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Posted by: memorex

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The Evocash Website has been offline today for urgent repairs.
This was not a planned maintenance session but an unforeseen telecommunications equipment failure.
We apologize for this unplanned downtime but our programmers can do nothing until the communications company delivered the replacement equipment that is required for the repairs. We have received some of the equipment and are awaiting the final delivery to complete repairs. Our engineers are working flat out to get the repairs completed.
We would like to apologize for any delays you and our exchangers have experienced in funding their accounts and hope it has not causing you too many problems.
It would help us if you would not write and ask what the problem is because obviously this has affected our mail servers as well and for the time being we cannot reply.

Regards

Evocash

Posted by: awty

Was back up and working as of yesterday. Attributed to communications equipment. I've seen a lot of these over time. One of the most interesting conversations that I've had with an AT&T service tech was about how fibers get cut. Apparently, it happens quite often in the midwest when dead livestock have been buried, and the underground line gets cut while burying the carcass. Sounds strange, but I've dealt with quite a few that happened just that way!

Jeff

Posted by: neo

Another interesting problem that has occured with equiptment these last weeks is the routers falling over.

With the increase traffic because of worms and virus' of the last 2 weeks, some routers that were already heavily loaded began clogging up and some 'fell over' thus requiring the backbone providers to add more equiptment.

One solution done by the cable ISPs (eg optus, cox) is to block the port used by these worms. Of course the cable providers claim they are doing it for our benifit, but in reality it is to decrease the overall traffic through their systems. Each segment&node of the cable network is sized based on stats and these worms upset the balance and cause many nodes &/or segments to be overloaded and could bring the cable network to their knees in a worse case situation.

So when the cable company says they are blocking ports (ie reducing your service) for our benifit, just ignore the b/s and know its because they don't want to install the necessary equiptment.

I had to allocate more buffer space to an incoming bridge/router just because of the increased UDP traffic, even though it was being block by the firewall on the other side of the bridge/router

Posted by: awty

Neo - sounds like you're MUCH deeper into networking than I ever got, and know good and well how things are handled. Thank you for the info. I was THINKING that Cox (Cable) could have handled the situation, just chose not to, easier to just shut off the traffic...
Jeff