On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:46 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> 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.

err I think you are both confusing server with client?

> 
>  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!
> 

lokewise, i thought this was what arpanet was supposed to get round!

> 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
> 
> 
-- 
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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