OOT: Pyzor discovery problem

[Glenn Steen]

On 15/09/06, Martin Hepworth <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> > On 15/09/06, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (snip)
> >> Might be a file that's corrupted... Try doing the discover (and a
> >> subsequent ping) to some other directory. If that works, simple remove
> >> the old and redo, if not, well... then I suppose a reinstall is in
> >> order (which would rewrite any corrupted files). You shouldn't need
> >> disable pyzor, bu... better safe than sorry, I suppose:-).
> >> IIRC doing discoveries all the time (well, once per day:-) isn't
> >> really necessary with pyzor... Unless I remember wrong there only is
> >> one server, and thats the way things are. So one could well hold of
> >> with the discoveries until one sees that pyzor just don't work:-).
> >>
> >> A philosophical musing one could have is on the reliability of a
> >> service that only have one central server ... :-). Puts all those
> >> "TimoutErrors" into perspective:-)
> >>
> > (Yeah yeah... me proving I'm a postfix user, by replying to myself:-)
> >
> > If this is due to fs corruption, you should (of course) endevor to do
> > some fsck'ing... Even journalised filesystems (read "ext3") might need
> > that from time to time...
> >
> >
>
>  From what I can see pyzor is having problems...there's only one server
> and I can never "pyzor ping" it...always times out and I've not had a
> pyzor score in my spam for weeks...
>
> I know certain people have offered some server space/bandwidth to the
> maintainer but the offer doesn't seem to have been taken up...
>
> I'm considering turning it off and getting razor2 going instead (i've
> already got dcc)
>
Oh yes, this is very true... In fact, I've been running all three for
quite some time (For those DIGEST_MULTIPLE scores:-). Used to be that
pyzor was really contributing,but now it is more incidental than
anything:-).
On the other hand, I've actually succeeded pinging it lately, so ...
things might not be all black:P
-------
# pyzor ping
66.250.40.33:24441      (200, 'OK')
# pyzor discover
downloading servers from
http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/inform-servers-0-3-x
# pyzor ping
66.250.40.33:24441      TimeoutError:
# pyzor ping
66.250.40.33:24441      (200, 'OK')
# pyzor ping
66.250.40.33:24441      TimeoutError:
# pyzor ping
66.250.40.33:24441      (200, 'OK')
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All those were done in a pretty quick succession, so ... illustrates
the problems it has pretty well:).


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