Hey Bazilla, your Queue down?
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Yes, it is down big time. The Q runs off a machine at home. I got up early this morning, and my DSL connection was dead. I spent half an hour on the phone with swbell tech, and they were clueless. This is my long day at school, and I had to head out and haven't been back for 15 hours. It will not be before tomorrow morning that I will have some free time to sort this mess up.
I hope to be back up and contributing wu's tomorrow, if swbell cooperates.
-Baz
postscript: I'm posting this from school. Once I leave for home, I'm off the net until I get this DSL connection problem fixed.
I hope to be back up and contributing wu's tomorrow, if swbell cooperates.
-Baz
postscript: I'm posting this from school. Once I leave for home, I'm off the net until I get this DSL connection problem fixed.
Well, I'm back up online here at home this morning, but the headache continues.
This is one of those situations where you do a half dozen things to fix a problem, and when it gets fixed you aren't sure which of the things you did actually fixed it.
But while I'm back up online, my IP address has changed! While I have "basic" DSL service in which I nominally have a dynamic IP address, it has been the same for over two years. All of a sudden I have problems, and now I have a new IP address. While they will not admit it, I suspect that the swbell had problems with the DHCP server that serves my node, and that my problems are related to this. A hypothetical scenario: the DHCP server goes down; my lease comes up for renewal, and instead of it renewing with the same IP address, I get nothing; finally the DHCP server comes back online, I reconnect for a new lease, and someone else now has my old ip, so I get a new one. Whatever, it means that all my seti service installs at school are pointing to the wrong ip address now, and will have to be reinstalled. What a pain!
Plus, in trying to rule out problems on my end, I removed my home lan and router, so now I have to rebuild that configuration all over. Well, if that goes smoothly, it should only be a few minutes of work. That will get home herd back in production. Getting the school herd back into full production will depend on how much time I can find over the next few days. Which may not be a lot. Next week looks good, so maybe I can get it done then.
-baz
This is one of those situations where you do a half dozen things to fix a problem, and when it gets fixed you aren't sure which of the things you did actually fixed it.
But while I'm back up online, my IP address has changed! While I have "basic" DSL service in which I nominally have a dynamic IP address, it has been the same for over two years. All of a sudden I have problems, and now I have a new IP address. While they will not admit it, I suspect that the swbell had problems with the DHCP server that serves my node, and that my problems are related to this. A hypothetical scenario: the DHCP server goes down; my lease comes up for renewal, and instead of it renewing with the same IP address, I get nothing; finally the DHCP server comes back online, I reconnect for a new lease, and someone else now has my old ip, so I get a new one. Whatever, it means that all my seti service installs at school are pointing to the wrong ip address now, and will have to be reinstalled. What a pain!
Plus, in trying to rule out problems on my end, I removed my home lan and router, so now I have to rebuild that configuration all over. Well, if that goes smoothly, it should only be a few minutes of work. That will get home herd back in production. Getting the school herd back into full production will depend on how much time I can find over the next few days. Which may not be a lot. Next week looks good, so maybe I can get it done then.
-baz
Crazee
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I had a problem with SWBell DHCP on Friday night and yes you are right they will never admit it. I had the tech on the phone I was in my router which was unable to get an IP from the DHCP. When I told him what it was showing he said "Maybe you need to reset your router" I said I already did. Then he said "Hmm your router is probably bad" I said "It's 1 month old because the last time you jerks told me I had a bad router I thought you might be right!" He said "Wow two bad routers that close together!"
I hung up!
I hung up!
Well, I've "flushed" the 5 WU's on my home lan, and have it back in order.
But I think fixing the ~100 computers at school for the new ip address is going to be a real pain.
-baz
But I think fixing the ~100 computers at school for the new ip address is going to be a real pain.
-baz
Confused
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Sorry to hear that Baz 
Have a look at DNS2GO, gives you an address such as myname.d2g.com or myname.dns2go.com, and will update whenever your IP address changes
I use it on my computer at home for my SetiQ (when the cable modem works, getting an engineer round tomorrow night, might have to replace the modem itself :frown: ) and you can set it to forward your domain to another IP address when your connection is down, such as OK, so that you can keep submitting WUs
ConfusedBW
Have a look at DNS2GO, gives you an address such as myname.d2g.com or myname.dns2go.com, and will update whenever your IP address changes
I use it on my computer at home for my SetiQ (when the cable modem works, getting an engineer round tomorrow night, might have to replace the modem itself :frown: ) and you can set it to forward your domain to another IP address when your connection is down, such as OK, so that you can keep submitting WUs
ConfusedBW
I'm a little rusty, but I have this bookmarked http://www.zoneedit.com/.. I believe
they offer a similar service.. maybe someone could correct me anyway, you can have my fortune cookie from lunch:
"You will have good luck and overcome many hardships"... That's deeeeep..
good luck -RT
they offer a similar service.. maybe someone could correct me
anyway, you can have my fortune cookie from lunch:"You will have good luck and overcome many hardships"... That's deeeeep..
good luck -RT
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