[Gllug] Routing strangeness

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 23 Oct, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> I am not sure if anybody can help me with this, but here goes anyway....
> 

> 
> Now, the problem I have is that during the working day it seems connectivity 
> is extremely patchy - public traceroutes (via traceroute.org) from all over 
> the world seem to stall inside Homechoice's (my ISP) network.
> 
> Yet whenever I test it all in the evening all seems fine. But... the external 
> IP address is dynamic and I have had to reset the interface a couple of times 
> (though Homechoice do not report *any* problems).
> 
> Rather than leave the apache box on overnight, I then usually power it down 
> and restart it in the morning, whereupon it appears that connectivity is 
> patchy.
> 
> Could this be anything at all to do with my firewall, or is it just dodgy 
> routing from Homechoice?
> 
   It could be down to DNS refresh times somewhere, either within your
internal system or your outside contacts.
   Why do you need to power cycle your hardware? It is thought to be not
policy good to repeatedly power cycle a box or heat cycle the hard discs.


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Chris Bell

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