Ever on and on

The embedded web server on the VZ FiOS d-link box sucks. That’s all there is too it. I’m polling it every 10 minutes to check the IP address, and it consistently locks up in less than an hour. Every. Single. Time.

The only way to reset the Web server, that I’ve found, is to power-cycle the box. This has a nice symmetry, because power-cycling the d-link gets you a new PPPoE tunnel which gets you a new IP address. But it’s unacceptable that VZ can change my public IP address when the d-link web server is locked up, and I won’t know it.

At least it’s only the web server that locks up, the d-link keeps forwarding packets.

So what are the choices?
1. Restart the d-link every hour - impractical
2. Rewrite script to use http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/checkip.html - works, but not very elegant
3. Turn off the d-link and bring the PPPoE tunnel all the way to my Linux box

Stay tuned.

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