Bricksync issues after newest release

Randyipp

Not sure if anyone else is having issues but lately if bricklink API goes down at all bricksync says it going to re-try but never actually connects. Happened today as well as after the 4 hour maintenance the other day. The only fix is to close and re-open bricksync.

BrickItOn

Same here....

brickrepository

I'm not seeing this issue and I am using an older version of BrickSync, so it might be that a bug was introduced in the latest version.

Captain.M

I have noticed this a few times as well. Seems to be ever since BL had that 4 or 5 hour down time for maintenance recently. At first I figured it might be because I had the older Bricksync so I updated it and restarted. It work ok after that, but I've since noticed it happen a few more times in the last week. It connects to BO ok, just gives an error for BL. A quick restart seems to sort it.

Randyipp

OK, I am going to ask for a registration code for the older version, I don't want to have to babysit this instance of bricksync. I fear now that it is free development may have come to an end by the original author due to a lack of time.

Stragus

That is unexpected...

When you say a previous version worked fine, was that 1.6.9 or 1.7.0? On Windows, between 1.6.9 and 1.7.0, I switched from a Posix threads library to native threads. There was very few changes with 1.7.1, besides updating the OpenSSL dependency and removing registration limitations.

Feel free to throw more information so I can try to guess what's going on!

Randyipp

11-28
05:55:25 WARNING: Failed to connect to server, trying again shortly...
05:55:25 ERROR: Too many connection errors, giving up.
05:57:22 INFO: Fetching the BrickOwl Order List...

lots of similar errors, can connect to BO the whole time but not BL.

16:18:43 INFO: Updating BrickLink inventory, 0 lots to create, 2 lots to update.
16:18:43 WARNING: BrickLink update did not complete successfully!
16:18:43 INFO: BrickLink flagged MUST_SYNC for deep synchronization.

19:16:03 INFO: Fetching the BrickLink Order List...
19:17:06 WARNING: Failed to connect to server, trying again shortly...
19:17:06 ERROR: Too many connection errors, giving up.
19:17:06 INFO: BrickLink is flagged MUST_SYNC for deep synchronization in 1737 seconds.

Closed and reopened, connected right away. I can provide any logs needed.
Issue not reported with 1.6.9 This was 1.7.1

DeichBricks

I've experienced the same problems as well (it happened two times last week). I've recently switched from version 1.6.9 to 1.7.1 running it on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server.

Randyipp

Its bricklink not bricksync... Grrr

11-19
21:33:31 LOG: Resolved api.bricklink.com as 34.198.65.76
21:33:31 LOG: Resolved www.bricklink.com as 52.54.219.19
11-21
18:01:26 LOG: Resolved api.bricklink.com as 3.209.39.225
18:01:26 LOG: Resolved www.bricklink.com as 54.165.89.221
11-28
19:19:30 LOG: Resolved api.bricklink.com as 34.192.118.49
19:19:30 LOG: Resolved www.bricklink.com as 3.232.178.46

Randyipp

Hmm, maybe not the issue, went back to 11-10 and that is different as well and I didn't have an issue.

Stragus

Oh I see, so the IPs keep changing. And BrickSync resolves the IP addresses just once, when started, then remember them forever. That is the problem.

I have seen requests for registration keys for previous versions, so here's the compiled win64 program to generate registration keys matching registration codes:
http://www.bricksync.net/rsabscrypt.exe
(It is and was included in the source package, with the asymmetric encryption key plainly visible)

Once downloaded, it can be used from the command line/terminal (cmd.exe) as such:
rsabscrypt.exe "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef"
where "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef" would be the actual registration code (what appears when typing "register" in BrickSync). Running the program will print something like:

registrationkey = "0894f044ce21cbf703c0bd54eb879c127a69621407cb1aeaecbf5ac685511
9dbb9a826ef07bb0927465b6212cb2bdd079b2db9124da7998dd2f2c9c277d25ee8089c6380cbf26
8d9dfb2fe3f6bb4f126434233c5fb5ba4bff492eabde1afd3b2ff36eabc78baca47e32822e2461a9
d7bf91b890a5240c93221d06708eeb9f495";

which can be copied to the BrickSync configuration file, the rest of the output isn't relevant (encryption sanity checks).

I think copy/paste from a terminal isn't very convenient on Windows, so you can also do:
rsabscrypt.exe "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef" > zzz.txt
And the text output will be stored in the file zzz.txt

For those on Linux/OSX, you can produce the "rsabscrypt" executable with these commands while in the directory of the unpacked source code:
gcc -std=gnu99 -m64 cpuconf.c cpuinfo.c -O2 -s -o cpuconf
./cpuconf -h
gcc rsabscrypt.c rsabn.c rand.c cc.c ccstr.c bn128.c bn192.c bn256.c bn512.c bn1024.c bnstdio.c -s -O2 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -msse2 -msse3 -o rsabscrypt -lm -Wall

brickrepository

Thanks for that @Stragus! I've been wanting to move BrickSync to another server and this will come in handy (although I could also just get the newest version...).