It's round two for me at my home with more electrical work to be done, this means another outage of the fsxNet systems I am running.

Expect things to close down from some time later tonight (my Wednesday) and be down for up to 24 hours.

Impacted systems

21:1/100
21:4/100
21:1/10
news.bbs.nz
..also seems DNS for fsxnet.nz may be impacted although I'd thought the other name server would have picked up those duties... hmm

I'll try and post here before I pull the plug this evening.

it's now 8.50am Wed local time, I won't get to this until sometime after 6pm tonight.

Best, Paul

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Hello Avon!

31 Jul 24 08:51, you wrote to all:

..also seems DNS for fsxnet.nz may be impacted although I'd thought
the other name server would have picked up those duties... hmm

The secondary should handle them fine. It's up and running, and the zone file was updated at 7:50am local today with serial '2023004900'



Vorlon


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On 31 Jul 2024 at 09:51a, Vorlon pondered and said...

the other name server would have picked up those duties... hmm

The secondary should handle them fine. It's up and running, and the zone file was updated at 7:50am local today with serial '2023004900'

I'm glad you replied (thanks!)

Interestingly the fsxnet.nz domain was not resolvable during the outage and I'd thought because of the second name server all would have been OK?

I'm wondering if somewhere I may need to check I have the correct IP set up for NS2?

From memory it changed at one stage...

feel free to netmail/email further if you want to chat 1-1 but it would be good to understand what's up there.

In about 7-9 hours we'll be back in my second (and hopefully) final power outage. So I'll guess we'll know then too :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Hello Avon!

31 Jul 24 13:46, you wrote to me:

The secondary should handle them fine. It's up and running, and
the zone file was updated at 7:50am local today with serial
'2023004900'

Interestingly the fsxnet.nz domain was not resolvable during the
outage and I'd thought because of the second name server all would
have been OK?

I would have though so as well.

I'm wondering if somewhere I may need to check I have the correct IP
set up for NS2?

You have the correct IP.

In about 7-9 hours we'll be back in my second (and hopefully) final
power outage. So I'll guess we'll know then too :)

My testing from three remote systems show's it's responding to requests and resolving host names.
On both IPv4 & IPv6.


admin@shadow:~/ $> host vger.fsxnet.nz ns2.fsxnet.nz
Using domain server:
Name: ns2.fsxnet.nz
Address: 119.42.53.118#53

vger.fsxnet.nz has IPv6 address 2a01:4f9:c010:1eca::1


vorlon@emu68k:~/ host tfb.fsxnet.nz ns2.fsxnet.nz
Using domain server:
Name: ns2.fsxnet.nz
Address: 2404:9400:325e:9e00:f1d0:3:633:280#53

tfb.fsxnet.nz has address 14.201.8.172


vk3heg@HP:~$ host agency.fsxnet.nz ns2.fsxnet.nz
Using domain server:
Name: ns2.fsxnet.nz
Address: 119.42.53.118#53
Aliases:

agency.fsxnet.nz has address 103.193.138.76
agency.fsxnet.nz has IPv6 address 2407:8b00:1169:900::100






Vorlon


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Re: Another Outage (Thur 1 Aug)
By: Vorlon to Avon on Wed Jul 31 2024 09:51 am

Howdy,

..also seems DNS for fsxnet.nz may be impacted although I'd thought
the other name server would have picked up those duties... hmm

The secondary should handle them fine. It's up and running, and the zone file was updated at 7:50am local today with serial '2023004900'

Something is not happy...

[deon@vps-7c13b6c6 ~]$ host ns2.fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[deon@vps-7c13b6c6 ~]$ host ns1.fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[deon@vps-7c13b6c6 ~]$ host -t ns fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached



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My testing from three remote systems show's it's responding to requests and resolving host names.
On both IPv4 & IPv6.

I don't know if you are checking it while he is up or while he is down but at this moment he is down and possumso.fsxnet.nz is not resolving.

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On 31 Jul 2024 at 11:10p, deon pondered and said...

Re: Another Outage (Thur 1 Aug)
By: Vorlon to Avon on Wed Jul 31 2024 09:51 am

Howdy,

..also seems DNS for fsxnet.nz may be impacted although I'd though the other name server would have picked up those duties... hmm

The secondary should handle them fine. It's up and running, and the zon file was updated at 7:50am local today with serial '2023004900'

Something is not happy...

[deon@vps-7c13b6c6 ~]$ host ns2.fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[deon@vps-7c13b6c6 ~]$ host ns1.fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[deon@vps-7c13b6c6 ~]$ host -t ns fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

I'm back up now but also could not resolve fsxnet.nz while I was down.. hmm

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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On 31 Jul 2024 at 08:51a, Avon pondered and said...

It's round two for me at my home with more electrical work to be done, this means another outage of the fsxNet systems I am running.

Expect things to close down from some time later tonight (my Wednesday) and be down for up to 24 hours.

Impacted systems

21:1/100
21:4/100
21:1/10
news.bbs.nz
..also seems DNS for fsxnet.nz may be impacted although I'd thought the other name server would have picked up those duties... hmm

I'll try and post here before I pull the plug this evening.

it's now 8.50am Wed local time, I won't get to this until sometime after 6pm tonight.

