We here at AllStarLink are not always best at publishing what the organization is up to. There's lots of great things happening, some more visible than others. Below is a bit of what we've been up to since the AllStar project was turned over to us. AllStarLink has assembled team of around a dozen volunteer admin/support experts to troubleshoot any possible AllStar infrastructure problems, process node and user ID requests, improve and bug fix ASL, attempt to keep up with end user support and pay the bills. Our team has identified and fixed every issue which has been brought to our attention. There is always room for improvement and we're continually working to this end. We are improving the current infrastructure to eliminate single points of failure. There are new geo-redundant registration servers in test with a clustered database backend. DNS has been migrated to this cluster of servers and has been running without fail for months. As AllStar supports a diverse userbase; many running older distributions at remote sites who desire stability, our admin team must operate with stability as the highest priority. As such we cannot make sweeping changes to critical network infrastructure without extensive testing. The registration and database servers have uptimes approaching a year, and have been continually available during this time. These servers are responsible for the nodes list, which is distributed to redundant public facing servers and on to users AllStar nodes. Even in the event of an outage during maintenance, the node list simply stops updating for a time. While inconvenient to nodes registering during this window, the vast majority of nodes are still able to link with this older node list. Our admin team has built a new stats server and are working on a new portal. By the way, we have been successfully processing ID and node requests on this new portal for months and have received very positive feedback on its new node list. We added a new node map and performance improvements to the stats server. MediaWiki has been installed with advanced search, a WYSIWYG editor, and other plugins, enabling anyone to create or update documentation. The Drupal site at docs.allstarlink.org is migrating as editors time permits. Our distribution has been updated including ASL 1.01 to run on the latest OS and has many improvements. More improvements are under active development. We're always open to assistance, whether it be design work, admin/support team help, or a completely new feature created by a code contributor. It's easy to get involved at any level. In closing we want to stress that if you have a problem with AllStar servers or want to help out in any way, please let us know by posting to the app_rpt-users list. That's the best way to insure the fastest response. AllStarLink, Inc. Directors: Kevin Custer, W3KKC Pete Elke, WI6H Bryan Fields, W9CR Tim Sawyer, WD6AWP