Corrections

By: brenda donovan
To: all
Re: internet stuff

hello all,

Last week NorthPoint Communications closed it's doors and proceeded to dump all it's DSL circuits. Mine went down for good Wed afternoon. A couple of my customers are in this loop also.

Fortunately, I had a backup circuit here at home. It's only 144K but it's a Covad circuit. Unfortunately, I'd never got around to testing it. The router and line were bad. Had Covad out here Thursday and they replaced the router. They "fixed" line. Still didn't work. Covad said it was a PacBell problem. PacBell come out yesterday afternoon and did some magic at my MPOE and it's alive.

In the meantime, my ISP said to bring my servers over to his office so we could get them back online. Friday morning, I moved 4 critical machines over there. There aren't many ISP's who'd do that for their customers. These guys are super!

That got my primary DNS server, my RADIUS server, my 2 FTP servers, my main web site, some small web sites, 6 e-commerce web sites, and a few other things back on the internet. I spent most of Thursday getting the fidonet stuff onto one of those machines. I had to move 200 email mailboxes from one server to another so my customers could get their email. I didn't get alot of sleep but it was worth it. All 4 servers came live just fine. My main mail server and web sites are on a T1 at a colocation site, so the main disruption was to all the things here at home.

Today I'll catch up on the file echos and allfix stuff. I concentrated on the mail not the files. Bob Seaborn has about 95 megs of spooled filebone files waiting for my word to send down here for processing. I hope to get them out today sometime.

I have the fidonet processing all on a Windows 2000 server and I can log in remotely with Terminal Services Client. There are still a couple of small batch file things to fix... my previous fidonet processing utilized my whole LAN here at home and I had things spread out all over the place. There were a lot of paths to get changed in config files <grin>. For the most part, it's all working again.

Let me know if there are any glitches.

take care...

-brenda <donovan@tnl-online.net>

Editor> Many, many thanks Brenda, for all of your hard work for us fido folks. I'm certain I speak for everyone. Fidonews would not get out were it not for your personal endevor for it's existence at times.

Ol'wdb