Re: Server out?

[John E H. <jh...@ti...>]

Marc G. Fournier wrote at 17:34 -0300 on Oct 24, 2006:
 > 'k, just curious here, but is there any sync'age between these two
 > servers?  Or are you risking reporting exclusively to one, and
 > checking against the other? :(

I don't think so.  As I understand, Milton just put up a second
independent server since the other "official" one kept timing out.
The code to do any such syncing is vaporware as far as I know.

That said, I currently report to both and check both (and pick the max
score).


 > One thought I had when I saw this patch was somehow extending the
 > Pyzor server(s) to broadcast reports between each other, but that
 > woudl require someone with Python abilities to do ... basically,
 > when I report to 82.94.255.100, it then has its own internal list
 > of servers that it reports to ... the communication would have to
 > be done in such a way that those servers then don't go out an
 > *re-broadcast' it again, but that should just be a matter of using
 > the servers own internal server list to know that the report came
 > *from* another server instead of from a client ...
 > 
 > Thoughts?  I'd be willing to put up a well connected server to act
 > as one leg of this if someone had the skills to design/develop such
 > an extension ...

There's been some discussion over the years about updating pyzor to
overcome problems such as these (in addition to making the server side
more robust, other improvements include revoking, trust, and others
that I can't think of at the moment).  But currently pyzor is not
razor (although it may have originally been intended to be that).