Our Internets were broken last night. The problems started around 7 pm and lasted (probably) around 8 am this morning. I think the problem was around (either) Aliant’s gateway(s) or DNS server(s): logging in went fine. After login, the proper IP addresses were assigned but pinging the outside world always ended with the dreaded ‘host not found’. With luck sometimes ‘request time out’. Initially, I was blaming the firewall(s) [sofware and hardware], but after plugging those out, the same observations were made: ‘host not found’ or ‘request time out’ messages. A call to Aliant’s service line brought me as far as a message on tape saying that ‘there were connection issues in all 4 Atlantic provinces’. What took them so long? Note, that nothing has been mentioned on Aliant’s network status page, a page that appears to be stuck with a message from the 15th of August, saying that we customers should be aware of a virus. No really. Aliant’s administrators should have a blog. That be interesting for a change.
So, I ended up watching 2 of the 3 ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies. I haven’t decided yet if I should be watching the third one. After seeing the movies for the umpth time, I keep wondering why Aragon chooses Arwen instead of (what’s her name again). I mean, elvens are boring, because of the fact that they are inmortal (that is unless they haven’t died by the sword naturally) aren’t they? Just as boring as watching older movies over and over again, because the Internets are broken. We need a spare internet.