[wxqc] Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade

Sun Mar 9 14:23:43 CDT 2008

Ed,

Without getting my laptop behind your router and doing some forensics, 
it'd be hard to determine where the problem lies.  You might mention 
what flavor, and SP of the operating system you're using as we've seen 
several flavors of Windows cause some problems.  XP after SP2 should be 
good as should (heaven help me!) Vista.  Win9x is questionable for 
handling DNS rotations correctly.  WinME is right out.  Mac and the *nix 
software should handle it correctly.

Most routers don't have enough memory to cache a lot of DNS lookups, so 
that shouldn't be a problem.  The exceptions tend to say "Cisco" on them 
and are designed for ISP use.  Some ISPs do attempt to limit such 
lookups and do funny things to their bind installations either out of 
ignorance or an intent to over-manage.  There's little you could do save 
point do an outside, non-caching DNS for all lookups.

For now, I suspect we'll call it "good" as you're reporting and reliably 
hitting servers and getting your data into the system.

I want to echo my public congratulations to Philip on the Environmental 
Hero award.  He's well-deserving of it.

gerry

ed at gilbertazwx.com wrote:
> Gerry,
> 
> I had noticed that I was almost always posting to cwop2 also. On a rare
> moment it would use cwop3 but then go right back to cwop2. My
> Weatherlink 5.8.0 is configured to upload to cwop.aprs.net:15480 every
> 10 minutes with an offset of 8. This was also the case before I upgraded
> from 5.7.1 to 5.8.0. When the recommendation came out in January to
> switch over from rotate.aprs.net to cwop.aprs.net I was almost
> exclusively posting to cwop2 even though my settings pointed to
> cwop.aprs.net. I have noticed that after upgrading I seem to post to
> cwop3 sometimes (maybe 2% of the time) which is more often than before.
> 
> I was especially reading the posts last few months when folks were
> talking about the configurations so I wasn't sure if the lack of
> rotation was due to my router or cable modem holding onto DNS info.
> Oddly enough I continue to go back to cwop2 even after resetting the
> entire network (modem, router, pc...). Any thoughts on this issue would
> be welcomed.
> 
> I would also like to thank you(and all the others; and congrats to
> Philip Gladstone on his honors)for all of your support. It is very
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ed Taggard
> CWOP6490 (CWOP)
> KAZGILBE7 (Weather Underground)
> www.gilbertazwx.com
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [wxqc] Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade
> From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
> Date: Sat, March 08, 2008 10:27 pm
> To: ed at gilbertazwx.com
> 
> Ed,
> 
> Can you please check your config and tell me if you are using 
> cwop.aprs.net or something else for your server(s)? You seem to always 
> be on cwop2 instead of rotating randomly, as we expect.
> 
> Thanks,
> gerry
> 
> ed at gilbertazwx.com wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> I upgraded to WeatherLink 5.8.0 two weeks ago myself. After installing 
>> it to the default install location (c:\program files\weatherlink) I then 
>> went to File>Open Station and navigated to where my original install was 
>> located (c:\weatherlink) and selected the original station. One note 
>> though, to continue to upload to Weather Underground, I had to manually 
>> create a folder in the new path called Expansion_Modules (c:\program 
>> files\weatherlink\Expansion_Modules) and then downloaded the dll 
>> (http://www.wunderground.com/windowsinstall/WuiWlink_1.dll) into it. 
>> Everything has worked fine since the upgrade.
>>
>> Ed Taggard
>> CW6490 (CWOP)
>> KAZGILBE7 (Weather Underground)
>> <http://www.gilbertazwx.com>www.gilbertazwx.com <http://www.gilbertazwx.com>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [wxqc] Weatherlink 5.8.0 Upgrade
>> From: John James <jjames at jameshillfarm.com>
>> Date: Sat, March 08, 2008 6:53 pm
>> To: wxqc at lists.gladstonefamily.net
>>
>> I thought I would wait things out to see if there were issues wrt
>> 5.8, and finally decided to install today. I notice the software now
>> wants to install in a different location (the more traditional
>> location under Program Files instead of their own top level
>> directory). They don't pull any data over from elsewhere, which seems
>> to include all the configuration data. Have people just gone ahead
>> and installed over the top of the existing directory and had things
>> work alright? Thanks.
>>
>> //John
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> CW4661, CW4663
>> Web: <http://www.jameshillfarm.com/>
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