Re: Gborg down?

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> I've posted details to the FreeBSD -stable and -current mailing list,
>>> but the simple summary is that 'ifconfig <dev> -alias' with no ip
>>> specific'd literally erases all IPs on that device, leaving the
>>> server running 'un-networked' ... :(
>>>
>> Good lord.
>
>
> Ya well, its not something I'm particularly proud about ...
>
> Stupid question for someone running Linux ... is this standard behaviour
> that I've been lucky never to hit before, or is this something that
> Linux deals with slightly more intelligently?

I used to have a script on my remote server that I was running in BG before
to touch the network, that script was bringing up the network if was down
for more then 2 minutes. My server is now hosted in my house and I do not
need it anymore, I changed it with the no-ip script :-)

Regards
Gaetano Mendola