To avoid any appearance of conflict of interest, I let this through
the moderation filter. Now, while I'm technical director for
certzone, I haven't had anything to do with setting up the e-commerce
part. You may have discovered an outright bug, and customer service,
I'm sure, could help. I can't speak for the financial people either,
but if you ask, they'll probably refund the prorated time -- about 9
1/2 hours of a one year subscription.
But there is a lesson here relevant to router operations. As I say, I
don't know the details of the e-commerce server that handles
membership. As a consequence, I don't know exactly how its clock is
set. While the certzone servers are physically in US Eastern time,
they might be set to Zulu time. Look at any email message; the time
is usually Zulu with an offset.
When debugging router interactions, just being on the same time zone
is something to check, and then, depending on how tight the
interactions are, you may very well want to turn on NTP
synchronization. Otherwise, you won't be sure about whether the
chicken or the egg crossed the road first, or something like that.
In the ongoing IETF BMWG work on routing convergence, we are hoping
that NTP will be good enough to track protocol behavior, but some of
the more statistically-minded researchers are worried that it will
not. I'm hoping that most of our basic measurements can be done using
NTP-synchronized routers as the source and sink of data, but other
workers are pressing for GPS or other, more accurate time
synchronization.
But really...isn't the term ripoff a little strong? Or, should I say,
no router rip
:-)
Happy new year.
>Hey Folks,
>
>Am l alone in this? My year old subscription to Certificationzone.com ends
>on Dec 31 2001 EST. It is just 2:37pm EST Dec 31st and l have already been
>deleted from their database and l can't access the site. This is the error
>message am getting.
>OOPS!
>"The Zone ID or Password you supplied could not be located in our database.
>This probably means you currently do not have a membership or subscription
>to the ZONE.
>If you think you may have made a mistake while entering either your Zone ID
>or Password, simply type them in the login box above and try again.
>If you are not yet a CertificationZone.com Member or Subscriber you sign
>here"
>
>My username and password has never changed. What is this suppose to mean?
>
>Jimmy
>
>The Zone ID or Password you supplied could not be located in our database.
>This probably means you currently do not have a membership or subscription
>to the ZONE.
>If you think you may have made a mistake while entering either your Zone ID
>or Password, simply type them in the login box above and try again.
>If you are not yet a CertificationZone.com Member or Subscriber you
>
>The Zone ID or Password you supplied could not be located in our database.
>This probably means you currently do not have a membership or subscription
>to the ZONE.
>If you think you may have made a mistake while entering either your Zone ID
>or Password, simply type them in the login box above and try again.
>If you are not yet a CertificationZone.com Member or Subscriber you can
>Zone ID or Password you supplied could not be located in our database. This
>probably means you currently do not have a membership or subscription to the
>ZONE.
>If you think you may have made a mistake while entering either your Zone ID
>or Password, simply type them in the login box above and try again.
>If you are not yet a CertificationZone.com Member or Subscriber you
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