Yikes! My Internet connection has been down for 24 hours and it's caused me all sorts of grief. First on the list is the fact that my phone is a VoIP phone so not only was I without Internet service I was without a phone. Sure, the failover worked fine transferring the calls to my cell phone when it detected there was no Internet connection but my cell phone rates are considerably higher than my VoIP phone rates so it was a bit of a hassle.

The other big hassle was the fact that my webserver and mailserver where tied to the dynamic address so when I finally came back up I ended up with a different IP address. That's going to mean a bunch of DNS changes before everything is back to normal. The fact that my ISP, Shaw Cable, caches their DNS records means that the exercise will likely spread over the next few hours. I make a change and have to wait to see if the problem is fixed. Bummer!

Anyhow..., I'm moving before too long and I'm going to seriously look at static IPs. No more of this monkeying around with dynamic IPs. They're nothing but a pain in the posterior.

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