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Outbound Federation Fixed (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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Hey everyone, update on https://programming.dev/post/4613085

We did some changes in the database and it seems like outbound federation is working again. If you run into any more problems with it let us know.

Im pinning this post for around a day to let everyone know since we had the last post pinned for a bit

Any posts or comments made while it was broken still wont be federated but new ones should be. The instance essentially marked all other instances as dead which meant it thought it didn't have to send things to them

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[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

We appreciate you!!

[–] techwizrd@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the hard work!

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also to show thats its working heres this post on lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/post/7091281

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update dude! Cheers!

[–] silas@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Donut of appreciation attached below:

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[–] aport@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Haha now the rest of the fediverse is subject to my stupid comments!

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Glad you all are back!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago

Curiosity, was it not loading the custom config?

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It doesn't seem to be entirely fixed.

See: https://programming.dev/post/4742348 vs https://lemmy.world/post/7155747

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Everything seems to be fine in the database so not sure why that wouldnt propagate. Ill do some testing

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like that post was made when federation was broken (there was a small window 14 days ago when it went down again) so itll still have issues with federating comments. Recent posts and comments in the community seem to still be fine

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My reply from my programming.dev account to the person on Lemmy.world was made yesterday. It still hasn't propagated.

I had to reply using my Lemmy.world account. That reply federated to programming.dev. It looks like it's going in one direction only?

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah federation broke one way only when it was broken. Replies on broken posts from here wont propagate no matter when its done

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@snowe@programming.dev @Ategon@programming.dev Outgoing federation to reddthat.com seems to still be broken (or broken again?) - yesterday I had to search for a post there to make it show up, and I've just posted a comment that also isn't appearing.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah it broke again for a bit, getting that up rn. Seems to be that the instance isnt automatically marking things alive so after 3 days everything is marked as dead again

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it a problem their end or this end? I thought the issue was that the outgoing server (ours, in this case) wasn't federating things outwards because it mistakenly believed the recipient was dead.

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yeah its our end and thats why. Federation should be fixed now (things posted when down wont be federated still but new things will. Were setting up a cron job now to get this updated every day so it shouldnt be a problem any more)

After 3 days of no response lemmy considers things dead but the issue is is its not checking for a response

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ok, thanks for that, I think I just misunderstood which instance you were talking about when you said "the instance".

A related question you might be able to answer: if I search from the recipient's end and pull over a post that way, is it then federated out by that recipient instance? Or is it better to just delete and repost?

[–] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I am not sure. It might just be best to try. Federation should be very quick these days so if you're not seeing something in a minute or two then something is most likely wrong.