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

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: 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

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
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: 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

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.