Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/09/2011 01:08, Frank Shute wrote: I had to use them because my static IP all of a sudden became dynamic (crappy ISP). Now it seems to have gone back to static again. There are much better ISPs in the UK -- usually the smaller ones give you much better service. You can get a /28 fixed

SV: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread Hasse Hansson
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] På vegne af Robert Bonomi Sendt: den 22 september 2011 22:15 Til: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; kl...@thought.org Emne: Re: much to my surprise From owner-freebsd-questi

SV: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread Hasse Hansson
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] På vegne af Gary Kline Sendt: den 23 september 2011 03:31 Til: Ryan Coleman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Robert Bonomi Emne: Re: much to my surprise On Thu, Sep 22

Re: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]

2011-09-23 Thread Dave
From: Matt Emmerton m...@gsicomp.on.ca snip but i've been doing this for a while, and until i was away for five days, everything had been going fine for over a month. oh:: one power-out. the UPS saved the server, but everything else needed to be reinitialized. A

Re: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]

2011-09-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:48:09PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:48:09 -0400 From: Matt Emmerton m...@gsicomp.on.ca Subject: RE: much to my surprise [ now trending #OT ] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 *Finally*, i

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Not my experience.  Running my own DNS is simple and trouble free, plus it gives me much more scope to play with things like DNSSEC. I've done it before, but I don't anymore. Partly because it's very hard

Re: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]

2011-09-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:27:57PM +0100, Dave wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:27:57 +0100 From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: much to my surprise [ now trending #OT ] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.61) From: Matt

Re: SV: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:42:53AM +0200, Hasse Hansson wrote: Hello. Outsourcing primary DNS services saves a lot of hassle. I've been using http://freedns.afraid.org/ for a couple of years with great satisfaction. Please check'em out before decide. i've used afraid.org as a

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/09/2011 19:19, David Brodbeck wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Not my experience. Running my own DNS is simple and trouble free, plus it gives me much more scope to play with things like DNSSEC. I've done it before, but I

much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Gary Kline
guys, well, after a forced, unexpected, and emergency 5 days away, i got back to my desk and could not ping. while mail seemed to be working, and my *local* ping worked---I could ping around from my freebsd server to my other computers--i spent 3+ hours trying to ping various sites. Zero. i

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: much to my surprise guys, well, after a forced, unexpected, and emergency

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:14:50PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: much to my

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: much to my surprise

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Frank Shute
-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: much to my surprise guys, well, after a forced, unexpected, and emergency 5 days away, i got back to my desk and could not ping. while mail seemed to be working, and my *local* ping worked---I could ping around from my freebsd server

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:28:50 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com Subject: Re: much to my surprise To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kl...@thought.org X-Mailer: Apple

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of September 22, 2011 6:31:19 PM -0700, Gary Kline is alleged to have said: i'm to the point where letting somebody else handle the dns-and-outward side sounds better by the day. i'v got more question if you care to answer them. i've been using gkg.net

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:43:00PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:43:00 -0400 From: Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net Subject: Re: much to my surprise To: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) --As of September

RE: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]

2011-09-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
*Finally*, i saw that my telco router was displaying INT in red LED's. i didn't know they displayed in any other color but the default green, but after power-cycling, voila! back to green. and now, yes, i can ping freebsd.org. and i'm pretty sure other network things will work too.