Pyzor problems?

[Julian Field]

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Dhawal Doshy wrote:

> Ugo Bellavance writes:
>
>> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone else seeing Pyzor problems at the moment?
>>>> I have just got enough horsepower to use Pyzor on my production
>>>> systems,
>>>> having never used it before. It built and installed just fine, and
>>>> "pyzor discover" worked.
>>>>
>>>> But I get
>>>> # /usr/local/bin/pyzor ping
>>>> 66.250.40.33:24441      TimeoutError:
>>>> and SpamAssassin just hangs when trying to get a response to the pyzor
>>>> request.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything I'm likely to be missing? Or is it really down now?
>>>> If it is down, does anyone know the owner and could ask him to take a
>>>> look at his server?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Go those errors too.  I wrote the pyzor-users list.  We'll see what
>>> happens.  I found the author's e-mail address.  ftobin |at| neverending
>>> |dot| org.
>>>
>>
>> Someone responded:
>>
>> Appears the server is down:
>>
>> $ pyzor ping
>> 66.250.40.33:24441      TimeoutError:
>>
>> That makes me wonder... is there only one server?  Maybe some of us
>> could run a pyzor server to spread the load and avoid this kind of
>> situation?
>>
>> I'll let you know about my findings.
>>
>> Ugo
>>
>
> The server did respond to both ping / traceroute, though a nagios-plugin
> check failed.
> [root at mx1 ~]# ./check_udp -H 66.250.40.33 -p 24441
> Receive failed
> No response from host on port 24441
>
> Also as per this
> 'https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6989953&forum_id=87
>
> 11', pyzord lacks syncing features, hence i assume there is only one
> server.
> (though why he didn't think of ssh + rsync to do the syncing effectively
> outside of pyzor is beyond me.)

I don't honestly think I can make a production service dependent upon a
global service that is provided by 1 system!

I'm slightly surprised that anyone uses it as a serious resource.

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