Dan is super busy with the demands of day to day life and BBSing has had to take a bit of a back seat for now. I want to thanks Dan so much for all the contributions he has made to fsxNet and in the hosting and admin of the NET 4 HUB he has done over the year. Dan, it's really appreciated thank you :) My hope is we see you active in BBSing again sometime soon.
In the meantime Dan has kindly supplied me with the HUB config settings and BBS node configs for fsxNet BBS using the current NET 4 HUB.
I have been working to setup a mirror HUB hosted on my systems and one that will also be listening for incoming NET 4 node traffic on the port Dan has been using - 24560
I'll reply over in FSX_NET :)
On 17 Mar 2024 at 02:13p, Avon pondered and said...
Please ensure you are polling net4.fsxnet.nz:24560
another reminder if you are a NET 4 node please ensure you have the above domain name and port set up to poll the 21:4/100 HUB.
When we cut over to the new NET 4 HUB instance I will update the DNS records to point to the new HUB.
I plan to do this on 31 March (my time in New Zealand, or likely to b 30 March elsewhere in the world)... and when I do we will ensure the file and echomail links to the 'old' HUB will be closed down. I'll th ask Dan to shutdown that server.
this is coming the in the next few days.
I'm picking if some sysops who run their BBS on 'auto' then login to find no new traffic on fsxNet they may come calling to me then. We'll that's the thinking..
I am also aware that there are a number of inactive nodes in NET 4 an plan to prune them in early April once the cut over is done. In the meantime I have taken over NET 4 nodelist segment duties and marked a number of nodes a 'Down' that appear to be long inactive based on sta Dan's system is posting each day to the Stats echo.
..as is this :)
Final call, all NET 4 nodes.. ding ding...
OK folks I'm starting the change over process now, so this will mean some niggles for active NET 4 nodes over the coming 24 hours.
Shortly I will be de-linking NET 1 from the 'old' NET 4 HUB and updating the DNS records for net4.fsxnet.nz to point to the new of NET 4 instance
I will be running. I'll also link NET 1 to this new version of the NET 4 HUB.
Shortly I will be de-linking NET 1 from the 'old' NET 4 HUB and updating
If you're a NET 4 node and having issues getting hooked up to the new instance of the NET 4 HUB please email me avon@bbs.nz and I'll work with you to get hooked up.
In the coming 2 weeks once the cut over has occurred I plan to revisit
the NET 4 nodelist segment and prune it where necessary.
I'll also work to start posting some stats from the NET 4 system I have spun up but that's a secondary priority at the moment.
Sysop: | digital man |
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