[lug] attbi troubles

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 12-06 13:14, Jeff wrote:
> Nope.  Mine went just fine.  I noticed teh lights on my cable modem on
> Tue night and booted into winbloz and wrote all of the information
> down.  Rebooted into linux and BOOM!  Back in biz.  Although their DNS
> is a bit screwy.  with @home, I could do an nslookup on my machine name
> and find out the IP.  With attbi, I havne't been able to do that...yet. 
> Also, I've noticed that the network pukes for a bit from time to time. 
> For example, I leave my mail open.  I've noticed that when I'm gone most
> of the day, I'll come home and Netscape can't find the mail server for
> about 1 hour.  This never happened with with @home.

I was having the same DNS troubles you describe - it was very intermittent.
It was getting extremely annoying. Annoying enough for me to put in a
cache-only DNS server on my machine. That helped a lot. Addresses that
resolved before (such as mail server, google.com, you know, stuff that
should work. :)) were resolving maybe 75% of the time, and gagging the other
25% of the time.  That's no good. The DNS server helped out quite a bit,
IMHO.
 

> Ken Weinert wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, my transition last night didn't go well - in fact, it didn't go at
> > all.
> > 
> > Therefore, I spent about 30 minutes online with a tech guy (with about
> > a 30 minute wait to get to him :)
> > 
> > So, since I'm at work, I haven't actually tried this yet, but here's
> > some info I thought I'd pass along.
> > 
> > 1) You need to change/remove the old @home machine name
> > 
> > 2) you *might* need to go to sas.r4.attbi.com to register your
> > modem. I'm thinking that in the transition they somehow got some
> > database info hosed in my case. There you'll need your account number
> > and mac address (the registration code is the last 9 of your account
> > #)
> > 
> > 3) he said that (unlike @home) IPs will change every 24 hours. I'm
> > presuming he means that IPs will have an enforced 24 hour lease.
> > 
> > 4) after doing the above, there should be some info at
> > http://www.newuser.attbi.com, but that's only reachable from the attbi
> > network (according the tech, Michael.)
> > 
> > Hope your transition went easier than mine.
> > 
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