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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Started conversation Jul 8, 2003
Hi there, y'all.
As reported here:
F94020?thread=293621&post=3727810#p3727524
SEF is having problems posting to h2g2 threads or editing h2g2 pages, although she can see the pages and threads okay. And she can post on other DNA sites okay, as seen by the posts on the hub. Peta suggested that she post here, but given that the problem is that she *can't* post, and by the time she can post, the problem won't be a problem any longer (albeit still a curious bug), I figured one of us should probably post something here instead.
Most of the interesting details are in the hub thread linked to above.
Funky site-specific exclusions going on
Jim Lynn Posted Jul 8, 2003
There's absolutely nothing in the site code which differs in the way posting or editing works. They *all* use *exactly* the same codepath. The only possible differences are if users happen to be restricted or premoderated, and the messages in these cases make it clear what's happening.
It sounds more like one of these stupid coincidences - if the whole site is flaky for you, it can very easily seem as if posting to one or other site is better or worse. Trust me, the site hasn't changed at all in the last few days as far as I know, and if it had, it would be affecting everyone equally.
Funky site-specific exclusions going on
Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Jul 8, 2003
The rotation stops at the /dna/ part of the path? If it went further, could it be that it's favouring different servers for /dna/h2g2/ and /dna/hub/? I know that one server seemed to be down today as was favoured by one of the main rotation proxies, as I tried some direct address for the proxes.
spelugx
Funky site-specific exclusions going on
Jim Lynn Posted Jul 8, 2003
The rotation stops as soon as you get an IP address (although the plan is to introduce random server selection under /dna soon to more usefully balance the load, but that hasn't happened yet). Once your browser has an address for www.bbc.co.uk you'll get the same physical machine until you close your browser or it decides to do a DNS query again.
Funky site-specific exclusions going on
Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Jul 9, 2003
I mean the selection of one of the XSLT processing servers by the BBC passthrough-proxies, or do you mean that each proxy targets just one DNA server?
spelugx
Funky site-specific exclusions going on
Jim Lynn Posted Jul 9, 2003
Currently, each proxy server is tied to the same DNA server, but a plan exists to try out random selection of DNA servers to more evenly balance load.
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