[HECnet] ROOSTA routing problem

On 26 Dec 2011, at 14:58, Bob Armstrong wrote: b) Connect ROOSTA to HECnet via STAR69. Drop the LEGATO link (as you said, it's pointless). c) Have ROOSTA continue to be an area router, and make sure ROOSTA have a link to STAR69, and then any other areas we care to. This isn't really any different than "b", is it? The point is still that ROOSTA can't be in area 6 unless it's connected to STAR69. STAR69 is my machine, if there is an issue with the node database it's my fault. Someone could have e-mailed and asked me to update the node DB on it, it takes less than a minute :\ STAR69 also went down briefly this afternoon. You may have suffered a loss of area routing on Area 6 as a result. I apologise, I'd have avoided it if at all possible but it's my only remaining BSD machine and I needed to pull my PDP-11 emulator files off the BSD disk out of COWBOX's host machine that died. If there is no harm in having 2 Area Routers I strongly recommend Chrissie has one too as for the moment I can't rely on STAR69:: being up 100% of the time. It doesn't auto-restart after a power outage and also the VAX emulator is hand booted so even if I remember to turn it on I might forget to VAX-boot. Similarly, although my LINUX box (HP Microserver) is self-rebooting the bridge is also hand initialised. So basically if I have a power outage at any time you will likely lose everything on my circuit for 12 hours... or until I remember it's off which last time was a couple of weeks :\ Again, I'm sorry if me dicking about caused any issues, but I'm having fun over here :D -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.