[atlas]Down/Up fail

It appears to be back up now, so perhaps it's just a lag issue.
--Richard


On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:50 AM, Robert Kisteleki wrote:

> On 2011.02.16. 7:44, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>> 
>> I've just been re-engineering my home network to give probe 394 more
>> stable access.
>> 
>> It seems that the ATLAS web site still reports it as "down" even though
>> it's clearly reporting information to the central system (since the RRD
>> graphs are updated).
>> 
>> Huh?
>> 
>> --Richard
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Your probe is/was behind (at least) two levels of NAT, so anything is
> possible :-)
> 
> More seriously: our controller in LA, which is responsible for your probe,
> got disconnected around midnight CET, thus it couldn't report connections
> from probes; this is why your probe was reported as "down". We reconnected
> it some minutes ago, so these buffered messages could finally go through.
> 
> The reason you probe could still report measurement data to the system is
> entirely different. We are in the middle of an internal structural change,
> which allows us to report measurement data on a separate, more scalable
> channel. Our controller in LA was the first one to be switched to this
> method (just yesterday!).
> 
> We are migrating other (EU) controllers to this new method in the coming
> days. Also, we plan to use this method for more messages in the future,
> making the system more resilient against these disconnection hickups.
> 
> Hope that clarifies!
> 
> Robert
>