I didn't do much today.

I reconfigured the network interfaces in the servers remotely, since the ip address on the network card in the gateway machine was set to a broadcast address, that explained why I was getting "netowrk unreachable" errors when I tried to configure my interfaces with the correct subnet mask.

Once that was done, I found that dns was working between the machines again, I would have put it down to a broadcast address issue (the fact that some machines had a subnet of 255.255.255.224, and the broadcast being .31, and other machines had subnet 255.255.255.0, with broadcast of .255) but the problem was occuring before that situation occured.

I started looking into the commands I would need to put into the ras. I think I just need to try configuring it, in which case I need it switched on. I left it turned off after rack mounting all the gear.

My mate I got to dinner with called me, wanting to know if he could have an email address, and I said that the server wasn't configured yet, and that I would call him later.

I got the mail server working, sent some test mail, it seemed ok.

I watched some tv.

I called my mate, told him his new email address. While I was on the phone, it started mucking around, and dropping out. I had to hold the cable from the phone to the handset in just the right place for it to work. It's faulty where it goes into the handset.

I got off the phone, and tried to see if I could fix the handset. The stupid things are clipped together, and it got all burred while I tried to get it apart.

I couldn't see anything wrong, I would thing the cable has just got pulled around and damaged.

I put it back together, tested it, it was no better, and now the speaker was rattling.

I got fed up, and I snapped the handset in half, it felt good, nice bit of stress releif.

Now I need a new phone.

I remembered that I had an old cordless phone somewhere, that hasn't been used for years.

I pulled it out. The adapter wasn't with it. It wants 9v, I found an 8v 100mA adapter that fit, it seemed to work.

I plugged it into charge.

I went down to the shops, bought some Coke and a chocolate bar. I thought about taking my bag, and doing some proper shopping, but the bag is still full of stuff I bought at the fair last weekend CDs, cases etc) and I really couldn't be bothered. I'll go tomorrow.

I had a drink, and ate some chocolate while I watched Tron that I only bought like a month ago.

About halfway through, my mate called me on my mobile.

While trying to answer it, I had to find pause on the remote, then pickup the phone, in the process I almost knocked my glass off the table, and I sent screws flying everywhere.

My mate was having issues with the email address. I thought maybe it was a problem with DNS propogation. I told him to try connecting via the IP address when he got back on the net.

When I had a look, it seemed that the mail server was refusing connections on port 110. I restarted qmail, and it started working again. Hmm, I'll have to keep an eye on that.

After fiddling around for an hour with the configuration (because qmail refuses to deliver mail to root by default) I went back to watching the movie.

I put it on again with commentary, and went to bed. I fell asleep before the end, woke up at the end, and turned the dvd player and tv off.