[Moon-net] MOON-NET STATUS

[SA6AQD Magnus]

Dave skrev:
> Ok I seems the list is back in operation. My test came back to me with-in 3
> minutes of being submitted to the list address. I'm sorry for the delays
> with getting the list back online after the move.
>
> The old server was getting outdated and was on it's last legs. It had
> several drives go out within a few months and was getting to be unreliable.
> My choices were to do a full clean of the drives and reinstall or just get a
> fancy new up-to-date server. I chose the new server option. More money but
> it seems to be the best bet. But one of the 58 accounts would NOT move to
> the server. It happened to be the account that holds the LISTS. So it took
> manual moves and lots of work to get things back in swing. After today I
> think we have most of the bugs worked out and all should be back in order.
> As they restarted MAILMAN, the list software, I received 30 or so emails
> that seemed to be hung. Posts to the list were getting to the server, but
> were not going OUT, like a black hole. I guess the techs unplugged the hole
> and all is well now I hope..
>
> I'll be tweaking the new server as the week goes but you should not see any
> more issues for awhile as I hope to not have to update to new hardware
> anytime soon. Just way to much hassle. PLEASE DO NOT SEND TEST MESSAGES
>
> Let me repeat, PLEASE DO NOT TEST THE SERVER. Each test message generates
> over 4000 emails, and fills the mail spool again. This causes the posts to
> be delayed even more as it sorts the posts and places the last posts in back
> and the new post in front. All your doing is causes a slow return on the
> post to the server. If you must test, post a real message and give it time
> to sort through and email out. The server is able to send over 1000 emails
> per minute, if it's a longer delay its YOUR ISP delaying the mail. I have
> PAGES and reports I see every night after maintance runs that show messages
> being rejected by overseas mail servers telling the server to try again,
> This places the message on a 4 hour waiting list before retying.
>
> With that, I hope all works again and we can get back to a calm list. Let me
> or the list admin know if you have any issues and we'll see what we can do
> asap.
>
> Dave
> N5ITO
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Thank you for your job you had done there, and it was fun to recived 
mail again, got 81 just now from december to date

/Magnus SA6AQD