nick hates software: The Internet

• From: Nicholas Clark
  Date: 20:12 on 14 Feb 2006
  Subject: The Internet
  
      $ 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
  
  

• From: Rob Scovell
  Date: 20:21 on 14 Feb 2006
  Subject: Re: The Internet
  
  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
  >
  ---
  Rob Scovell
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  Hamilton 2001
  New Zealand
  
  NZ phone: 07 853 9143
  UK phone: 0845 229 2290/7025
  
  
  

• From: Nicholas Clark
  Date: 20:24 on 14 Feb 2006
  Subject: Re: The Internet
  
  On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:21:13AM +1300, Rob Scovell wrote:
  > This reminds me of the day that IPv6 came to the rescue. I was working 
  
  Oh, I'm hating IPv6 too. It's all broken. 65% packet loss and up to 15 second
  ping times between two machines over IPv6, whereas IPv4 is working just fine.
  
  Nicholas Clark
  
  

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