Error communicating with server

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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Marten Fokkens
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Error communicating with server

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Search failed - Error communicating with server.

What server is meaned?
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Mierzoet
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Post by Mierzoet »

Same here.....

Whole afternoon....

grtz,
Twan
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alex
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the search service configuration has changed.

it works from here and i see users can access everything as usual.

when i reset search service configuration in properties->general it reacquires the new configuration right as well. if you reset it does UE downloads the configuration or gives an error?

did you see the message box about changing configuration, what is the exact error? if it cannot change it - it will complain about firewall i think, in short UE needs to download the configuration file from the UE website, so it needs permission to access www.netwu.com/ue port 80

tomorrow i'll change it again finally, still need little more preparations.
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Post by alex »

ok i see now (got email) it is not the search but the import header stage.

it is some problem with compacting database (i ran the database through compact procedure to prepare configuration change), i'll check this tomorrow, in the meantime i've restored the previous configuration, so all should work.
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Marten Fokkens
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Post by Marten Fokkens »

Hello Alex

I put the program in the Firewall and now it works again.

Thank you very much


Marten
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Post by alex »

no i think it started working because i switched it back.

tomorrow i'll check what it was, in principle i don't need to run compact as well, just i'm preparing the configuration for retention upgrade, if i did it earlier compact would save some space, now it is not really much, but notwithstanding that the function should work, i'll check it does before exposing anything to users.
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Mierzoet
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Post by Mierzoet »

thanx, for the quick work (again!!!)

:)
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Josef K
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Post by Josef K »

I had this earlier but my firewall popped up asking for access to a new address. I allowed it and it worked fine. It seems that some firewalls aren't asking permission when anything changes.
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Post by alex »

the compact function was ok, just the server side generated wrong crc for import header stage because i changed something there for v2.0 and didn't reflect it in the server code and the server is compiled from the most recent code, not from the current version project.

but anyway now i've completed all those changes including switching the configuration.
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