[IMC-Tech] Server/Transmitter Room Issues

[Stuart Levy]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:13:56PM -0500, Mike Lehman wrote:
> Can someone give a short explanation of why we continue to have 
> intermittent problems with the server/transmitter room. Is the power 
> going out or is just a connectivity problem with the network?

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> In any case, I was again unable reach the IMC website or any of the 
> groogroo mailing lists this morning between about 10:15am and 11:45am. 
> It has come back up, but given only intermittent connectivity since. It 
> loads about half the editor's webpage and then quits.This has gotten to 
> be a major problem and we need to make it a top priority to get it 
> resolved. It's like owning a car that is always in the shop and still 
> having to make payments on something that won't get you around the block.
> Mike Lehman

Curious -- is there any sort of external testing being done?
I could imagine setting up an automated gadget to try, say, to read
the front page of one of the IMC sites at regular intervals,
say every 15 or 30 minutes, from a non-IMC-network site.
If it caught a failure, you could compare later with logs on the
server end to see whether anything had got through at all.
Do you have information like that already, or if not, does it seem
worth trying?

   Stuart