Hi Glen,

Is there an IP I can use to ssh to the server while the dns issues are 
resolved?

Thanks,
Tarun

Glen Roberts wrote:
> Today just after noon (edt) our Qwest internet connection (not the one the 
> EDU server is on) went down. I was in the middle of upgrading the DNS servers 
> so it frustrated that task enormously.
>
> Qwest seemed to have the service more or less restored by 4:30 PM or so. At 
> that time I noticed an email from AT&T saying that they had monitored outages 
> on our AT&T circuit (the one the EDU server is on). Apparently this was of an 
> intermittent nature.
>
> Apparently Verizon had a fiber cut somewhere....
>
> The result is that DNS was probably down for 5+ hours and the connection 
> otherwise intermittent. There may still be DNS issues but I am too tired to 
> dig too deeply until tomorrow. 65.118.27.2 was probably configured as a 
> secondary dns in /etc/resolv.conf on edublog. It might be better to change 
> that to 208.67.222.222 (opendns.org) as 65.118.27.2 is no long active.
>
> Glen
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