PBW Down? - Back up!

[tesco samoa]

p.s. what are you going to do with all those scott baio dolls , alf dolls and smurfs...

Yard sales only go so far.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Asmala:
I hope the autoprocessing is off. Otherwise I could miss a turn

It's not now, but I will turn it off when I get home. If your turn was due to run in the Last few hours you missed it. But you can get your game owner to reset it. I am sure we am going to be bombarded with such requests this weekend.

Geoschmo

EDIT: And Tesco, I told you for the Last time. I don't care how much you whine, you CANNOT have my Joanie loves Chachi lunch box!!!!

[ August 01, 2003, 20:12: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[tbontob]

Hey Geoschmo!

What does happen when PBW is "down" and then is "up"?

Are all the games automatically put on ALPU?

And if so, what happens after that?

Specific questions which I have are:

1) Is the time reset?

2) Does it stay on ALPU till the Last player submits his turn or until a certain time has elapsed whichever comes first?

3) When is the game taken off ALPU?

4) Does the game host have an input on when the game is taken off ALPU? If so, what can he do?

Hoping you can shed some light on this. As I am completely in the dark.

[geoschmo]

If the server itself goes down the turns will not run. However, right now the server is up and running fine blissfully unaware that no one can reach it to upload their turns because of the ISP problems. So it's has been processing any games set to fully automatic turns that expired today during the tiem when you could not reach the website. Any games set to ALPU are fine as they will run as normal and not process until everyone is able to get their turn in.

Once I get home I can get on the server and turn off the automatic processing. What this will do is cause all games that are set to Fully Automatic to function exactly like a game that is set to ALPU. Once the website is accessible again if everybody in the game uploads or emails in their turn the turn will process. But from the point when I am able to turn off auto proc no turns will process simply because of the turn timeout.

If your game processed today during the timeout you can talk to your game owner about setting the turn back. If he is saving the turn files he can do this himself. If he is not he will have to contact us to send him the files or set the turn back for him.

In a couple days barring no more problems I will turn the auto proc back on and things will be back to normal. This will give every one a chance to get caught up on their games before the start running in fully automatic mode.

The time on the server will not be changed. That is not necessary at all.

Geoschmo

[ August 01, 2003, 20:49: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[tbontob]

Thanx Geoschmo.

You have my vote for administrator extraordinaire.

[ August 01, 2003, 21:59: Message edited by: tbontob ]

[Merry Jolkar]

I, too, would like to re-iterate my thanks to Geoschmo for his tireless efforts.

And, I would like to suggest that people make a small contribution (or a large one!) via Paypal to offset his costs.

Geoshmo, I have tried to make an additional contribution but when I hit submit it doens't process. Has anyone else had this problem? Maybe it's my PC??

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Pax:
Dunno, but my firewall is moanign and *****ing about near-constant pings (most of 'em form one IP#) this morning.

And I can't open PBW, either. 8P

That wouldn't be a reserved address that maps to a router named Blackhole and located in Southern California would it?