[tech] Damnit

[Duncan Sargeant]

Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset> wrote on Sun October 01, at 19:13 +0800:
> sorry for the multiple postings. I couldn't get to UCC from iinet so I
> drove down here to check it out. Only I realised about halfway down that
> it was probably unrelated to the UCCs network. Sure enough, UWA had a
> buggered up link to outside. Then mail got a little fruity (ie it was
> taking a LONG time to send messages to tech) and ssh around the network
> was really really slow (so slow that I ditched them after 5 seconds of
> waiting for them to connect, so I don't know if they even worked). Things
> were fruity.

Western Power were doing some electrical work at BankWest, they stuffed
up and we ended up with no power.

I think the slowness problem is because DNS lookups slow down.  If you
use IP addresses everything should work fine :-)  The busy DNS server
doesn't like it much when most of its requests are timing out.

,dunc