Finally Repaired!

Server Status: Up Yea!

Server Notes
The DSL is up and working again. As such, e-mail, FTP, websites and the forum are back up as well.

Server Repair Journal Day 6
Well, after almost a full week of problems, and a small issue with phoneticlly similar letters, the DSL is finally back up and running. In that time, it has become quite clear to me that we REALLY need a backup server, if for nothing else, so that when the link goes down, people's e-mail doesn't fall into a giant black pit. So... I built Lumpy. Well, not really built, more like recommissioned, since it's just Ed renamed to avoid confusion... Hopefully, I will soon have lumpy up and online on the WWE backbone. If I do get it up, it will be in charge of weekly backups of the NQIG website, personal directories, and databases; Acting as a true secondary DNS server (*gasp*); and acting as a mail queue for when Motoko is unavailible (Basically setting it up as a relay and telling it to hold it's mail queue forever or until delivered.)

In any case the server is back up. BTW... Since this is the NQIG news blog, NQIG members, feel free to ask for access so you can post things like special meetings, interesting upcoming events, and general NQIG public broadcasts. (Remember, the whole world can read this, so make sure that what you put up here is something you want the world to see.)

A Quick Notice

Server Status: Up, Link is down

Server Notes
Modem is due today. I'll have it up as soon as possible.

A Due Date!

Server Status: Up, Link is down

Server Notes
We have a due date for when the server will be repaired!!! I figure I'll have the server up sometime between Monday and Wendsday, depending on shipping and configuration difficaulties.

Server Repair Journal Day 3
Ok, so it's technically the same wake/sleep cycle as the day 2 post, but it's technically a new day. Anyway... I FINALLY got through to QWest. They said almost exactly what I expected them to. "WOW! You went though EVERYTHING I was going to have you do. You probably have a busted router... How about I send you a new one and return the old one to us."

Wow... I waited on hold for 4 hours for a 5 minute discussion on getting my router replaced. Ok, so it was more like 10 minutes because I also asked him for a new password (mostly because I've long since lost the paper with the old one, and haven't needed to enter it into a console for something like a year) Turns out that they got slammed with all of the traffic from MSN's tech support when they took it over. They're opening up a new call center, but it won't be for a while.

Anywho... YEA!!!

Still down and Alternatives

Server Status: Up but the link is down.

NQIG Server Notes
At the moment it is important for people to remember that as long as the NQIG server is not connected to the internet, all emails that are sent to accounts @nqig.net will not be delivered.

Because of this I am looking into establishing a secondary server responsible for being a backup when the NQIG site is down. Ed (No, Ed isn't gone) will probably end up on the Wright Water Engineers backbone and will be configured to act as a secondary DNS Server, Mail server (I'll set it up with a lower MX priority and configure it to cache e-mails indefinately untill it can forward them to Motoko.), and will have it do a daily or weekly (depends on the agreement I establish with WWE on transfer limits) backups.

Or...

I'll purchase some bandwidth at a server farm like Icy has done and setup the server there. If I can find one that will allow me to ship them my computer and have them host it on their backbone, I'll ship them Motoko, find another group, ship them Ed, and if it costs less than $40 a month for at lease 1 GB a month of bandwidth each (A number we have only ever exceeded once and it was when we first created the forum) We could easily avoid this problem in the future.

Server Repair Journal Day 2
The magical hardware repair fairy didn't come last night, that means either it was too hard for him to fix, or he didn't feel like doing it. In either case, I've waited long enough. So I tried to call QWest again. Didn't even make it into the hold loop. They're lines where locked down with other calls. My only guess is that either they have WAY too few people on their call staff, or there's something messing everybody up. In any case that means that I am going to continue to have trouble getting through. Since today is Thursday, I've decided to establish a reverse telethon, where I call QWest over and over until either I get through or pass out from exaustion. Since I know I can pull 24 hours easy, I figure I won't crash until sometime around 11:00 AM tommorow. If I havn't gotten through by then, I'm just gonna call it quits and give up. Well, by give up I mean goto bed and try again when I wake up.

First post and problems.

Server Status: Down.

Server Repair Journal Day 1
My router's gone. There's no way to revive it. I'm stranded, alone, no escape. I'm stuck in the, "Internet Free Zone"...

Ok... Here's the shakedown. Yesterday my router bit the dust. My analysis shows that the router's internal ethernet switch has become faulty. As such I can't even use the thing as a stupid hub. On the bright side however, I can make it connect to the internet, which is helarious because the nearly indestructable ethernet side doesn't work, so I have a perfectly good router that can't be used because it has no lan side ports. Obviously I've tried to call quest about this, but have spent aproximately 4 hours total on hold without ever getting through. So I'll have to try again tonight. However... I had a physics assignment I was going to work on. Now I'm behind. With my cable being out from the construction work, that means the only things I have for entertainment are my game cube, my dvd's, my single player PC games (whose numbers have been deminishing now for several years), and my manga. No FFXI, no Ed, Edd, Eddy. Nada. It really sucks.

Obviously, if you're reading this, I've either fixed it or given up and put this up on blogspot...

Maybe if I wait long enogh, the magical hardware repair fairy will fix it for me...