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  Overheating
  rich (17:43 28/8/2004)
  monkeyson2 (09:13 31/8/2004)
    rich (09:39 31/8/2004)
 
Richard Goodwin Message #57628, posted by rich at 17:43, 28/8/2004
Rich
Dictator for life
Posts: 6828
Grr, I'm missing Bob's stag do because the gateway in the office overheated!
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RichGCheers,
Rich.
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Phil Mellor Message #57629, posted by monkeyson2 at 09:13, 31/8/2004, in reply to message #57628
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380 		Place your bets now as to why TIB vanished this weekend... Was it

A. The gateway overheated.

or

B. It was Bob's stag do.

;)
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Richard Goodwin Message #57632, posted by rich at 09:39, 31/8/2004, in reply to message #57629
Rich
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I had to ditch the stag do to come in to work :( :( :( Had a great time with the carting, but missed the bowling, X-Box-ing and of course the drinking of copious amounts of alcohol. Pictures of the bits I did take part in are here.

The ironic thing was that when I got home, I could see the server fine - I was puzzled as to why no-one was posting to the forums! I even uploaded my photos. Then I figured out that when the gateway went down it must have blocked DNS requests, so the secondary server was used instead - and that hasn't been updated, because it's owned by someone else and I only asked them to change it last week. So, all requests were being pushed back to the old server, which was to all intents and purposes shut down.

I did have the foresight to not shut it down completely - there's always something you forget to transfer across, so I firewalled it and shut everything down except SSH. Of course, my ADSL line wasn't connecting quick enough to get past the 60 second login restriction, so I faced coming in to work for three days straight over the weekend. I had to walk to work in the rain on Friday night because someone had forgotten his wallet, only to find he'd got in when the cleaners came in. So, it had to wait until this morning for me to log in to the old server, open the firewall, update the DNS serial numbers (with the same Perl script I used to switch everything to the new server - handy that ;) ) and then restart DNS. At which point everything started working again.
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RichGCheers,
Rich.
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