FlightSim Real World Weather Service
As many of you know, Flight Simulator provides real world weather functionality. That is, FlightSim can connect to a service (kindly hosted by the Zone), download the current state of the weather around the world and import that into the sim.
This weekend that service has, to put it mildly, been up and down quite a bit - as evidenced by this thread over on AVSim.
The problem was caused by some network issues at the data center that hosts the service. A router was apparently doing something very odd. This has now been fixed (or rather, I’m told that it has been fixed…)
Anyhow, you can all stop calling our support guys about this problem now - hehe - they’ve been a bit overloaded (to put it mildly) by people calling to report it. The interesting part is that we have a system setup to monitor the service and nag us incessantly when there’s an issue - the reason the team didn’t get notified (I think) is that the monitoring is on our internal network, so it can’t see an issue when it’s related to external access. We need to fix that…
So, apologies. Normal service is now resumed…
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