AW: AW: AW: [IRCServices] Backup databases?

[Josh]

On 14 Nov 2001, at 7:58, Duane Groth wrote:

Its easier having 1 set of services on a really stable box that never 
goes down.. but thats only possible if you only have a few or just 
yourself knowing the ip to the hub and keep it that way by only 
adding c/n's to a couple other hubs and never link client servers 
directly to it. we have this setup on my net and it works well.

(services hub ircd:)
Server Up 169 days, 11:23:14

> Hello Georges,
> 
>   As I said originally, I would like to see this feature purely for a
>   redundancy point of view, as I have a reasonably setup IRC network,
>   the DNS probes the IRC servers and removes dead server
>   automatically, I have the IRC servers each setup with multiple hubs,
>   so in the event of any one hub dying there is redundancy to keep the
>   network together, however I am unable to think of a suitable way of
>   making services redundant, and in the event of failure of the
>   primary server that it's linking into the network with, for whatever
>   reason, a secondary will kick in, with read only, so that people can
>   authenticate, but not change details, this is the only single point
>   of failure on my network that requires manual intervention.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Duane                            mailto:duane at groth.net
> 
> Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 7:45:01 AM, you wrote:
> 
> GB> I like the idea of managing nicks through the browser, which is very much
> GB> more intuitive for many users who have no knowledge about IRC and only know
> GB> that they can type text into their client.
> GB> It is really intresting for very small networks who pretend to have a
> GB> 'community'. People will be able to share much more information when
> GB> registering their nick on the web. This registration can be passed on to
> GB> nickserv who uses the same information than in the Userinfo Database on the
> GB> web.
> GB> People will even be able to change their IRC-Settings in their browser.
> 
> GB> It took me quite a number of hours to hack something like this into services
> GB> though, so I would appreciate if there was a possibility (i.e. interface) to
> GB> re-organise all this and make it a little more structured.
> 
> GB> Georges
> 
> GB> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> GB> Von: ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net
> GB> [mailto:ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net]Im Auftrag von Craig McLure
> GB> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. November 2001 21:28
> GB> An: ircservices at ircservices.za.net
> GB> Betreff: RE: AW: AW: [IRCServices] Backup databases?
> 
> 
> GB> Lol..
> GB> MySQL, does that mean ppl will be able to reg nicks and manage nicks in
> GB> their web browser?
> GB> Interesting concept :P
> GB> But wouldn't that mean pw encryption?
> 
> GB> -----Original Message-----
> GB> From: ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net
> GB> [mailto:ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net] On Behalf Of Duane Groth
> GB> Sent: 13 November 2001 20:08
> GB> To: ircservices at ircservices.za.net
> GB> Subject: Re: AW: AW: [IRCServices] Backup databases?
> 
> GB> Hello,
> 
> GB>   No, but have the option of choosing MySQL for database, or using
> GB>   it's own flat file format, the side benefit from this would be easier
> GB>   web interfaces with PHP and the like, this unlike some simple
> GB>   scripting has to be done in services itself. You should be using scp
> GB> or
> GB>   similar for the remote archiving anyway, if you employ RSA/DSA keys
> GB>   it's 1000x more secure, not to mention easier to script, hell you
> GB>   can even setup your remote script to trigger tar/bzip, then the next
> GB>   line to scp it off, so that you don't need to have 2 cron processes
> GB>   going.
> 
> GB> --
> GB> Best regards,
> GB>  Duane                            mailto:duane at groth.net
> 
> GB> Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 6:58:11 AM, you wrote:
> 
> GB>> Re,
> 
> GB>> well, MySQL support is nice, but not really suitable for everybody
> GB> (e.g.
> GB>> users that don't have a MySQL account). The FTP-Upload thing would
> GB> probably
> GB>> do the job for most people.
> 
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