[proxyTools-users] updating localProxy with proxy test results (was:Re: dead proxies)

[wayne <wa...@ny...>]

> From: Moussa
> Subject: dead proxies
> To: wayne <wa...@ny...>

CC: pro...@so...

> Hey Wayne
> how I can remove dead proxies from hots.xml using statproxy and mergehosts?

Do I need to say it again? You don't!!!!
Use your own config file to disable them. The config file overrides 
everything else. 

I've given the command lines for statProxy and mergeHosts to do 
this many times, but here we go again. I assume your list of 'dead' 
proxies is in so.txt.

0) If you don't have a personal config file already:
copy config-UAE-dialup.xml config-mbat.xml

1)
perl statProxy.pl -t all:-18 -l so.txt
will test them and write the results to a file like 
statProxy.2003.2.9.1.out.

2)
perl mergeHosts.pl config-mbat.xml
will update your config file with these test results.

Repeat 1) and 2) every day for a few days, and after several days, 
the proxies will become disabled in the config file. This is the 
way it's supposed to work, because proxies are up and down like 
yoyos and disabling them means LP will never use them again.

If you are *really* sure those proxies won't be coming back (and 
how could you *ever* be sure of this?), just repeat step 2) several 
times immediately, and they will get disabled too.

3) send these proxies to me. I will test them, and they will then 
(slowly) disappear from the distributed hosts.xml.

And remember that you don't really need to do any of this at all. 
LP learns to avoid them when it's running (transparently to the 
user if the internal tests have been enabled).

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