[OZAPRS] aprs.net down?

[John Williams]

The Sydney IRLP reflector 9500 was down for a rebuild during the period
aprs.net.au
was down.  Not 100% sure they are the same box, but they do have the same
public IP.

Cheers

John


On 13 Jul 2006 at 22:54, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Richard Hoskin wrote:
> 
> > The VK APRS-IS servers were badly hacked a few years ago. To stop this

> > happening again some aggressive software was installed which blocks IP

> > addresses to the servers that the software thinks is a threat. 
> > Unfortunately the software gets it wrong sometimes.
> 
> "Badly hacked", eh?  Wouldn't it be easier all around to use software
that 
> does not require extra layers to be installed?
> 
> You cannot glue on security as an afterthought; it must be built-in.
> 
> > If you are blocked changing your IP address will get you back in. One 
> > advantage of having a dynamic IP address. Or wait until the blocked IP

> > address is timed out and let back in.
> 
> A dynamic IP address?  Yep, and get yourself blocked from a good chunk
> of the world's servers...
> 
> -- Dave
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