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

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

> From: wayne <wa...@ny...>
> To: pro...@so...
> Subject: [proxyTools-users] updating localProxy with proxy test results (was:Re: dead proxies)
> Date: 9 Feb 2003 01:40:58 -0000
> 
> > 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

Arghh!
This should have been:
perl mergeHosts.pl statProxy.2003.2.9.1.out 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).
> 
> --
> wa...@ny...
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