[OZAPRS] aprs.net.au dns problems

[Richard Hoskin]

That's technology for you.

The delay in DNS lookups was not really noticeable. You've got a good
backup
network.

Thanks!

Cheers
Richard
VK3JFK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 11:56 PM
> To: VK / ZL APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] aprs.net.au dns problems
> 
> Well that was weird...  Got home, reset the BIOS on the machine, powered
> it on, BANG, it blew the bejesus out of a smoothing cap on the back of
> the hotswap scsi backplane (didn't know you could get silicon
> surface-mount polarised caps..), powered it on again, and it's working
> fine! :)
> 
> --DG
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr
> Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2007 6:30 PM
> To: VK / ZL APRS Users
> Subject: [OZAPRS] aprs.net.au dns problems
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Just a quicky to let you know that aprs.net.au lookups may randomly take
> a little longer than normal for the next couple of days..  The VMware
> server at home died yesterday - one of the VM's on that is one of the
> dns servers for aprs.net.au, so lookups against that server will time
> out..  Though it's one of six or so servers, so you shouldn't hit it too
> often..  Unfortunately I'm currently up on the central coast, and
> heading to Canberra for a couple of days work, so won't be home till
> tuesday (and haven't been able to find anyone around noble park to go
> play with the DL380 that's running it, to see what the error is that's
> stopping the server powering up..  Little weird, being that they're a
> redundant-everything server, but bleh!)
> 
> Also, iiNet completely screwed (their network engineer's phrase!) my
> routing yesterday arvo, which dropped the primary DNS server for the
> domain off as well, which would have caused delays as well..  (many
> props to the 18yo-sounding 'network engineer' i ended up being put
> through to at iinet after yelling for 30 minutes at the indian guy who
> answered the phone not understanding what i was talking about..  The
> young guy was able to fix the routing of my /24 in about 30 seconds!  I
> think I interrupted him part-way through a WoW raid party, because I'm
> sure I heard WoW in the background ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Damien
> 
> PS, I'll be contacting the folks responsible for the other DNS servers
> at the start of next year, as the DNS master will be moving into the
> Transact DC in canberra, and the secondary that is currently down will
> be moving into Equinix in sydney..
> 
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