What's on Your Mind

[LJay]

Oh go ahead @"InbetweenDreams." You are a polite sort of fellow and not likely to intentionally offend someone here. May be that we need the stimulation.

[InbetweenDreams]

Oh go ahead @"InbetweenDreams."  You are a polite sort of fellow and not likely to intentionally offend someone here.  May be that we need the stimulation.

Thanks and I try to be more careful about how I go about saying what I need to say... I do worry what the conversation might become and I worry that such topics could upset certain members. But, I guess I'll bite... I suppose the worst that could happen is having Andy remove the thread, which I really hope doesn't happen. Hopefully, I am just overthinking it. At any rate once I collect my thoughts, get some coffee in me I'll bite lol. Definitely want to be a little more careful how I write it....


In other news. I woke up to the internet being out...or was it?

I check my phone notice it has the "!" next to the wifi, get on the computer and sure enough no internet. Somehow the VPN connection to work is working fine...how can this be? So I check a few things look at the access log for my webserver and there's still traffic, how can this be? Well, from that I suspected my ISP's DNS servers are down and popped Google's DNS in (one of which is 8.8.8.8) and sure enough I have internet again. Just bizarre and dealing with it before I have my coffee....at 5:45 AM.

[ceez]

Oh go ahead @"InbetweenDreams."  You are a polite sort of fellow and not likely to intentionally offend someone here.  May be that we need the stimulation.

Thanks and I try to be more careful about how I go about saying what I need to say... I do worry what the conversation might become and I worry that such topics could upset certain members. But, I guess I'll bite... I suppose the worst that could happen is having Andy remove the thread, which I really hope doesn't happen. Hopefully, I am just overthinking it. At any rate once I collect my thoughts, get some coffee in me I'll bite lol. Definitely want to be a little more careful how I write it....


In other news. I woke up to the internet being out...or was it?

I check my phone notice it has the "!" next to the wifi, get on the computer and sure enough no internet. Somehow the VPN connection to work is working fine...how can this be? So I check a few things look at the access log for my webserver and there's still traffic, how can this be? Well, from that I suspected my ISP's DNS servers are down and popped Google's DNS in (one of which is 8.8.8.8) and sure enough I have internet again. Just bizarre and dealing with it before I have my coffee....at 5:45 AM.

I have the same thing happen with my internet when my vpn is on, but I'm way to far out of practice to try to find out what is going on

[InbetweenDreams]

@ceez Well I knew something was weird because if the internet is actually down then you can't route traffic anywhere...but the fact I was still remoted into my office but nothing else was working I knew it was probably DNS related. The odd thing is I had to put the 8.8.8.8 on my router, putting it on my PC didn't work for whatever reason. That and my website was still accessible to the outside...

VPN's can be a little tricky. If this is something like Nord VPN might be a matter of tweaking their software but I've been using OpenVPN and on the VPN server you can choose to "push" DNS so you can pass DNS queries through the VPN, useful if you want to resolve domain names to the other side like at work I can find other computers and workstations, active directory and so on.....or "push" gateway if you want to route all internet traffic through the VPN which is basically what you're doing when you're on something like Nord or PIA. I had a lot of learning and figuring out stuff back in march when all the COVID stuff started. Plus I had to manually enter all the routes to all the VLANs and so on, it's neat.

[Meebs]

The last year has been really rough for me. (Nothing to do with coronavirus) Family deaths. Cancer etc. Sometimes I just have really sad moments. Tonight is one of those nights.

[InbetweenDreams]

The last year has been really rough for me. (Nothing to do with coronavirus) Family deaths. Cancer etc. Sometimes I just have really sad moments. Tonight is one of those nights.

I'm here if you ever need to talk to someone.

[InbetweenDreams]

Well it looks like I might have ran off another one, too early to tell though.

[ceez]

I hope you're feeling better @Meebs

And don't worry @InbetweenDreams I haven't even had the chance to run one off yet.
#closetlife #drunk #do people still use#
#bring back #

[Emiliano]

Who knows? I try very hard not to spend too much time being aware of my thoughts these days

[ceez]

Who knows? I try very hard not to spend too much time being aware of my thoughts these days

Me too, that's why I'm drunk at the moment