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Skriven 2016-05-26 12:02:28 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Important announcement affecting the whole of zone-2
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As many in the Z2 constituency know, during summer I am away for a lengthy time
and that may invoke the "Wevers Effect".
 
The "Wevers Effect" is named after a former Z2C Henk Wevers who had a system
which was notorious for crashing every time when he went on a vacation by car
before even reaching the first stop-sign at the end of his street.
 
Despite a number of ill-inspired rumours that 2:292/854 crashes all the time,
it was very reliable during the summers of 2009 throughout 2013.
 
In 2014 towards the end of my sojourn the powerbox in the house burned and send
a power-spike that damaged elements of the computer, lucky enough the house
didn't catch fire. The system outage was for about 10 days and everybody
survived.
 
Last year quite early in summer, July 3rd or 4th, someone local messed with the
system and blew the back-up. As a result it was partially down, accepting
inbound calls, processing mail, processing nodelists, putting them in the
FTP-area but not sending-out anything anymore.
 
Luck had it that previously Kees Van Eeten (2:280/5003), Michiel van der Vlist
(2:280/5555), Wilfred Van Velzen (2:280/464) and I privately had been talking
about a back-up scenario. We could call upon that scenario and Kees produced
the nodelist, daily-list, daily-utf and zone2 files until my return.
 
Not everybody caught it though but the system worked.
 
I've asked Kees to try that scenario again this summer, this time not as an
emergency-measure but as a planned event, and he agreed.
 
Therefor, as I will be leaving around June 9th, Kees will start distribution of
the NODELIST-, DAILYLST-, DAILYUTF- and ZONE2-files as of Friday June 3rd.
Anyone polling my system from that date until my return will not be getting
these files there.
 
My system as a rule forwards all the REGION-segments to Kees and has been doing
this already for years. As long as 2:292/854 is up that will continue to
happen, but if it doesn't happen anymore for whatever reason then there's a
problem.
 
To deal with that I request every RC who isn't doing this already, to deliver
their region-segments also to Kees at 2:280/5003 for proper inclusion. He is
also already receiving the ZONEx-segments from the other zones, so that info
will also be up to date.
 
Questions anyone ?
 
Ward Dossche
Z2C

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 * Origin: Many Glacier -- Protect - Preserve - Conserve (2:292/854)