21-Apr-2015

Lost connection – again
This morning, none of the sites were accessible: the router didn’t respond at all. Luckily, I could access the router, and found that Diana, the main server, was connected and up and running. So I enabled SSH and could access the machine; WASD logs showed no reason of failure, but there was no access after 03:00 or thereabout. Accessing the logs using the external name however worked like a charm, so there is something else going on. It might have been an overload: Previously, some heavy access (POST to the blog login screen – which will fail at all times) and meny accesses on HyperReader, each from one addres, caused me to change the configuration logs so any attempt to connect will now fail.
After this change, all worked like it should. So it wasn’t WASD or Diana causing trouble. The event l,og of the router did show a reason:
21.04.15 03:05:19 The service provider successfully updated the firmware for this device.
21.04.15 03:05:15 The system time was updated successfully by time server 192.168.0.200.
21.04.15 03:05:14 IPv6 prefix obtained successfully. New prefix: 2001:980:ef9c::/48
21.04.15 03:05:14 IPv6 Internet connection established successfully. IP address: 2001:980:ef9c::1
21.04.15 03:05:14 Internet connection established successfully. IP address: 82.161.236.244, DNS server: 194.109.6.66 and 194.109.9.99, Gateway: 194.109.5.175, Broadband PoP: dr11.d12
21.04.15 03:05:05 Partition mounted in Freecom-DataBarUSB2-0-01
21.04.15 03:04:50 USB device 2002, class "USB 2.0 (full-speed) storage", plugged in

The router was restarted after a firmware update was installed – WITHOUT WARNING.
To get to know this, you actually need to log into the router – there is no external log… Nor is it possible to block unwanted networks. Hopefully, I’ll get my Draytek back soon – or a replacement.