Re: The Internet

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From: Rob Scovell
Subject: Re: The Internet
Date: 20:21 on 14 Feb 2006
This reminds me of the day that IPv6 came to the rescue. I was working 
with 2 servers next to each other in a rack across the planet, using 
ssh. I was creating an IP alias using ifconfig ... and had a 'balding 
grey-haired moment' and forgot to put alias in the command. Killed my 
ssh connection and stuffed up IPv4 routes somehow. By a miracle, I 
suddenly thought 'IPv6' and got back in that way from the neighbouring 
server ... without that neighbouring server, would have been stuffed, 
and would have had to send client physically round to the rack to 
recover ... not good ...

On 15/02/2006, at 9:12 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

>     $ scp -p saigo.etla.org:bin/assimilate ~/bin
>     ssh: connect to host saigo.etla.org port 22: No route to host
>
>
> What do you mean "No route to host"?
> I'm only fucking logged in here from saigo.etla.org.
> There must be a route for that error message to have reached my 
> terminal.
>
> And attempting to route from 1 machine (in France) to another (also in 
> France)
> via Seattle (not in France, not even in Europe) considered, well, 
> brain dead.
>
> Please just be working. Thanks in advance.
>
> Nicholas Clark
>
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