Search service down

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.

15 Mar 25: It looks like the search service is currently down as there are no pings. The other server is no more on starlink, but the search requests are still routed and the access to it is through the first server, since it is safer, but the direct access is no problem if this will be a repeated issue. The connection will be restored or server restarted as soon as possible.

16 Mar 25: One server is currently still down, the other server was reconfigured and already connected directly, so the search service is running with minimum possible retention gaps.
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Marten Fokkens
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Post by Marten Fokkens »

No problem. It's OK now.

Regards Marten
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Post by alex »

i'm restarting the server with higher retention (50 days, the first upgrade stage i mentioned before, same server software, just more usable RAM), should be up in about 10 minutes.
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i've just restarted the server with 60 day retention without any software modification running on a dedicated desktop grade computer, i'm not sure to keep it like that and push it further (maybe now with some kind of software optimization) or to use a different model with which allows much higher retention like double etc. (also needs a simple software modification but then one more computer is needed), RAM usage seems to be ok though, anyway it is worthy to check how it works.
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i'm restarting the server again with 67 days retention (max what usenet providers give is now only 65 even if they claim more) should be up in less than 10 minutes.
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Post by alex »

i won't announce single restarts any longer since they take only 10 minutes, but we'll keep the thread for other occasions.
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MageMaster
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Search Service Status

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This may be the wrong place to post this, but is there a plan to have an inprogram status light or anything? Reason I ask, is due to that I just about never close UE at all, and it looks like that check for new version only executes on startup? If the status light was off or someother color due to a new release I would be more informed. :) hehe

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alex
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Post by alex »

as to the indexing server it is running continuously, if there will be anything new like i'll be checking something again i'll just put it on the forum category description page.

as to ue i think it checks for the new version periodically, it implemented it like that during testing stage before official release and left it then (if iremember it right it checks for an update only after you downloaded an article body, it is the trigger and i think once in 24 hours).
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dengle
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Short down-time

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The index server computer is being physically moved. It will be down for approximately 15 to 20 minutes during this time starting now, 12:57PM EST
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Post by bassie »

sometimes this story happens:

i search for files with the search.

Then files are found.

I go away for a while and find that the search service is down. Then i try to download the files i found before the search service was down (i see that because the program says there is no connection...)
But that does not work, because it says that there is no connection with the search service.

Does this mean that the results of the search are not stored by the program?

I cannot repeat it now because everything is working.
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Post by alex »

import header stage requires server too.

the server is constantly up. i upgraded the server about 26 hours ago, it indicated by then about 65 hours of running time (no restart since moving the server). it has automatic restart mechanism as well, but it didn't crash so there were no spontaneous restarts and the new computer looks ok (now i know i was stupid always buying intel), so no problems. if it restarted by itself i'll see it. if i restart it myself because of software upgrade it takes (in fact any kind of restart would take the same) about 10 minutes but i don't upgrade it frequently.

if you see server down, check the dns of ueservice.dyndns.org is resolved (you may try to use the server ip address then although i cannot assure you it will be always constant).
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Post by dengle »

due to extremely bad weather, internet connectivity is down to the index server. a call has been placed with the isp in question, however there is no eta as power and cable lines are down in multiple locations.
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Post by dengle »

Figures. About 30 minutes after I posted the previous message, internet connectivity was restored :-P
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