Re: dodgy hd
oops, 120 gig from dove Craig Falconer wrote: Barry Marchant wrote, On 15/06/09 16:30: had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up. 12 GB and 6 months old? Did you get it from a time warp or something?
Re: Internet shortages
Nick Rout wrote: Isn't that the adsl modem doled out free/cheap by telecom? I guess you get what you pay for :) not sure, i don't use them, particularly those things with USB ports - aren't they often dynalink things? anyway the one here has 4 ethernet ports, they are commonplace (so others will be using them) though possibly quite similar to lowest end give-aways. Seriously I think this sort of thing is often down to the customer equipment. may well be the factor in common to those with this issue, and more likely than: If you think its down to inactivity, this had just been the only thing I could put my finger on assuming (maybe falsely) OK equipment. get your server to do some pinging once an hour via cron.
Re: dodgy hd
Barry Marchant wrote, On 15/06/09 16:30: had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up. 12 GB and 6 months old? Did you get it from a time warp or something? -- Craig Falconer
dodgy hd
Hi all, had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up. Of course it was my main bootable ptn. All data was on other ptns and backed up so no major problems there. The crap ptn was recovered using fsck -b 32something and produced lots of inode an size problems. It now boots, I have not discovered anything missing yet, what further checks should I do, or should I just return it as being faulty? Barry
Re: Internet shortages
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Roger Searle wrote: > Roy Britten wrote: >> >> 2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie : >> >>> >>> Does this sound familiar to anyone? >>> >>> Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working >>> order and all report that they are connected to each other and the >>> internet >>> but you can't actually access anything online? >>> I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know >>> if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and >>> knows what it is. >>> >> >> Not since I switched to OpenDNS. Our D-Link router would frequently >> (~weekly) lose the plot with DNS. >> > > I've been using OpenDNS here for a few months, unfortunately our reliability > of connection via a d-link (504g) has not changed in that time. Last > occurrence just happened to be this morning. It's a random, perhaps "once a > month" kind of frequency. The pattern seems to be that it will be fine at > the end of one day, but no connectivity at the very start of the next, never > seems to happen during the work day. Pings to the internal router's address > are OK but nothing further out. Router may or may not report the external > connection is OK. > Very similar situation at home in that there is no connection - AFTER SOME > HOURS OF INACTIVITY - for example while we have been away from home for 9 or > so hours (though router, ISP, geographical location etc are all different). > I have no further clues, and just take this to be the quality of service we > have to tolerate. The fix is always the same - power down the router, wait > 10 seconds, plug back in, wait a couple of minutes, then all is well with > the world once more. Isn't that the adsl modem doled out free/cheap by telecom? I guess you get what you pay for :) Seriously I think this sort of thing is often down to the customer equipment. If you think its down to inactivity, get your server to do some pinging once an hour via cron.
Re: Internet shortages
Roy Britten wrote: 2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie : Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and knows what it is. Not since I switched to OpenDNS. Our D-Link router would frequently (~weekly) lose the plot with DNS. I've been using OpenDNS here for a few months, unfortunately our reliability of connection via a d-link (504g) has not changed in that time. Last occurrence just happened to be this morning. It's a random, perhaps "once a month" kind of frequency. The pattern seems to be that it will be fine at the end of one day, but no connectivity at the very start of the next, never seems to happen during the work day. Pings to the internal router's address are OK but nothing further out. Router may or may not report the external connection is OK. Very similar situation at home in that there is no connection - AFTER SOME HOURS OF INACTIVITY - for example while we have been away from home for 9 or so hours (though router, ISP, geographical location etc are all different). I have no further clues, and just take this to be the quality of service we have to tolerate. The fix is always the same - power down the router, wait 10 seconds, plug back in, wait a couple of minutes, then all is well with the world once more. Cheers, Roger
Re: Internet shortages
2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie : > Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working > order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet > but you can't actually access anything online? > I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know > if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and > knows what it is. Not since I switched to OpenDNS. Our D-Link router would frequently (~weekly) lose the plot with DNS.
Re: Internet shortages
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:08 AM, chris wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:07 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up > to go > > around to her house to fix her Internet router. > > > > It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just > wouldn't > > let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I > could > > see to do without having the router password, and she didn't know it. > > > > A real bummer, that! > > isn't the password normally admin or administrator? > cheers Chris T > > or password. or in occasional cases, the name of the manufacturer. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );
Re: Internet shortages
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:07 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up to go > around to her house to fix her Internet router. > > It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't > let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I could > see to do without having the router password, and she didn't know it. > > A real bummer, that! isn't the password normally admin or administrator? cheers Chris T
Re: Internet shortages
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Wesley Parish wrote: > > It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't > let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I > could > see to do without having the router password, and she didn't know it. > Generally in that case its still default, I was at a friends house recently in a similar situation, they didn't know the password, so I guessed it in 2 attempts ;) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );
Re: Internet shortages
I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up to go around to her house to fix her Internet router. It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I could see to do without having the router password, and she didn't know it. A real bummer, that! Wesley Parish On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:57, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working > order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet > but you can't actually access anything online? > I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know > if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and > knows what it is. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Are couch potatoes good to eat? A nose by any other name would smell as sweet. (By Bacon under the pseudonym of Shakespeare) - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
