[Novalug] test

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Tue Feb 28 20:58:34 EST 2012


No sooner do I hit the "send" button, the freakin FIOS router reboots itself.

Man, what in sam hill is going on!!!!

Jay

> Interesting. I've never had to reboot my fios router since I've had fios
> installed. Then again, I'm not really using it for much. it's only purpose is
> for the set top boxes to do there thing. I have the router sitting behind my
> firewall, so all internet goes through my firewall. Never had a problem,
> except when I do something stupid on the firewall, thankfully, that doesn't
> happen too often.
> --
> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
>
> Well, it seems that my domain dropped off the face of the planet this morning.
> No internet connectivity on any of my machines, and hence email was dead as
> well. Wife stated that the Verizon FIOS router was operating "normally". So,
> I assumed my server was having issues, and once I got home this evening
> started looking into the problem.
>
> Looked through the log files, but everything looked ok. However, couldn't
> ping anything outside the FIOS router.
>
> So, I rebooted the FIOS router, and that gave me internet connectivity back. I
> could send emails, but was unable still to receive emails or visit my "domain"
> from my smartphone (still dead to the world).
>
> Again, very carefully reviewed all services and logs on the server, and
> rebooted it and looked at all logs as it finished starting services, and
> everything looked fine.
>
> Something told me "LOG INTO THE STUPID FIOS ROUTER AND CHECK IT", so I did.
> Port forwarding looked like it still had the correct settings. Eventually
> made my way to the "Advanced" tab and looked at the 'Dynamic DNS' section. Lo
> and behold it is reporting DYNDNS as in "error" condition. Went to update it
> and the dang router picked that exact moment to reboot. Once it came back up
> I updated the username/pwd for dyndns again and within 10 minutes I had
> service restored to my domain.
>
> I had power issues last night, lost an entire leg and Dominion dug a 2x2x3
> foot hole in my yard to fix. I turned everything off, and everything came
> back up fine and I had connectivity at 0715 this morning. Not sure what
> happened after that.
>
> Lesson learned: Dominion has great service, and Verizon equipment still sux...
>
> Jay
>
>> Guess the test worked, depending on what it was trying to do.
>>
>> EJ
>>
>> On 2/28/12, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
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