Thank all who are involved to get this set up.  

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Michael A. Serowik

On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:40 PM, "Curt, WE7U" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> We have three Firenet servers now in geographically diverse locations.  Phil 
> Pacier set up round-robin DNS for us, which gives one address for connecting 
> into the entire Firenet system.  Thanks Phil!  VM's for Firenet-2 and -3 were 
> provided by Javier Henderson, thanks!
> 
> The one address which gets you into the system is:
> 
>    firenet.aprs2.net
> 
> One caveat:  Some portion of the Firenet object-injecting programs are 
> hard-coded to inject into one server:  If that one server is down you'll see 
> a subset of the Firenet objects until that server is back up.  This problem 
> should hopefully be addressed soon so injecting programs either use the 
> rotate address, or inject into multiple servers at once.
> 
>    Firenet-1 (OK), Admin: Gerry Creager, N5JXS
>    Firenet-2 (VA), Admin: Curt Mills, WE7U
>    Firenet-3 (CA), Admin: Curt Mills, WE7U
> 
> Ports which are common across all three servers are shown at these web pages:
> 
>    http://66.109.111.22:14501/detail   # Firenet-2
>    http://198.137.202.23:14501/detail  # Firenet-3
> 
> Stick to the common ports and you should be able to use the rotate address 
> and not care which server you're connected to.  Firenet-1 ("firenet.us") has 
> a few additional ports:  It is down again this morning though.
> 
> Weather alerts:  I reworked the weather alert scripts early this morning to 
> bypass the mail system (the mail system was down at the time).  A side-effect 
> of this work:  It should make it easier to port the scripts to Firenet-2 & 
> Firenet-3.  I may do that soon, then set them up to inject weather alerts 
> into multiple Firenet servers at once for robustness.  As long as they inject 
> packets within 30 seconds of each other, dupe-checking should remove 
> duplicates, and having one server go down won't affect the end-user.
> 
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U.        http://wetnet.net/~we7u
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