[IMC-Boston-Editorial] [IMC-Boston-Tech] Server Back Online

[Sofia JarrinT]

hi Jon!

Thanks a million for taking care of this. Yup, I saw
the site go down and thought... Hmmmm, should I call?
But hell, I figured you would eventually see it. Now
I'm glad I didn't since you were at swimming lessons
either way. Hey, the kids come first. I'm just glad
the server didn't go down on Monday instead of
yesterday.

anywho, thanks again and good call posting that note
on the site... keep on rocking,

sofia

--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> emarassingly easy fix, if it had only broken 15 min
> earlier...
> 
> so I posted this explaination to the site:
> 
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/67013/index.php
> 
> At approximately 5pm yesterday a DHCP (Dynamic Host
> Configuration
> Protocol) server misconfiguration caused network
> connectivity issues
> at our hosting site.  The situation was shortly
> resolved and all
> systems, except this one, came back online.
> 
> Do to family obligations I was unable to get to the
> server until this
> morning, and remote access was unresponsive.
> 
> It turns out that when the DHCP server came back on
> line this server
> got it's IP information and DNS server info, but not
> any routing
> information and thus was unreachable (unless you
> were on the same
> physical network, a trick I should have tried last
> night, oh well)
> 
> So once I got to the machine it was a simple matter
> of typing in the
> router's address and we were back up and running.
> 
> This situation will not trouble us again as I've
> statically configured
> all the network information and we are no longer
> reliant on DHCP
> service.
> 
> -Jon
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