Richard Tindall wrote:
That telecom outage today was a doozey. It crippled the dhcp server in
the DSL-302G modem for quite a while - the "status" light was
literally on the blink. Strange. Anyone else see similar?
Your dhcp server *should* only be updating every 3600 seconds at the
very least ( iirc it checks that your lease is still valid at 50% of
that value ). So, once you've got a license, you should keep it for at
least an hour.
From the third party reports I've heard, it was the logon server that
got disconnected ( there's only one??? ), so once you lost your lease,
you were stuffed.
What I can't believe is that there was no redundancy, given that the
fibre infrastructure was designed for it. Was it designed like the
Shuttle... lowest bid got the contract? Two cable breaks, one on each
island, took out all of the Telecom internet, chunks of the mobile
network, and eftpos!
There was a similar outage in London about 10 years ago, when a ship
dragged it's anchor and cut both sides of the ring across the Thames.
Took linx out for the best part of a day. But at least there was a ring
present, even if both sides were next to each other!
Steve
- Re: telecom outage Steve Holdoway
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