Stolen cables
Our telephone cables got stolen Thursday night. Thieves cut off a long portion (about 50 meters) of phone lines just a couple of kilometers from the campus.
So now, we're without voice, fax and data communications to the outside world. Networking = NOTworking.
I transferred Angelica to the DA NIN VSAT connection. Hopefully, users can connect to the Net through that. But my subsequent testing results show that the connection is way too clunky. Most connections are dropped or outright refused. I would have to tweak Squid settings yet again. I can't change the settings on the VSAT proxy, but I would love to — that might kick it up a bit.
The loss came right after we were about to clean up one solution to our last-mile connection problem. We just received a new IP block from Preginet, and with that, we can probably implement alternative DNS entries for Preginet and AFRDIS. They say the theft is not new, that this had happened in the past.
We would probably be voiceless, faxless and dataless over Christmas and through New Year's Day. Bummer.
So now, we're without voice, fax and data communications to the outside world. Networking = NOTworking.
I transferred Angelica to the DA NIN VSAT connection. Hopefully, users can connect to the Net through that. But my subsequent testing results show that the connection is way too clunky. Most connections are dropped or outright refused. I would have to tweak Squid settings yet again. I can't change the settings on the VSAT proxy, but I would love to — that might kick it up a bit.
The loss came right after we were about to clean up one solution to our last-mile connection problem. We just received a new IP block from Preginet, and with that, we can probably implement alternative DNS entries for Preginet and AFRDIS. They say the theft is not new, that this had happened in the past.
We would probably be voiceless, faxless and dataless over Christmas and through New Year's Day. Bummer.
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