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Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Tue, 15 March 2005 22:28

Ron

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Location: Collegedale, TN

The location hosting the AutoHost server had a router problem. No one (including me) could access the server for 2 hours. All games are on hold, game hosts can take their games off of hold when they choose to.

Thank you for your patience.

Ron Miller
Stars! AutoHost

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 02:31

imkeshav

Master Chief Petty Officer

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Registered: November 2004
Location: Land of many ppl

Can I upload when game is on hold..

Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question

keshav

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 03:28

Storm

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Registered: February 2005
Location: Wanker's Corner

Yes, you can indeed!

Upload away, my friend! Your enemies are waiting.... Wink

Actually, I have a HOLD question too.... is there any way (and I think the answer is NO) that you can take the game off HOLD without generating another year?

As I said, I reckon the answer is NO, but it'd be cool if you could! Cool

** Storm **

"Yeah... but... Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like f***ing Shaft!"

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 03:44

Micha

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Storm wrote on Wed, 16 March 2005 09:28

The answer is "yes, but ..." Wink

When a game generates let's say at 8am and is put on hold at 5am you can take it off hold any time before 8am without the game genning another year right away. However if you take it off hold at 9am it will see it is already past gen time and gen immediately ...

Well, that's the *theory* ... but it's tricky and sometimes that doesn't always seem to be true. I think most hosts will rather delay the game to make sure all turns are in before taking the game off hold (I always do). Regens are a hosts worst nightmare. Evil or Very Mad

mch

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 03:46

Storm

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Registered: February 2005
Location: Wanker's Corner

Oooh...
Right....
Ok....

Er... I'm not going near it. Uh-uh... Not taking the risk.. No way. Too painful... Confused

** Storm **

"Yeah... but... Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like f***ing Shaft!"

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 04:27

Carn

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Messages: 284
Registered: May 2003

Grrh!

Send host and other players yesterday evening a mail about autohost being down and me being unable to upload. I decided sometime, that it's not worth missing further sleep waiting for autohost. This morning i saw that a gen was done.

Grrh!

Carn

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 04:31

Storm

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Registered: February 2005
Location: Wanker's Corner

I guess that you can't stop it generating whilst the servers are out of action...

I'm hoping it'll help my players get their arses into gear in future... Wink

** Storm **

"Yeah... but... Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like f***ing Shaft!"

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 13:38

vonKreedon

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Registered: March 2003
Location: Seattle, WA USA

Carn wrote on Wed, 16 March 2005 01:27

I've had that happen to me a couple of times.

A word to hosts:
Please, when a game is on hold do NOT let the game gen without sending mail to all active players, even if you have not received a mail like Carns, giving them a reasonable timeframe before the game will come off of hold and gen. Reasonable timeframe will differ depending on how many different timezones your players inhabit so that all will have the opportunity to see your mail and submit a turn.

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Wed, 16 March 2005 22:35

Ron

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Guess I should add some code to check if AH can ping things on the Internet, and auto pause/shutdown if it can't.

Ron Miller
Stars! AutoHost

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Thu, 17 March 2005 06:13

donjon

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Ron wrote on Wed, 16 March 2005 21:35

Guess I should add some code to check if AH can ping things on the Internet, and auto pause/shutdown if it can't.

Ping is a very basic protocol... it would be wiser to try some more complex type query... perhaps a nameservice lookup... for some site which is *always* up... I have had my server able to ping but not receive on more than a few occasions.

regards,
donjon

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Thu, 17 March 2005 10:55

dennis

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Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan

Even though the probability of the one of the main dns servers being down is very very very low..., I suggest quering 2 to 3 different servers...every hour or every two hours.....just to be extremely sure.... Smile

[Updated on: Thu, 17 March 2005 10:55]

Hakuna Matata

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Thu, 17 March 2005 11:04

Storm

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Registered: February 2005
Location: Wanker's Corner

Out of interest, has anybody got a log of how many times the Autohost servers have been down over the last 12 months... and for how long?

Just personal curiosity! Smile

** Storm **

"Yeah... but... Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like f***ing Shaft!"

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Re: Mar. 15, 2005 AutoHost outage

Fri, 18 March 2005 10:28

dennis

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Not too many times I think...
Well it had to go down when autohost moved to a new server...
and then on March 15th ofcourse.......other than that i don't really remember it going down...maybe one or two more times....at the most....... Smile

Hakuna Matata

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