[H-GEN] Telstra ADSL

[Kris Amy]

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I have noticed this same problem, i have tried changing that option
aswell, these machines are on telstra adsl around australia. All they
currently do when the link appears to drop out is to walk over to the
machine and give it a "3-fingered-salute", once it reboots the adsl is
fine for 5hrs - 5 months[1]. I also use dns2go, works a treat.


[1] depending on whether the telstra network is up or stays up this long
Kris Amy

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Sarah Walters wrote:

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> Sorry, I didn't mention that. DynDNS have several clients, for various
> OSes. The script I'm using is written in Python
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:59:31AM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote:
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> > And for the sake of alternatives - there is DNS2GO which provides a Linux
> > Client
> > as well as Windows Clients.  The service is free for non commercial use.
> >
> > See www.dns2go.com - it's part of Deerfield who are famous for Wingate.the
> > Windows firewall and routing software.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of
> > Sarah Walters
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:47 AM
> > To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Telstra ADSL
> >
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> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:02:30PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > > I've setup a Linux (RH 7.3) box to connect to Bigpond ADSL using the
> > > rp-pppoe package (it even came with directions for Bigpond :)
> > We're set up with the four-port modem operating in bridging mode to the
> > linux
> > box and haven't had any problems.
> >
> > > The box is now (apparently) uncontactable [1].  To make matters worse it
> > > keeps changing IP on each ADSL restart & I'm getting the people onsite to
> > > browse from a windows box behind the Linux server to a web page I control
> > > so I can spot the new IP (these people know _nothing_ about unix).  Due to
> > > the other problems I have not yet implemented a script to mailout the IP
> > > to myself & the owner (the link lockups are hampering development
> > > somewhat).
> >
> > My suggestion to you is get a Dynamic DNS rather than sending the email. You
> > will need a real domain name to send email to some servers anyway, as
> > sendmail
> > can be configured to bounce mail that isn't from a real domain name.
> >
> > We are using dyndns.org. They're free for limited personal use. I'm sure
> > you could find an Australian company that does dynamic DNS. As part of our
> > script that connects to adsl we run another script that logs in to the
> > dyndns
> > server and submits our new IP. So all we have to do to find our box is
> > ssh walters.dyndns.org.
> >
> > Sorry I can't help with your core problem, but once you have it sorted out
> > think about dynamic DNS rather than email.
> >
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