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]>
