Hello BiKiKii Admin,

BiKiKii looks to be down:

% dig @ns1.dyndns.org. bikikii.ath.cx. +short
24.148.11.10

% telnet 24.148.11.10 25
Trying 24.148.11.10...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

% date -u
Mon Jan 29 05:35:52 UTC 2007

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, George Orwell wrote:
>Hello BiKiKii Admin,
>
>BiKiKii looks to be down:
>
>% dig @ns1.dyndns.org. bikikii.ath.cx. +short
>24.148.11.10
>
>% telnet 24.148.11.10 25
>Trying 24.148.11.10...
>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
>
>% date -u
>Mon Jan 29 05:35:52 UTC 2007
>

Was unable to do remote "kick-start".
Something happened at border.
Appears power line issue.
No IDS flags. "Deadman" was not tripped.

Ciao!

BiKiKii

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BiKiKii Admin wrote:

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> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, George Orwell wrote: 
>
> Was unable to do remote "kick-start".

Hmmm. What's your password? Maybe next time I can try from here.

<grin>

> Something happened at border.
> Appears power line issue.
> No IDS flags. "Deadman" was not tripped.

I remember back in my BBS SysOp days there use to exist a couple utils
that monitored a phone line for certain sequences of rings and
restarted a machine it they were present. You'd call a number, let it
ring twice, hang up, wait 1 minute, then call back and hang up after
three rings. All configurable within reason.

I wonder if there's no modern counterpart to this, or how involved it
would be to reliably monitor/log a modem, use cron to check for a
trigger file created by that daemon, and issue a 'shutdown -r now' or
whatever?

With some X10 trickery I'd imagine you could even reset routers.
switches. gateways, and such....

Just a thought. 

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