[tech] Connection Problems

[David Manchester]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:42:50PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Simon Fryer wrote:
> 
> > I have noticed that over the past couple of weeks I have had problems 
> > connecting to UCC. Traceroutes seem to go to parnet-uwa.parnet.edu.au
> > and then die at villa.net.uwa.edu.au. When I can get a connection it
> > progressed through villa.net.uwa.edu.au to ucsrouter.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au an
> > so on. Is there any reason why ucsrouter is intermittently visable to 
> > villa.net.uwa.edu.au?
> 
> As others have indicated, the network hasn't been too stable. Between
> dodgy dumterms taking out the guild machine room to hydra halting on
> "Keyboard not detected, press F1 to continue" when rebooting remotely (now
> fixed in the BIOS) and myself occasionally taking down interfaces on
> morwong at 1am, I'm surprised I haven't been flamed more. On the plus
> side, there is now a DECserver providing serial console access to a few
> machines, which should help prevent some things recurring in the future. A
> second link into UCC wouldn't hurt either

Some details about the DECserver couldn't hurt ....

D.
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