Friday, January 30, 2004
- Outage report: As some of you may have noticed, until yesterday vgsmail ran on a dynamically allocated IP address, with the mapping being maintained by zoneedit. I liked this setup as it gave a very minor added protection against network scanners looking for linux systems to hack. However, it did have a couple of minor drawbacks (some web-caches didn't like this) and I finally made the decision yesterday to move to a static IP address. I requested that the change be made at noon, and at about 2pm my connection disappeared completely. After much confusion and about 2 hours on the phone this morning the problem seems to have been fixed (a combination of a fault with the ISP end and a dodgy router at my end). My apologies again for the outage.
- A positive side-effect to the previous paragraph is that I have now opening up the new UK-directed route and am reducing the cost of all UK-bound messages to 3.4p, effective immediately.
- A positive side-effect to the previous paragraph is that I have now opening up the new UK-directed route and am reducing the cost of all UK-bound messages to 3.4p, effective immediately.
