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.

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, he was having issues with the email address. I thought maybe it was a problem with DNS propogation.

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) 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.