[Imc-tech] Re: what's up with groogroo?

[Zachary C. Miller]

I have an order in with McLeod as of Friday for a SDSL line. I am
waiting for a phone call back from them today confirming the details
(price, install date, etc).

I am working today with Josh from Sol Tec on our SBC/Soltec ADSL
line. There are several experiments that we are going to try.

I have gotten Josh from Sol Tec to give me access to the router, I'm
going to use that to write a script to reboot the router whenever the
packet loss goes above a certain level. 

I'm shopping around today for a Netopia router which (based on
anecdotal evidence) works better in situations like this.

I now have access to the router and so will write a script today to
reboot the router (by logging into it and issuing a reboot command)
whenever the packet loss goes above a certain threshhold.

Moving groogroo over to the IMC would be fairly non-trivial. This is
an option if things don't get taken care of soon. I am going on
vacation from Wednesday until Monday. There's no way we could handle
the server move before then. Any ill-planned server move we did would
probably mean 2-3 days of downtime for all groogroo hosted sites. 

Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> hi zach et al.,
> 
> people are beginning to leave their groogroo accounts to use things like
> hotmail, our website has been more or less off-line for going on two
> months, i've been receiving (on those rare occasions when i can actually
> access my account) angry letter from folks wanting to post articles and
> access websites...  this is _extremely_ bad for the UCIMC. 
> 
> what is going on with groogroo & sol tec?  at this point i think we should
> move groogroo to the IMC building or come up with another solution?
> without any timeline for when things will be fixed i really think we need
> to get some sort of stop-gap solution in place.  this situation is causing
> major negative repercussions for the UCIMC, and i don't see any end to the
> problem right now.
> 
> thoughts & suggestions?
> 
> --sascha
> 

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