Astrraweb/US going 'off the rails' again with massive skips/incompletes

[Beck38]

Astra got back to me (they're confirming/working on it) and it appears from the slowdowns today that some beating on the plant has begun.

So far, I haven't seen any problems with outgoing or incoming propagation, but I have seen an overall slowdown in outgoing transfers (better known as 'leeching') although there may be differences as to whether the files are old/new/whatever.

[Beck38]

UPDATE: It appears as though the latest problem is being repaired, I noted that where the 'gap' started (around 5-10 March) it has been pretty well cleared up (completion around 99+%) and am currently re-running checks going back a month or so (to around 1Feb).

If that checks out good, I'll re-run checks back the 6+ months and verify that 'all is good again' on Astra/US. It will take some time (a good 12 hours from now should do it) so hopefully by then things will be okay.

During all this, the EU server seemed to be just fine, so again, US folks that put the EU server as a 'secondary' in their d/l'er probably didn't seem much if anything unless a bit slower as the bits had to 'cross the pond' a bit more than usual.

Yet Another Update:
Looking good going back 6 months, doing a wide check right now, will take another 12 or so hours, but it's looking really good so far, everything at 98-99+% complete if NZBcc can be fully believed.

This is the third or fourth major 'gap' I've found in the last couple of years (I must admit that they've jumped on them pretty quickly and repaired them all in a couple weeks), I wondered (to them) if Astra's program (if any) to catch these anomalies is 'up to the task' if if takes some user to find and figure them out, maybe they need to 're-visit' their automated (or manual) system to be more pro-active in fixing things. (this pre-supposes there is any program in place...!)

P.S. For those who were seeing slowdowns and such over the last week plus. I notice after this repair, things have been VERY speedy, even going back a couple of years or more.

[Beck38]

Completed a review going back some 4 years (to 2010) and things look great (worst case, 99.4% complete). Please remember, these are on files that were all posted using JBinUP in full verification mode, and were re-checked a day or two after posting with NZBcc reporting 100% on BOTH Astra/US (where they were posted) and on Astra/EU, AND re-checked some 30 days later and still reporting at 99% or better.

'Just fer fun' I'm running a REALLY deep verification back to 'day zero' of Astra retention (currently mid August 2008) although obviously JBinUp and NZBcc didn't exist at the time, I utilized other tools to verify posting and retention at the time, and it will be interesting, as it always is, to see how things that old are 'fairing' in the storage plant.

'Looking Back' showed that things are pretty much 96%+ back to around Oct08 and begins to pretty much drop off before that, by the time it gets into Aug08 it's almost completely gone (gets below 10% recoverable). But that's really pretty good, I would say that anything back to around 1 Jan 09 is 'good to go', now if there were only decent indexers that could go that far back...!

Anyway, things are looking good, until I note things going 'off the rails' the next time, and hopefully perhaps they (Astra) can come up with a good scanning program (human or automated) that will catch problems before they become problems.

[myself12345]

Its still all messed up all my headers are incomplete and NZB from up-loaders who are posting with astraweb are garbage and they propagating to other servers like this so it effects everyone.
This really sucks Ive never seen it this bad

I emailed them also and got the same BS reply that they are working on it.

edit

Seems to be working again...but for how long.

[Beck38]

Propagation is at the top of my list of checking things, including several major plants (Giganews, Blocknews, Usenet-News, etc), and over the years, propagation OUT of Astra/US has been virtually perfect.

Not to say the INGRESS at some of those plants (Giganews in particular) don't go off the rails for a day or two at times, then take another couple of days to 'catch up'. In the meantime during those events, the other major plants have absolutely no problem with receiving and keeping up with the Astra/US feed. In looking at how Giga is being run during these events, they have invariably changed their peering (out of the blue) so that instead of getting a 'direct' feed from Astraweb they change to a feed out of (insert strange usenet plant out of the other side of the planet, like RUSSIA).

Then, like I said, a couple days later (out of the blue) they change back, and within a couple days 'back fill' all the parts they missed while playing buds with x.

Everyone who does any large scale work with Astra/US knows of the Sunday PM slowdowns; lately, it tends to come and go, and be a bit less time wise (2-3 hours) instead of what it was a year ago (6+ hours usually). Simply avoid that chunk of time, and you're probably okay.

But like I reported above, it looks like the entire 2000+ days of retention are good to go, and I see no slowdowns at present (up to my present ISP bandwidth, of course).

[myself12345]

well i download mainly headers from astraweb and ton of incomplete today and those post are still incomplete ATM so i dont see how retention are good
Like i said astra is still having issues


This was pretty much every server ATM things seem OK but im sure it will go to shit again.

http://i.imgur.com/wovrihm.png

[DaDD]

Seems to happen once a week lately. Not on astraweb but groups on my providers feed is filled with their post

[Beck38]

Seems to happen once a week lately. Not on astraweb but groups on my providers feed is filled with their post

What 'provider'? Your ISP usenet server or what... identify.

[TheRoo]

Really slow speeds for me and lots of incomplete this week.

[vigor5000]

I downloaded a nzb earlier today and it completed(about 1 year old post) 30 mins later I tried same one again from different nzb sites too and it wont download now.I am testing few ngp(5-10)too and have few block accounts.anyone can tell me wht its not working and what is that internode server?