--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:38 PM 7/14/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 19:30, will hill wrote: > >leases to keep the pool rotating -- and found that > this failed > >miserably. Plus it's disruptive and annoying for > customers. > > > >There are a whole lot of variables that could > explain why Dustin is > >losing his TS session. The Cox connection is one > of many and IMHO not > >the most likely root cause. > > Well, here is the deal. We have two Win2k TS > machines, both configured the > same way. One is on business DSL with Network > Telephone and the other > available via consumer Cox cable. It is a common > occurrence for the Win2k > TS on Cox to drop connections. It is rare for the > other Win2k TS to drop a > connection. > > Differences: > > 1. Internet provider > 2. CPE and router > > The same: > > 1. Client > 2. Client Internet provider > 3. Win2k server hardware > 4. Win2k server configuration > > So it's one of the differences unless I'm missing > something. > > As far as the IP addresses changing, we have a > domain pointing at our Cox > IP. We only have to change it if we reset the Cox > cable modem. >
One thing I have found with COX is that they change DNS servers fairly frequently (insode of ninty days). If you are a standard home user with a windows box when you can connect you will reboot, and viola, all is right with the world. If you are an always on user like myself, and prone to fits of sleeplessness, you will notice the issue. I find it really annoying to have to go through thirty minutes of conversation with some phone operator (most of their tech support people are very much above the level of receptionists to be honest), only to be told, "We don't support that. Disconnect your LAN and connect a windows PC directly to the MODEM. Tehn we cqan troubleshoot." Yeah, and then we can talk about what species your father was. ARGH! I do not think it is too much to ask for advanced notice of changing DNS routers, or maintenance outages. I might even be able to understand if they only told the help desk, but for the help desk to find out from me, seems a bit retarded. Calm down I tell myself. The average intelligence is not all that bright, and half the planet is slower thant that. But then, I ask myself, "Does my ISP have to higher all of the slower ones!" A solid network is very tough to set up. Once it is set up, is not rocket science to run though. The good Lord knows I helped set up enough of them morons are running just fine now. Why is Cox any different? Some schumk just walk in one morning and says, "Duh, gee Rockey, let's change all the DNS servers." "Gee, I don't Bullwinkle, why don't we send out an email and let people know what we are going to do?" "Gosh no, Rockey, I'll just rip this out here and plug it in over here!" ZZZIIITT. Boris grins. Why kill the Moose, the Moose does more damage alive than Boris could do if the Moose were dead. ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ http://www.libranet.com -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
