Mokka mit Schlag, The Cafes, www.elharo.com, and beand.com are all restored to service after Wednesday night’s network outage. Please holler if you notice any problems. There may yet be a few glitches.<\/p>\n
I still don’t know exactly what went wrong. I do know that at the time the network went down I had Warcraft, VOIP, BitTorrent and this server running simultaneously. However that’s not unusual. Based on what it took to eventually fix this, the mostly likely scenario is that Speakeasy\/Covad failed. At one point I thought my internal router from D-Link had failed. I did buy a new Linksys router to replace it (A WRT54G. I wasn’t able to find a 54GL on short notice. :-( ). However installing the new router did not fix the problem. Speakeasy has shipped me a new DSL modem, but that has not yet arrived. What finally fixed the problem was Speakeasy asking Covad to do a “manual rebuild of the circuit”. Previously Speakeasy had done a “rebuild and reprovision” from their end, but apparently Covad can do something Speakeasy can’t. Next time I’ll know to ask for a manual rebuild if the initial rebuild fails. Not that I have any clue what any of this means. However it does seem undiagnosable apart from just doing it. The first two SpeakEasy reps I went through did not suggest the manual rebuild.
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Once the circuit was back up yesterday morning (total outage: about 12 hours), I still had to reconfigure the web server with the new router info. I didn’t get around to that till this morning. It’s a pain because the server normally runs headless. That meant swapping out various cables, keyboards, and monitors from other systems just so I could see into the server enough to bring it up. Normally I administer it remotely with ssh, httpd, and VNC but one of that works when the server can’t find the router. <\/p>\n
I’m going to have to play with this configuration further, since the current setup may not survive and IP address reassignment. It would be nice if the Linksys router could map a service to a dynamically assigned IP so I could use full DHCP. After all, it doles out the IPs to the local boxes so it should know which one has which address. However it’s not quite that smart. <\/p>\n
Furthermore, for reasons I have not yet determined, the HTTPD server did not come up automatically when the server rebooted. I had to start it manually. Memo to self: “sudo apachectl start” launches Apple’s bundled Apache 1.3 server. You want “sudo \/usr\/httpd\/apachectl start”. At least PHP seems to have launched itself automatically with the server. I never was able to make Tomcat do that. <\/p>\n
In any case, this is the third outage from Speakeasy in less than a month. In all three cases I had to alert them of the problem. Speakeasy was never perfect, but this is an order of magnitude jump in service problems. I knew the Best Buy acquisition would come to no good. Anyone have a solid ISP they can recommend? 1 Mbps+ bandwidth in both directions, static IPs, network neutrality, and no restrictions on the apps I can run. I can afford up to $200 a month for reliable<\/em> service. Suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mokka mit Schlag, The Cafes, www.elharo.com, and beand.com are all restored to service after Wednesday night’s network outage. Please holler if you notice any problems. There may yet be a few glitches. I still don’t know exactly what went wrong. I do know that at the time the network went down I had Warcraft, VOIP, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}