I'd never needed to use ddclient (a dynamic DNS updater) before. My residential Comcast connection was down long enough that they moved the subnet we were on. I'd been running servers at home for over a decade when I left the country in the mid-2000s. Sometimes with a Unix-based computer looses power, the disks need repair. Sometimes when a router looses power, the settings get jumbled. $ internet-up-summary.sh /var/log/internet-up.log.1.gzĭo you have a UPS sufficient to keep all equipment necessary working through small, 30min, outages? I asked my neighbor and she said the computer is still on, though she couldn't tell what it was doing, and I very highly doubt a power outage occurred (never had any issues with the PC randomly rebooting/shutting down either.though I can't rule it out obviously.)Ģ) Is there any way I can at least check if the PC is running?ģ) Do I have any method of re-connecting?Ĥ) Can I minimize the chances of this happening next vacation?Ĭomcast has mini-outages all the time. My modem is still running (xFinity app shows it working and I can ping my IP address), and I don't think my IP changed since Shelly gives different responses with the right and wrong port numbers. PuTTY gives a 'connection timed out' error, Shelly gives a 'Network is unreachable' error when I use the port I set it up on (any other ports it just stalls out on), and AnyDesk tells me 'The desk is not available'. Well it's two days into my vacation and after a few successful sessions, all the connections have decided to drop entirely. After a bit of trial and error, got them running just fine on both my iPhone (Shelly) and my Windows 10 laptop (PuTTY), and the AnyDesk client on both. I'm on vacation far from home for a week, before I went I decided to set up ssh and AnyDesk on my desktop so I could do some remote coding (what's a good vacation without work? :P). TP-Link Router & Arris SB6141 Modem, Comcast Internet connection. Home setup: Dual Boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu/xfce, with Ubuntu being the default boot option after 60 seconds.

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