Bear Flag Blog

Well, it looks like republic.org is finally back on the 'net. We were living in a corporate apartment for the month of July, and then although the FiOS got turned on promptly at our house in the beginning of August, it took a few weeks and a fair amount of trial-and-error to figure out how to configure the FiOS router to properly handle my static IP address(es).

And once the networking was resolved, of course, republic.org itself freaked out, necessitating the painful spinning back up of my Linux-fu. She'd come up, appear to be working, and then a few hours later the machine would simply hang. The log files revealed nothing, but when I'd reboot the machine would not recognize /dev/eth0, the onboard ethernet port. Try again the following day, the whole saga would repeat.

At the moment it appears that the problem was... the ethernet cable. Yes, I switched the little piece of Cat-5 between the router and the server (which tells you how far down the troubleshooting list of possibilities I had gone) and republic.org has been up without problems for several days now. WTF? I don't know. But here's hoping.