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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It seems this was due to the WXSVR server being offline for a period of time (around 2-3 weeks) with beacons queued, but then cancellations as well (hence the unusual coordinates which are in fact deletion of objects).
The scripts that fetch data from the sources such as CFA/RFS/TFS/BOM go into a database, then the wxsvr/wxbot-au components transmit the data out. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I've cleared the cancellation beacons from the database which is the cause of this steady stream of data and backlog.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I will be making some modifications to wxsvr/wxbot-au to ensure this doesn't happen again by not sending out overdue cancellation beacons.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Sorry for the situation everyone, it is not good enough and sorry for not seeing this post until this afternoon, again, poor on my behalf.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I have been active on this list but route all the mails to a mailbox. An email to me directly may have triggered a more responsive reply - I have also added details to the website, an oversight on my behalf when setting
this up originally.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">73's,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Matty</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> OZAPRS <ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au> on behalf of Tony Hunt <wavetel@internode.on.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 3 May 2018 8:31:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ozaprs@aprs.net.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OZAPRS] BOM Feed gone out of control</font>
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<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">Yes somethings is wrong. Theres basically a continual stream of jibber comming out of the server now. Its very delayed with its time stamps.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">I first noticed this last night arounf 1800 local time as the iGate was continually transmitting here with excessive traffic. I only gate relavant South Australian WX traffic here to RF and thats been
the case for years now.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">I am logged into first.aprs.net.au currently with
<font face="Times New Roman">e/WXSVR-AU </font></font><font face="Arial">amongst other things. If I single out the WX feed then it consists of an almost constant stream off the internet of about 1kb/s on average. This is everything for the whole country in
WX data. I dont beleive historically it was anything like this. It was basically much quieter.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">The time stamps are slowly advancing but from what I can see its currently about 8Hrs behind. Last nights data was irrelavant and incorrect in that in SA we had Current road WX alerts, Strong wind Warnings
and Sheep grazier alerts according to BOMs web site. What the feed was showing on APRS was all these things in a cancelled state repeatedly and constantly.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">It appears that the WX feed is just overloaded and Buffered and attempting to play catch up but in reality I think its failing and just dumping it all to the server at a rate slow enough that it may
never clear the buffer.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">Another curiosity is something observed here
<a href="http://second.aprs.net.au:14501/">http://second.aprs.net.au:14501/</a> where the callsign WXSVR-AU is logged into the Tier 2 server from IP 59.167.198.98</font></span></div>
<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">This has been logged in since about 1800 local time last night (when I first observed the excess traffic) and is watching amongst other things its own feed from WXSVR-AU . The filter is
<font face="Times New Roman">b/WXBOT-AU g/WXBOT-AU b/WXSVR-AU g/WXSVR-AU g/VK3MJM-15 b/VK3MJM-15</font></font></span></div>
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<div><span class="x_629150622-02052018"><font face="Arial">So what is this WXBOT-AU software package doing watching its own callsign and feed ? Its showing a lot of RX packets and a lot of Duplicate packets for something thats only been logged in for less than
15 hrs.</font></span></div>
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