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From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: Gborg down?
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:44:37 +0100
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
 >
 >>
 >>>
 >>> I've posted details to the FreeBSD -stable and -current mailing list,
 >>> but the simple summary is that 'ifconfig <dev> -alias' with no ip
 >>> specific'd literally erases all IPs on that device, leaving the
 >>> server running 'un-networked' ... :(
 >>>
 >> Good lord.
 >
 >
 > Ya well, its not something I'm particularly proud about ...
 >
 > Stupid question for someone running Linux ... is this standard behaviour
 > that I've been lucky never to hit before, or is this something that
 > Linux deals with slightly more intelligently?

I used to have a script on my remote server that I was running in BG before
to touch the network, that script was bringing up the network if was down
for more then 2 minutes. My server is now hosted in my house and I do not
need it anymore, I changed it with the no-ip script :-)



Regards
Gaetano Mendola