[wxqc] Server recommendations, Again!

[Russell.B.Chadwick at noaa.gov]

The recommendations that Gerry gives below are condensed and linked from
the upper right column of most of the main pages on www.wxqa.com under
the title of "APRS Servers to Use".

Russ

----- Original Message -----
From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2008 4:46 pm
Subject: [wxqc] Server recommendations, Again!

> Folks,
> 
> We're not seeing much traction in moving from the APRS servers to 
> the 
> CWOP-dedicated servers.  I want to encourage everyone with a CW or 
> DW id 
> to change their server info to point to cwop.aprs.net using ports 
> 23 or 
> 14580.  The three servers in that round-robin DNS rotation are 
> dedicated 
> to CWOP use, and CWOP CW/DW weather information will not go to the 
> APRS-IS core servers.  It WILL be harvested by FindU and WILL get 
> to MADIS.
> 
> There will be a new domain, cwopwx.org, that will also have the 
> same 
> server addresses soon.  This is an attempt to get CWOP more 
> autonomy in 
> the future.
> 
> If you're not an Amateur Radio operator, please change your server 
> destination to cwop.aprs.net.  The servers and code have been tuned 
> to 
> perform CWOP data aggregation and collection only, rather than the 
> full 
> gamut of functions required on the APRS-IS.  These are *our* 
> servers and 
> making a migration to them will help us all in the long run.
> 
> For what it's worth, I've got the CWOP1.tamu.edu (CWOP-1) and 
> aprs.tamu.edu (first.aprs.net) servers as well as managing the 
> servers 
> for firenet.us and the CWOP.tamu.edu aggregation server.  I also am 
> the 
> culprit if there are problems with CWOP-2 and CWOP-3, as I make 
> most of 
> the changes on them so that their sysops are not overburdened with 
> additional tasks.
> 
> We thank the Tier2 folks for their support, as well as the APRS-IS 
> Core 
> sys ops.  We need to make this transition to two separate server 
> pools 
> and services, though, for some good technical reasons.
> 
> Gerry
> -- 
> Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu
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