Now with Less Broken!

[lwood]

Qapla'!

["Success!" --because dammit it just sounds cooler in the Original Klingon]

Comcast has just been by and swapped out the new modem/bridge for the new modem/router. I have swept in over the network and hopefully completed all updates necessary to get lorien to recognize its new IP, and to tell all its friends that it has a new IP.

However, there may be some lingering issues, so the new Muppet-Enhanced Status is:

Overall Status	Explanation
	The current status of my server is Bert as the network is UP but it and the software may both be FUNKY.

Projected hardware upgrades can now proceed at some leisure.

Web services are UP. E-Mail is UP.

DNS is UP but will propagate slowly; this means it may be a couple days before all receipt and delivery is back to normal. DNS-related issues are why we are at Bert instead of Cookie or the ideal Oscar.

Comments

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Given that you're on Comcast now, how responsive are they to creating PTR records for your mail server? I've had mixed success with various ISPs in getting them implemented.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

countgeiger is currently talking to Comcast about that, apparently--just called to check.

-- Lorrie

[countgeiger.livejournal.com]

Actually, they're very quick. It took a few minutes on hold, but the response was "Sure no problem! What do you want the names to be? If you need to change them later, just call us back!"

They made a typo in ours, so I'm on hold now to get that corrected, but overall I have to say I'm REALLY impressed. They're fast, (72 hours from call in to get this installed to being up and running) Their speeds are VERY quick (I tested this morning and was seeing 9.2Mb/Sec down, 720kb/sec up) and very responsive when you call.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that the business stuff is quite new to them, isn't it? That would necessarily encourage better response from them.

And they misspelled that PTR record. 8-P

-- Lorrie

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

Hooray, that the Mail of Squirrel is up and running! Hooray, that lwood and countgeiger rule in ways too numerous for earthly counting! Let the people cheer and the animals bow in deference (except the cats, of course)! HUZZAH!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

-- Lorrie