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03 Oct 23: One server has been relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address in the meantime. 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" flood mass posted by few nzb websites and newzbin-like communities using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic, since posts are disguised in such a way, that users must use the satellite ecosystem (whish is not a part of Usenet) exclusively to download them, when the website disappears - the encrypted scattered posts just eat usenet providers' disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Legible posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

08 Aug 24: After being unchanged for many years the search service communication protocol had to be updated a few times in part to resolve a server side set feature limitation and properly handle trial searches on the relocated server. The searches themselves are not affected and it looks like the work is now complete.
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swent
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Search failure

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I'm getting the (10) failed to respond error today. I can't be sure how long it's been down, I've gotten it for about an hour now.
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alex
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Re: Search failure

Post by alex »

i'll switch to backup configuration in the meantime, temporary routing issue.
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alex
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Re: Search failure

Post by alex »

Restarted it normally, the problem has been completely resolved.
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Sheffer
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Re: Search failure

Post by Sheffer »

I'm still getting Search failure (8) here, been like that for around half an hour at least. Just FYI.
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n2mdk
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Re: Search failure

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Search Service is still giving Search Failed (8) Server is being restarted after maintenance.
It will be available shortly.
It's been that way since 12:30 CST
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alex
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Re: Search failure

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i've switched it to backup again.

it appears power went down and two computers were affected, there was some problem with one restarting and second one took too long I'm checking error log.
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tbindler
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Re: Search failure

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Since the last restart of the server, I have incomplet result for my search.
For example, if I search 'fansadox', I have :
- no result between the day 1 and 68.
- no result oder than 328 days
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alex
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Re: Search failure

Post by alex »

I restarted it already normally, so should be no such issue any more.

When it was in a backup configuration gaps may exist, but recent results are always there.

The backup configuration means one or two computers are down so I cannot have search service to load all retention, if the computers are expected to be up within short time I only adjust headers from the present to some time backwards so they will be continuous and complete, the rest of computers I keep it as it is so later I can restart search normally faster.
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