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

[Sascha Meinrath]

Good to know -- keep us posted as to what's happening.  I, like you, have 
been getting hate-mail about groogroo and am just about at wits end about 
what to do...  Hopefully the router reboot script will help a bit -- but 
I'll be a lot happier when we have a McLeod line as a backup.

--Sascha

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Zachary C. Miller wrote:

> 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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