[IMC-Tech] Re: [Imc] Chambana.net back up...
David Young
dyoung at pobox.com
Mon May 8 11:00:31 CDT 2006
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:07:48AM -0500, dan blah wrote:
> Hey all,
> After a good day of fun wrestling with the server and our new ISP
> (Insight Broadband) everything is back up and running. It seems Insight
> likes to take weekends off as well.
>
> Initially the problems started when Insight apparently changed DHCP
> servers making requests from our server incompatible with our DHCP
> client (unknowingly to us until discovered later yesterday night by
> Zach). Earlier in the night we decided to just set static IP
> information which worked early in the evening and we all went back to
> doing what we were doing. I fell asleep, Insight decided it didn't like
> our solution and we lost connectivity again. With our new firewall
> working, Zach jumped back on to the chambana.net server and figured out
> the previously stated issue about the new DHCP server and we were
> back... with a new IP that our mail relay server didn't like. So while
> I was sleeping everything was good except for the changes i needed to
> make on the mail relay. As you are reading this I woke up and made
> those changes.
>
> Sorry again for the downtime. Note that we have been given a date of
> May 9th (tomorrow) for expected downtime. Insight is doing a major
> server upgrade as well as changing their ISP on that day.
I guess I'm preaching to the choir, but it doesn't sound like Insight
offers a real business-class service.
Their mealy-mouthed description of their IP number
offerings---"persistent" and "sticky"---does not inspire a lot of
confidence.
Dave
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David Young OJC Technologies
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