On June 28, 2003 08:59 pm, Steve Cox - dig wrote:
>
> Oh I wish we had that kind of service here in South Africa. At very best
> our telco lets the line stay up 24hours then dropps it. Sometimes you get
> to keep the same ip, mostly not though. To top it off they are busy fixing
> a piece of cable on my line, so at the moment my line drops between 6 ~ 10
> times a day. We only have a single land line operator monopoly here os
> unfortunately its a bit of a dictation from them what they want you to get.
> The php redirect I got right. Its not for a commercial website, just my own
> for notes & stuff & practising new technoques. Check out www.dig.co.za &
> you will see it redirect nicely now with this bit of code:
>
> The uploadip is created from my existing cron job and uploaded to my hosted
> out domain www.dig.co.za automatically if the ip changes.
>
> <?php
> $shellcommand = `cat files/uploadip`;
> system($shellcommand);
> header("Location: http://$shellcommand";);
> ?>
>
> Regards
> Steve Cox
Yikes!
It sounds like the South African telco either has more customers than
facilities or someone, somewhere, decided that it's much better to waste
switch and adsl processing time checking to see how long you've been there.
Which surprises me cause it's a waste of resources and can do nasty things to
the switching.
Not to put too fine a point on it, it also seems that someone needs to learn
to splice a cable. That sort of thing, even when we were a monopoly, would
have landed someone in serious trouble.
I understand your problem now. Short of shooting the "people" in charge of
your upgrade and wondering why anyone would waste switching resources, I
think you need to keep doing what you're doing.
ttfn
John (appalled Telco type)
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