On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:41:46 -0400 phobos@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > You'll get timed out and clients will route around you. When you're > back online and the dirserver recognizes it, you'll get clients routed > to you. Assumed as much. > If you're flapping that much, it's better to just not be online at > all. The "line card" excuse means your provider oversubscribed the > upstream link; or they actually have a failed line card, but those > are usually replaced quickly. It took three days. My connection would die between about 4PM and 6PM every afternoon, and be unusable for about 8 to 12 hours. Thing is, I could still ping machines outside RoadRunner's sphere of influence without too many problems, but pings to certain IP blocks owned by RR fell into a black hole. And ARP requests seemed to come down the pipe unimpeded. I could also see reliable pings coming from "tech support" every time I called. I'd assume that if it were "line noise in my neighborhood caused by a bad card at the hub" as it was explained to me, all traffic would take a hit...? I'm guessing DNS problems, or a flaky router/whatever somewhere at the perimeter of their DNS machines, but that's just a wild a** guess on my part. Thoughts? Regardless, everything has been rock solid for the last 4 days so it appears the problem's solved. I'll wait another week or so though, just to be sure. -- Hand Crafted on Fri. Sep 02, 2005 at 22:21 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
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