Best, Paul

the outage has ended and all systems should be back up..

now 6.18pm Thur my local time

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Welcome back. ;)


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Hello Avon!

01 Aug 24 18:18, you wrote to deon:

as intodns.com sees it, either your glue records or NS records are not correct. Glue records are A records that the registrar hosts for you so that when they state 'your nameservers are ns1 and ns2 in your domain', the client is given the IP addresses for them, since they are in the same domain as the requested domain.

Good luck,
regards,
Floris


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On 01 Aug 2024 at 07:44a, Blue White pondered and said...

Welcome back. ;)

thanks nice to be here.

The power cuts related to an electrician coming in to wire up new circuits for a new hot water supply to the house...

It was just easier to shutter everything the night before and the restart when I got home the following day.

We now have a new (non leaking and working) hot water cylinder which is always a good thing :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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On 01 Aug 2024 at 07:54p, Floris van Unen pondered and said...

as intodns.com sees it, either your glue records or NS records are not correct. Glue records are A records that the registrar hosts for you so that when they state 'your nameservers are ns1 and ns2 in your domain', the client is given the IP addresses for them, since they are in the
same domain as the requested domain.

Good luck,
regards,
Floris

thanks Floris and thanks also to Deon and Vorlon... yep glue records for a NS were incorrect I am hopeful this may have now been fixed but it may take a few hours to promulgate and perhaps I should do a test and down the NS I run to make sure :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Re: Re: Another Outage (Thur 1 Aug)
By: Avon to Blue White on Fri Aug 02 2024 09:06 am

We now have a new (non leaking and working) hot water cylinder which is always a good thing :)

Yep. :)
Did you consider a tankless one? I think those look pretty cool - No need for a big tank/cylinder, and it heats water on-the-fly.

Nightfox
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On 01 Aug 2024 at 03:09p, Nightfox pondered and said...

We now have a new (non leaking and working) hot water cylinder which always a good thing :)

Yep. :)
Did you consider a tankless one? I think those look pretty cool - No
need for a big tank/cylinder, and it heats water on-the-fly.

We ended up going for one with a heat pump that sits atop of the cylinder... the COP is around 4.5 so 1kw in generates around 4.5kw of heat. It was more expensive to get but should save $$ over the life of the unit.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Hi Blue white,

On Wednesday July 31 2024, Blue White said to Vorlon:

My testing from three remote systems show's it's responding to requests
and resolving host names.
On both IPv4 & IPv6.

I don't know if you are checking it while he is up or while he is down
but at this moment he is down and possumso.fsxnet.nz is not resolving.

I was checking with ns2 directly. The issue of nothing resolving has now
also been fixed!.. So on Avon's next outage, everything should (Fingers crossed) work. #-)

\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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Hi Deon,

On Wednesday July 31 2024, Deon said to Vorlon:

The secondary should handle them fine. It's up and running, and the zone
file was updated at 7:50am local today with serial '2023004900'

Something is not happy...

[deon@vps-7c13b6c6 ~]$ host ns2.fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached [deon@vps-7c13b6c6
~]$ host ns1.fsxnet.nz
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached [deon@vps-7c13b6c6

As as you now know that something has been poked and probed into working.
#-;


\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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Hi Floris,

On Thursday August 01 2024, Floris Van Unen said to Avon:

as intodns.com sees it, either your glue records or NS records are not correct. Glue records are A records that the registrar hosts for you
so that when they state 'your nameservers are ns1 and ns2 in your domain', the client is given the IP addresses for them, since they are
in the same domain as the requested domain.

The ofending party has been put to bed, and given a stern talking to. They promis to keep better track of things in the future and the next outage shouldn't cause things to break and fall on the floor.

But yes the glue records at the register had wrong data. #-;


\/orlon
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Stephen

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Re: Re: Another Outage (Thur 1 Aug)
By: Nightfox to Avon on Thu Aug 01 2024 03:09 pm

Did you consider a tankless one? I think those look pretty cool - No need for a big tank/cylinder, and it heats water on-the-fly.

When I remodeled my kitchen, I replaced an older tank heater (was taking up room in my kitchen cabinetry, which made no sense...) with a tankless heater.

Pros: Lots of hot water

Cons: Lots of hot water - my kids started taking longer showers when they didn't run out of hot water like they did with the tank heater.

Needs flushing - my water is particularly hard, I flush my system every 6 months. The process isn't that difficult, you fill a bucket with cleaning solution (or vinegar in a pinch), insert an immersion pump in the bucket, flip two valves to isolate the water supply, then turn on the pump and let it run. After about 20 minutes, replace the solution with water and flush the system.

It's easier than it sounds. If you have a full-house water filtration/softening system, you can do this once a year.
They don't solve the issue of long waits for water to heat up at long pipe runs, but there is a way to make water recirculate through the hot water pipes to keep hot water at the tap. We have about a 90 second warm-up time on our downstairs bathroom, I'm considering it.
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On 03 Aug 2024 at 05:46p, Vorlon pondered and said...

But yes the glue records at the register had wrong data. #-;

Thanks everyone for spotting this, yep should be sorted now, a recent test saw things still running. phew :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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I was checking with ns2 directly. The issue of nothing resolving has
now
also been fixed!.. So on Avon's next outage, everything should
(Fingers
crossed) work. #-)

Good deal! ;)



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