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Re: What should I change my DNS to?

From	Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.networking
Subject	Re: What should I change my DNS to?
Date	2016-09-07 03:29 +0000
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<20160906084938@news.eternal-september.org>, Roger Blake wrote:

]On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, F Volker wrote:

]I reside in a third world country within the SE Asia region. Power 
]outages are regular events. An UPS is essential and it's working as 
]expected. Connected to the UPS is a desktop computer, monitor and 
]router.

>> However, all my specific router configurations were gone (as someone
>> or something had re-set the router) and I had start all over again.

>It's not that unusual. I've seen this happen with power surges,
>sometimes for no apparent reason other than buggy firmware.

He's got an unidentified UPS for power, and that _should_ reduce the
chance of power-surges, etc.  I'm more concerned that the router may
be being reset to factory default, because every skript-kiddie in the
world knows it reverts to the admin:admin password pair.

Mind you, back in the mid 1970s, I was supporting some (US) FAA
experimental electronics at an airfield in California's Central Valley
about 75 miles / 120 km Southeast of San Francisco.  This was prime
farming country because it was/is irrigated from canals or deep wells.
This means honking BIG electrically powered pumps (100 HP = 75 KVA)
and when they were turned on, I swear you could see the power poles
vibrating from the surges.   Our equipment had "overkill" (for the
time) surge protection, LC filters, Metal Oxide Varistors, and such,
but I was still loosing one or two power supplies a month due to
surges.   We eventually added a set of Control Concepts "Isolatrols"
which were an active tracking power-line filter.  They weren't cheap
(US$275 in 1975 for a 115 VAC 15 Amp unit), but they completely
eliminated the surge problems.  In 1978, I bought two units for the
house (protecting the home entertainment stuff).   When we got our 
first home computer in 1981, I added another unit for that.  When we
bought additional computers in the mid-80s, we also added UPS units,
but I'm still using those Isolatrols to protect the UPSs.

        Old guy

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What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-06 06:32 +0700
  Re: What should I change my DNS to? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-06 03:35 +0000
    Re: What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-06 13:48 +0700
      Re: What should I change my DNS to? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-06 07:25 +0000
        Re: What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-06 14:53 +0700
          Re: What should I change my DNS to? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-06 09:40 +0000
          Re: What should I change my DNS to? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-06 10:35 +0000
            Re: What should I change my DNS to? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-06 11:09 +0000
            Re: What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-07 08:53 +0700
              Re: What should I change my DNS to? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-07 08:24 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 14:02 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-08 06:42 +0700
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-08 03:10 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-08 09:43 +0700
          Re: What should I change my DNS to?  (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-06 21:36 +0000
            Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 00:48 +0200
              Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-07 08:18 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 14:08 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-07 21:52 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-08 00:52 +0200
            Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-07 09:13 +0700
              Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 04:26 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-07 09:41 +0700
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 14:11 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-07 10:59 +0700
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-07 06:53 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-07 11:02 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 14:21 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-07 14:09 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 21:53 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-08 11:06 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-08 15:22 +0200
              Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-07 06:55 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-07 14:27 +0700
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-07 14:28 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-09-07 09:32 -0400
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-07 21:50 +0000
              Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-07 08:29 +0000
            Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-08 10:15 +0700
              Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-08 19:34 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-09 03:56 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-09 20:55 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-10 02:47 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-09-10 08:27 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? (combined response) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-10 22:53 +0000
      Re: What should I change my DNS to? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-06 13:35 +0200
        Re: What should I change my DNS to? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-09-06 14:06 +0200
          Re: What should I change my DNS to? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-06 14:27 +0200
            Re: What should I change my DNS to? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-06 13:03 +0000
              Re: What should I change my DNS to? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-06 17:01 +0200
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-06 16:25 +0000
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2016-09-06 21:37 +0300
                Re: What should I change my DNS to? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-09-06 23:42 +0200
        Re: What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-07 09:26 +0700
      Re: What should I change my DNS to? Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-09-06 12:54 +0000
        Re: What should I change my DNS to? F Volker <here@home.net> - 2016-09-07 09:28 +0700
          Re: What should I change my DNS to? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-09-07 08:25 +0000
        Re: What should I change my DNS to? Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2016-09-07 03:29 +0000

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