Drones are taking a rest

[Keith Smith]

There's an issue I need to resolve this weekend that's causing controllers to have trouble staying connected to the network. The drones aren't causing the problem, but there's a good chance they're making it worse. I'm going to leave them offline for a little while until I can resolve this issue, hopefully this weekend.

Keith

[Richard Jenkins]

Drop me a mail on what message they are receiving on disconnection, if any. I have an idea it might be some of the same thing we see at times.

Richard

[Keith Smith]

Thx RJ, but this is a very different architecture to FSD.

I know what needs to be changed, it is a result of the authentication and logging system that was added late in the game.

Keith

[Daddy O]

Sorry RJ, these aren't the drones you are looking for.

[Keith Smith]

The architectural changes were completed this evening and tested to the extent possible in a standalone environment. The change will be rolled out tomorrow morning before the service opens and will be testing with a few live aircraft and controllers.

This was a fairly major change in the internal message processing flows. It is quite possible that some subtle errors might happen as a result of this, under some rare (or not so rare circumstances). I'll post any known issues as they arise.

If system stability is compromised, I will revert to the current build of the server.

[lwilliams]

That was REALLY, REALLY bad, Daddy O........lol

[Keith Smith]

We were able to deploy and test late last night with several controllers, one live plane and a few controllers. All appears to be well.

Drones are back.

[Brandon Grchan]

That was REALLY, REALLY bad, Daddy O........lol

Not a star wars fan?

I dunno, maybe I'm the only loser who got that reference

[Steve Caffey]

That was REALLY, REALLY bad, Daddy O........lol

Not a star wars fan?

I dunno, maybe I'm the only loser who got that reference

I got it too, don't feel bad.

[Richard Jenkins]

Thx RJ, but this is a very different architecture to FSD.

I know what needs to be changed, it is a result of the authentication and logging system that was added late in the game.

Keith

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