Damn Im leet

[McNevin]

I came home to my cable modem offline.

I am setting up my discounted cable that I get thru work. I don’t actually live in the service area of my cable co. so I get a half ass discount from the company I do have.

They half set me up and apparently I’m in "transition" which equals a service interruption. I can’t access my account "directly" I have to have my liaison, talk to their liaison, it’s a muck fest.

I called tonight so see what the hell was up. My current account is under "voluntary disconnect" and my new account is "pending install"

When I access the internet I get a "self registration page†my modem is online, but I have a non network IP and anything I try to access results in the self setup page.

I dropped some lingo on the tech, and tried to talk him into "provisioning my modem" he said he would but wouldn’t you know it, provisioning is down. I don’t know if he is feeding me shit, but somehow I believe him, because nothing ever works at this company.

My modem wouldn’t be working till 7am when they expected provisioning to return. This happens at my co. all the time. Service is up; just no new modems can be added.

I was going to wait and then I thought I’d mess with it. I still had my old IP. I calculated the subnet for that particular range to find the gateway. Plugged in the addresses statically to my router, added the university of Washington DNS servers (this one is for you jerk) and I was back online. If my provider is anything like the one I work for they should have a 24 hour DHCP lease, this will provide me with around 18 hours of access until the lease of that IP is revoked. By that time those fuxors should have provisioning back up again.

Go team!

[N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!!]

in any way related to why www.monkeylair.com doesn't work?

[enderzero]

Well done.

128.95.196.1 ?

I have a text file full of DNS servers to use when I need to go static in different parts of the world. UW is near the top.

But what happened to 128.95.42.2 ?

[R3C]

I think your DNSes are slightly off 3nder I can't remember the exact numbers because it's been about 10 years, but those seem off to me.

I think this is part of one:

128.95.120.xxx

I remember 120 being part of the secondary.

[enderzero]

Name: coulomb.ee.washington.edu
Address: 128.95.196.1

I'm pretty sure this is one of their DNS servers. At least it used to be when I was there. It is likely that they have a few. I'm sure McNervin could easily clear this up.

[McNevin]

Youre both right!

128.95.120.1 & 128.95.112.1 are the ones from "back in the day" which jerk is refering to.

The UW has two ranges of ip's

128.95 and 140.something

espically after the addition of win2000 there are dns servers all over that place.

but as far as the main ones, i think they have 3 128 dns servers and 3 140's

[R3C]

Ahh the good old days. Pulling stuff off of IRC to the shells, then upping it to BBSes for credit. Pulling stuff off the BBSes, and upping to the shells for IRC distribution. Fun Fun Fun and Phoenix WWWOOOOOOOOOOOO

Goren, Alfred, Stein, Saul, Becker, Homer, Mead...

I'm forgetting someone... Didn't Alfred get renamed and upgraded toward the end?

[McNevin]

Dante, Homer, Mead, Goodall, and Becker

Think saul went away... what was the irc server becker1 and becker2

i think that was the updated alfred? where did we do irc before that?

[McNevin]

alfred1.u.washington.edu that was irc was at first.

then they created becker1 and becker2 as the UW's game servers.

Irc was available at becker2.

Which server had the menu driven shell, where you would load pine from?

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

I barely even used them and I still remember the server names...

[R3C]

... Pine was run from Homer, Mead, and one other. I don't remember the name, but that's the one we used for that I think.