[plug] ADSL problems

[Paul Dean]

Hya,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig at postnewspapers.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2003 13:34
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] ADSL problems
>
>
> > If you goto your account online @ toolbox iiNet, you will
> find a new feature
> > called "iiNet NetStatus Subscription Service".
> > This emails to your designated email addy status of iiNet
> network, Dialup,
> > ADSL Staff etc.
>
> Cool... I knew there was a faults mailing list, but never
> seemed to be
> able to find out where to subscribe. Not that it does much
> good when my
> DSL goes down or their servers get mailbombed.
>
> > Recently the DSL network has had some major problems
> (Telstra side), but
> > this mornings prob, one off iiNet's routers had a config
> problem, yesterday
> > some nice little ^$&^$ descided to DoS the iiNet mail
> network, which caused
> > some major head-aches, this was not iiNet's fault and their upstream
> > provider blocked the source.
>
> The DoS, while not iiNet's fault, shows a problem with their mail
> servers - they just don't have the capacity to deal with mailbombing
> etc. This /will/ happen to an ISP, and while I'd love to
> string up the
> little turds responsible by their little toes (or somewhere even less
> comfortable) and leave them there, it won't stop the problem.
> If iiNet's
> servers get attacked, then even after the attack is blocked
> it can take
> DAYS to get back to normal function.

For iiNet it was a matter of minutes, as they are running Debian as their
main server OS.

>
> For that reason, I gave up on their mailservers entirely in favour of
> locally hosted mail. They were mailhosting for our domain, so all it
> took was switching the MX. Its made life /so/ much easier...
> now if only
> mx1 and mx2.iinet.net.au (which we use as backup MXes) would support
> ETRN so I could force delivery after DSL outages....
>
> Craig
>

Yup I do all my own mail/web/DNS blah blah and iiNet is just an uplink to
the web.



Thanks...


Paul.

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