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Craptacular
Due to a stupendous (yet totally predictable) fuckup on Verizon's behalf, our DSL has been down since about 16:30 EST, Saturday Jul 31, and is still down. They've been running in circles it seems trying to avoid actually fixing the problem.
Not having a warm fuzzy feeling that the ISP's update left on my voice mail ("Should be fixed [Wednesday] morning") I called up Time Warner cable at about 4 this afternoon, found out they had a $29/month special on Road Runner (cable modem service) and that I could get HBO for only $3 more, and I was sold. Picked up my modem in the Troy office around 6:30, had a SparcStation 10 rebuilt with OpenBSD 3.5 by 8pm, and we were running.
And Verizon wonders why they can't get any DSL marketshare.
So as we're running half-routed on the cable modem with a minimal set of services patched in, don't expect everything to work. I have mail working inbound and outbound; DNS is strung together with forwarders and static routes; the webserver is routed back through the cable firewall.
We'll probably be keeping the cable and DSL together which makes some interesting new configurations possible; should hopefully improve speeds for everyone.
