[Info-vax] Hoffman Labs is back

[P. Sture]

In article <4x84l.11608$be.3769 at nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>,
 Michael Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> wrote:

> P. Sture wrote:
> > In article 
> > <c929427f-f289-4955-b83d-8d6c074f5fc7 at b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> >  IanMiller <gxys at uk2.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 22 Dec, 08:57, "johnhreinha... at yahoo.com"
> >> <johnhreinha... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>> As of late on Sunday 21-Dec-2008 the Hoffman Labs V2 (http://
> >>> 64.223.189.234) site is back online.
> >>
> >> Hurrah! :-)
> >>
> >> Now when are you going to get a domain name pointing that IP address?
> > 
> > The numeric IP address does have a couple of advantages though:
> > 
> > o - no problems with the DNS nasties
> > o - you get folks to bookmark your site
> 
> but only works if it a static IP address.  I use standard dynamic IP DSL 
> with zoneedit.com - even have a php/com script that runs every 5 minutes 
> to check and update if necessary on my vms7.3-2 box.
> 
> I use DSL because while cable-modems may be faster, they are much more 
> unreliable.
> 

It depends on your ISP. I've been using cable since late 2005 and it has 
been very reliable. I had an outage last Monday for about 3 hours, and 
apart from the odd power cut, that's been only the second or third one 
(that I've noticed).

And I've been sitting on the same DHCP IP address since somewhere 
between 17-Aug-2007 and 24-Aug-2007 :-)

-- 
Paul Sture