-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 AllStar Network Maintenance Announcement 10 August 2018 Summary During the evening on Sunday August 12, 2018 between 0400 to 0600 UTC, the AllStar Operations Team will perform a migration of registration and nodes servers. During this time, registration may be unavailable, and/or the portal may be unavailable via the website and via phone. We expect this migration to be completed in two hours time or backed out. Detailed notes AllStarLink is committed to the availability of our core network services. That's why we are migrating registration onto a modern server system. Our current server is about 9 years old and while we've seen no failures of hardware, prudent engineering dictates it must be replaced with newer hardware. The current server does much more than IAX registration of nodes; there's database, web portal, SIP access, proxy, nodelist generation and more. Many of these functions are not core network functions, meaning if the function is down, users can still register nodes and connect to other nodes. An example of this is the stats server, or the web portal. Either can be offline, but the network will still function. The Operations Team has built and tested a new registration server and new nodes servers which serve up the extnodes database files. Our team has been testing this for the last few months internally, and believes it's ready for production. We expect a much faster convergence time for node registration due to our new faster servers, better scripting and lighter load the servers. Our testing includes all major and historical AllStar versions, dating back to limey linux and ACID. We know many users have older hardware installed on a mountain or other inaccessible site, and requiring a node upgrade is not feasible. Any users requiring un-interrupted service between AllStar nodes are encouraged to use permanent linking and/or statically define nodes in their rpt.conf [nodes] section. Additional information A MOP or Method of Procedure is in-place for this maintenance with clear go/no-go steps and a back-out plan should we find any insurmountable problems. An update will be posted to the app_rpt mailing list once this is completed. The AllStarLink app_rpt mailing list provides a discussion forum and access to the admin and development teams. We encourage all users to join and participate. http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users Status of this Notice This notice provides information for the community. Distribution of this notice is unlimited. Copyright Copyright (C) AllStarLink, Inc (2018). All Rights Reserved. - -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEaESdNosUjpjcN/JhYTmgYVLGkUAFAlttHpEACgkQYTmgYVLG kUDaOg/+Pv3u50uvv+3fNRP/Bof7MRKN/8w3MYTaA2Nj4F3PSNkuC1849S6pa6fN 2kzdF/X3Suo4uLizFoJf2rAuARMZw3i2uhb4pFvFqie0ZExYsPdgnoHM8Lu2b09l IyxK5gqT6evo3wdFkUZZftFjedcxxVth4ITDaoQwOkOfMXC+wstVyZ/7uzOLC62I PohtyOPHoSx2J+jBTV8rVOgIt6BciE40njg8LMJVVuKevepoaJ/tc4i2vA57BWFY 44LW7Dg1Lt2YMJciuITps+z+7WvV/4bFNJ2lnRnN+TmZY60GHWe6arouUUJP+rnV 5G5UiVLuWaq57Sa7e+824ZWDvcR9rEwlBQSrc2uxn82jyXjBNlPqx51qNsWe+FgY qxRCy1HewZIaQhEssNutHahn8rAuxy4khi7eKX6iKzuAhvL1mNpqpJk2h1AfC84x FunJI9FrLcwpc+aXqIE8jAoik0vRkbu9YHv+MaU9KLb0YtYisgR0t3glmNnMUsGc JOkFOWxGJyakxbGS9qRhulEwkFviC2ZFFkuCThAf7QHpSwQbPNMbkLBBTHtlZp32 A7pLGBXyq0/1B2PW4Lnj/PHP2xYnP9P/zLdlXJvSKyxYIPwl25MTofINYYmX3pGv kV/dXco8KF80d15bdBkaSUB/bIKxWthBdW7U7UNO0Gw0GBDmaE4= =qLTz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----