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April 26, 2004
Bouncing connections
It seems today that no matter what you do, your internet connection isn't safe. Starting on Wednesday of last week, the server that houses everything here came under an ICMP redirect attack. The whole event seemed poised to try and take down the root name-servers, and eventually we watched as our bandwidth disappeared to nothing. This stopped sometime Thursday morning but left us in a slightly incapacitated state, where the connection was now just instantly unstable. After 5 days of more down than up time, it seems that the ISP has been able to correct this and the connection, albeit slow, is now holding strong. To any and all who might have emailed me in the past 6 days or before hoping for a response, you will get one (very) soon. Honest, I tried to respond, but the server disagreed with me.
Choice conversation snippets I had with the ISP include:
Them: Are you sure the network configuration didn't change?
Me: Well, it's not standard for a UNIX machine to lose it's config on the fly like that, but maybe a stray electron from a solar flare flipped a few bits so I'll double check that. Oh wait a second, I can't do that.
Them: Why?
Me: Because your router isn't responding, which makes my machine inaccessible to the outside world.
Them: So you can't confirm your network configuration?
Posted by Dan at April 26, 2004 08:34 PM