Hello andrew!

17 Mar 15, andrew clarke wrote to an Kai Richter:

(reliability)
 ac> It can be days (if not weeks) before you're reconnected to the echos
 ac> you were connected to previously,

R24 knows that issue well, our RC and Host had a power off goodbye without
warning. Nobody expected that. Off and gone, it took month to rebuild the
shattered remains.

 ac> Currently I get the bulk of my echomail from two other zone 3 nodes.
 ac> In the past it was more like five or six, some in zone 1. Each time a
 ac> node has gone offline I've had to reconfigure my echos, and I cringe
 ac> whenever I do it. I suspect I'll be leaving Fido once both of those
 ac> upstream links have gone permanently offline, because I'm really over
 ac> the idea of having to reestablish comms each time.

R24 discussed a virtual node system with remote administration as a central
distribution system. A team of nodes could coordinate that v-node and the
virtual machine could move easily to the next hoster, without much
re-configuration.

Kai

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