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On Monday 28 November 2005 17:58, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 +0000 |
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> > |
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> > Ognjen Bezanov wrote: |
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> > > I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont |
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> > > experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it |
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> > > invariably does because my ISP reboots its servers every 28 days as a |
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> > > policy, thereby disconnecting me ). Chances are its a particular |
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> > > program thats trying to connect to the net and failing, thereby using |
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> > > cycles in new attempts. |
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> > > |
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> > > While we are at it, does there exist a program that can monitor my |
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> > > internet connection and run a script if the net is down (like a restart |
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> > > script)? I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart |
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> > > everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. |
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ifplugd works, at least at the ethernet level. |
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> > many programs do a dns lookup on connection, to see who is trying to |
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> > connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you have it |
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> > sorted properly. |
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> > can you ping via name to other machines on your lan? |
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> Yes I can. |
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