Update on the network situation

[aithne]

Yep, things are pretty much fucked. I discovered last night that the transistion instructions that my ISP sent me are incomplete. My DSL modem is evidently in a state of utter denial about the world and isn't responding on any of the IPs I was guessing it might be on, and I'm not entirely certian that it even *has* a telnet interface. (I mean, it must. But I've never used it.)

I'm calling this morning to cancel my DSL, and then to sign up for cable. Creative and all of the services it has on it is down for the duration; I need to talk to Bryan about when I might be able to get the machine down to his house, but we're looking at probably a week of downtime total. If you need to email me, do so at my gmail address. (Same username as my regular email address at gmail.com.) And I'm not going to have net access in the evenings until the cable gets installed.

(And I just finished a new chapter last night, and nobody can read it. Sigh.)

I turned off both of the servers upstairs this morning. Wow. So quiet.

I plan to move the one server and recycle the rest at RE-PC unless anyone has a use for about four former Boeing Surplus machines. And there will be space in my server closet, once more.

Comments

[zenspider.livejournal.com]

1) Now would be a good time to change your registration information and make omni your primary nameserver, with your machine second. Sounds backwards, but if you set up omni AS a secondary and your AS a primary, then the second your machine comes up omni will slurp and you'll be up.

2) Let me know when you are going to REPC please? I have a bunch of puter stuff I'll never be able to get ride of and you have good trunk space / a back seat.

[silenceleigh.livejournal.com]

I'll need information about what Omni's name servers are. And I'll need to ask Bryan about what the IP of the Creative will be.

And I can do that, no problem. It won't be this weekend, but probably next.

[zenspider.livejournal.com]

You only need the former right now which you can get via 'whois zenspider.com'.

[3smallishmagi.livejournal.com]

Yuck, that sounds like a mess. I'd be looking to move too. Double check though that the cable package you're signing up for lets you run servers. Many won't let you. What's the cable package you're thinking of?

[silenceleigh.livejournal.com]

It doesn't, but that's why I'm going to be keeping the server at Bryan's house. I have one choice for cable packages, and that's it, so I went with that one. :)

[breklor.livejournal.com]

Please to tell more about the four Boeing surplus machines? :)

My roommate has a very crappy computer, and I assume I will be seeing you at the Gaia Consort gig next Friday... :)

[silenceleigh.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I think they're all 486 machines, maybe a P1 in there. None of them will run a Windows OS, I dion't think. They're not half bad for lightweight servers, though.

[breklor.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, okay, thanks though :)