From kragen@dnaco.net Tue Sep 22 09:42:38 1998 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:42:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen X-Sender: kragen@pike To: andy grawehr cc: support@dnaco.net Subject: Re: web page? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 2076 Status: O X-Status: On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, andy grawehr wrote: > where has your web page gone? I was looking for /sw/usershell.html > thanks!! Sorry! My ISP is having all kinds of trouble. http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sw/usershell.html is the permanent address. You can try http://207.238.206.7/~kragen/sw/usershell.html, which is one forwarding service, one CNAME record, and one A record away from the previous address, and should therefore be a little more reliable, but even that seems to not be working at the moment for me. My ISP moved to new quarters last week. The results: - Dialups, and everything else, were down for three days. - Dialups are still not fully up, five days later. Some of them are up. - The SunOS 4 shell machines are both down. Neither of them has come back up. Another machine running Solaris 2.5.1 has been pressed into service. - The Web server keeps going down. It's been down since early this morning, again. - NIS was down this morning, which is perhaps why I couldn't dial in this morning. Here's what I've learned from this: - Maybe it's not such a good idea to use Suns. They're widely reputed to be unreliable and their service is widely reputed to be ignorant. (They're certainly more reliable than most PC hardware, though.) (I don't actually know that any of these problem have anything to do with fragility of hardware, by the way. For all I know, several of the machines could have fallen off the back of a truck on the way to the new quarters. This happened to a Sequent Symmetry massively-parallel machine at my college.) - Maybe it's a good idea to look for an ISP that has tech-support hours longer than five hours a day. Especially if those five hours are 7 PM to midnight. DNACo is great for dialups. I think I will look elsewhere for Web space. Kragen -- Kragen Sitaker The sages do not believe that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. -- Wang Yang-Ming