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Server Outages and DHCP Woes

Saturday, October 27, 2007
So this humble blog experienced some unintentional downtime yesterday. I woke up and was rather displeased to note an absolute inability to contact my server. Tragically curious. I tried to figure out what happened, which wasn't easy with no feedback from the computer, but eventually realized that I'd been emailed the results of a system update.

First guess? The server is actually running inside VMware virtual machine on top of a host server. I figured the system update had been for the host and had updated the kernel, something VMware doesn't always take kindly to.

However, I finally managed to get my hands on the machine and found the reason for the downtime to be quite simple. Yes, everything was working when I got to it, but for one thing...

So a week or so ago I switched out the wireless router that my server was hiding behind - from a crappy Netgear that would bomb out about once an hour when using the wireless from my MacBook Pro to a used but stable Linksys. The downside of this particular Linksys is that it doesn't do DHCP reservations (thought the Netgear did). Not a big deal, I thought... I figured my computers would request and get the same addresses and it wouldn't be an issue for port fowarding.

I was wrong.

I let them keep their current DHCP addresses but, loathe though I am to do it, I may switch over to static IP addresses should this problem crop up again. We'll see.

2 Comments:

Blogger Jake said...

How old is the Linksys? If old enough, you might be able to install dd-wrt on it, which supports DHCP reservations.

4:32 PM, October 28, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I ran static IP's for ages on my linksys. Not really a real issue.

4:39 PM, October 29, 2007  

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