Astraweb problems again

[fuz9]

What is PARS? Parity?

[shaina]

Things do tend to come and go a bit, but I tend to ignore things until they got really off the rails


The lack of a lot of posters to include anywhere near what I consider the minimum in pars (10%) adds to the problem.

I also notice that L3 (the primary feeder into Astra/US) has been messing around with their route tables this week, sometimes sending traffic down to LA on a loop. Unknown as to why.

Mr. Internet is not perfect. That's why PARS were invented, if folks would use them properly.

Yes that is true, but even in the providers I use sometimes the PARS don't download properly either, and I look for alternate newsgroup posts, and I see a lot more now, uploads of alternate groups to solve that problem (marked DG)

[Beck38]

As I noted on my '2015 Bitch List' a while back, a lot of posters fail to do a 'check' on both their rar and par generation, which leads to many archives being 'unrepairable'. Of course, this has nothing whatsoever to do with server failures.

[shaina]

As I noted on my '2015 Bitch List' a while back, a lot of posters fail to do a 'check' on both their rar and par generation, which leads to many archives being 'unrepairable'. Of course, this has nothing whatsoever to do with server failures.

That is true , and you would be correct , if you have it set to automatic ,and not do it manually with QuickPar and WinRAR yourself
I am a dinosaur, and still like the control of extracting what I want.

[Beck38]

Of course, even then one can go back and re-check 'manually', I do so all the time when I think I've had a 'brain freeze' or 'finger lock' when I finish packing things up.

[jiyuoer]

As I noted on my '2015 Bitch List' a while back, a lot of posters fail to do a 'check' on both their rar and par generation, which leads to many archives being 'unrepairable'. Of course, this has nothing whatsoever to do with server failures.

That is true , and you would be correct , if you have it set to automatic ,and not do it manually with QuickPar and WinRAR yourself
I am a dinosaur, and still like the control of extracting what I want.

Yea I'm the same, I prefer to extract manually too (manually pars too if extract fails first time), making sure the actual file I want has been selected (not .nfo .txt .pdf pics junk etc).

[shaina]

That is true , and you would be correct , if you have it set to automatic ,and not do it manually with QuickPar and WinRAR yourself
I am a dinosaur, and still like the control of extracting what I want.

Yea I'm the same, I prefer to extract manually too (manually pars too if extract fails first time), making sure the actual file I want has been selected (not .nfo .txt .pdf pics junk etc).

It is nice to know there is another dinosaur around still.

[Hypatia]

so..AW is fucking things up.. again.. shitload of incompletes not related to DMCA on lots of new stuff... I'm getting tired of this tbh..

[piercerseth]

Yeah, this weekend was a mess.

[Beck38]

They simply aren't paying attention; there appears to be a fault in the part of the s/w that transfers the incomming blocks ('uploads') from the 'front end' to the main storage.

One can see the problem straight away by running NZBcc right away after posting (with JbinUp of course which has 100% verified the upload of course), and one will get several percent 'MIA', which 'improves' back up to 100% after a few hours. Then 'fades' down to x% for several days/weeks before crawling back up. The EU server is, at least for things posted on the US, really has trouble.

I wonder if the base s/w they are running is a bit too much 'cobbled together' versus some other plants (GN and Blocknews in particular). But that doesn't excuse not being more watchful on the operation.

I think it's rather like the DC Metro subway system; they've been running it in 'auto' mode for so long without upgrading the sensors that are getting old and failing, that they don't (or won't) fix things until a major crash. It's something to keep in mind if one uses them consistantly.

But it appears that the propagation out to other Usenet servers works 100%; so where as Astra may be fading out, folks like GN and BN are 100%, thankfully. Still wants one to beat the Astra ops upside the head.