Of which I may be one. Let me tell you of my adventures.

About 2:30 this AM, during the rainstorm, I completely lost my Cox cable 
internet connection. All of the lights on the modem went out except the 
first two. Later, like 5:00 AM, the modem was back doing it's happy 
blinky-blinky, but things had gotten weird. My internet access was way 
slow, and access to many pages just timed out, although I checked, and I 
was not just accessing cached pages, I could access other pages, slowly. 
But heres the strangest thing. I was receiving e-mails just fine, but 
could not send one. I could ping my POP server, but not my SMTP server. 
I also could not ping Cox, or even my own website.

So I called customer service, got escalated from level one to level two, 
and eventually had to leave for work. Came home tonight, called Cox 
back, and after several misadventures in customer service, got hold of 
another level 2 guy, who really wanted to help, and tried, but could not 
because it's Linux. Not supported. He was able to tell me, though, that 
he could ping my modem, he could read my card, but he could not ping my 
computer.

Well, that was a clue, anyway. I tried the traditional tricks of 
rebooting the pc, unplugging and resetting the modem, reconfiguring my 
internet connection. Buzzard luck. Then, a dim memory of the ancient 
horrors of Corel Linux came to me, and I knew- somehow, some way, DHCPCD 
was borked and needed nudging.

Man DHCPCD. Hm. -k looks like a good switch to start with. Purge the 
cache and see if we can start anew. No luck, still the bad connection. 
Man DHCPCD. -D, forces DHCPCD to set the domain name of the host to the 
name supplied by the server. Could it be? DHCPCD -k again, then DHCPCD -D.

Eureka! Instant internet connection.

I am saving this e-mail as a "note to self" in case it happens again.


-- 


Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com


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