ISP connection just drops

eville84 · #1 28th March 2006, 06:32 PM

hi everyone

Last night Fedora just dropped it's Internet connection for no reason that i can figure out. I phoned my ISP and they claim that they did not disconnect me. I'm running an ADSL connection with a static ip. When i just activated the connection again it re-connected fine and has been up since. Here is the log file from when it went down:

Mar 27 22:21:58 localhost pppd[1813]: No response to 3 echo-requests
Mar 27 22:21:58 localhost pppd[1813]: Serial link appears to be disconnected.
Mar 27 22:21:58 localhost NET[3415]: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post : updated /etc/resolv.conf
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppoe[1814]: Session 7372 terminated -- received PADT from peer
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppoe[1814]: Sent PADT
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppd[1813]: Modem hangup
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppd[1813]: Connection terminated.
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppd[1813]: Connect time 23508.4 minutes.
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppd[1813]: Sent 823254746 bytes, received 270303367 bytes.
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppd[1813]: Connect time 23508.4 minutes.
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppd[1813]: Sent 823254746 bytes, received 270303367 bytes.
Mar 27 22:22:00 localhost pppd[1813]: Exit.
Mar 27 22:38:44 localhost named[20777]: no longer listening on 69.xx.xx.xx#53
Mar 28 02:37:38 localhost stunnel[5854]: stunnel 4.04 on i686-pc-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005
Mar 28 02:37:38 localhost stunnel[5854]: FD_SETSIZE=16384, file ulimit=1024 -> 500 clients allowed

Does this look like a problen with my OS or a problem with my ISP? Is there anyway that i can configure Fedora to automatically re-activate this ADSL connection when ever it is terminated?

eville84 · #2 29th March 2006, 06:17 PM

does anyone have any idea? i've tried searching the forum and google

jhetrick62 · #3 30th March 2006, 03:48 AM

It isn't really a problem till it keeps happening.

eville84 · #4 30th March 2006, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jhetrick62

It isn't really a problem till it keeps happening.

Is this really acting like a responsible system admin? I have lots of sites running on this server. I do have to sleep and cant monitor the server 24/7. From my experiences with computers since i started, any problem that i have seen occur once, will happen again without applying a solution to that problem.

To me it seems like there is an easy solution to this. set up a chron job that checks for a connection ever so many hours and if it see it broken it will run a script to re-connect. i just have no clue how to set this up. I'm pretty sure some system admin out there has this set up configured.

jhetrick62 · #5 31st March 2006, 12:40 AM

Well, if it only happened once, it could have been a freak thing by your provider. Now if this is more than a personal server, then there must be someone that could help you write that.

Jeff

eville84 · #6 31st March 2006, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jhetrick62

Well, if it only happened once, it could have been a freak thing by your provider. Now if this is more than a personal server, then there must be someone that could help you write that.

Jeff

It is a business server. We are a hosting company and have just started with our new server. We dont have a large budget. And guess who the Sys-Admin is? Me!! I just thought that someone may know of a pre-written script that performs this action.