, it didn't work since yesterday evening, this morning it started working again, but I'm not getting the same results. I'm searching for something around the 1000 days old stuff, before this event I got results, now I get "No matches found" for the exact same search.

Will the search be back to normal again?
alex
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by alex »

I restarted search service in backup configuration after one location connectivity failed, the backup retention is 550 days, I'll switch to full retention as soon as the connectivity is restored.

But at the time of the first post in the thread (5 hours ago) the search was already working, I just shortly took it down to create a copy of data on a separate disk.
ehmbe
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by ehmbe »

Ok, I just tried it and it's working again.

Thanks for looking into it!
Mierzoet
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by Mierzoet »

I think the service needs to be restarted again.
Same issue....
n2mdk
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by n2mdk »

Having the same problem Search Failed (5)
Party not responding...
Black76
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by Black76 »

Search not working for me either. Getting: "Search failed (5)"
sorabji
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by sorabji »

Same here
Search failed (5)
All day Sunday

:cry:
alex
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Re: Is there a problem with the search service?

Post by alex »

There was outage here because of bad weather and I didn't have search service monitor running (switched off the desktop computer where the monitor is running to save on batteries).

On a server location (totally different) a breaker tripped 11 hours ago, an older computer restarted, but the newest computer didn't restart automatically, probably wrong bios settings.

I'll try run search service monitor on laptop in case of outages in the future.
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