You may have noticed that Blogdom has been inaccessible for a few days...
Both Jeanie and I were out of town, so no one was available to deal with the situation.
Fortunately, we have absolutely wonderful neighbors - Peggy and Dave.
I called Dave and asked if he would mind going next door to reboot the router, to which he replied that he would be glad to.
Turns out that we had experienced somewhat of a "perfect storm" as far the infrastructure was concerned. Apparently, there had been a power failure long enough to cause the server to power down, so not only did the router need to be reset, but the server needed to be restarted. But, that wasn't the end of the challenge. Even after the router and server were restarted, I still couldn't access the site. After a little more digging, I determined that the IP address of the cable modem had changed as well. Fortunately, the cron job on the server functioned properly, and within an hour, the server updated the DNS records at ZoneEdit and all was well.
This is not the first time that Dave or Peggy have stepped in to save the day for us. We are so fortunate to have them as neighbors.
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Posted by David at March 27, 2004 07:07 PM | Categorized under: A day in the life, My blog