Another wonderful trip to Navel Park
And Amrita got to ride on her favorite horse – Chibi-ใกใใ (chan).
And Mama too ๐ Some videos of their ride –
Nicolas coming towards the camera –
And Amrita enjoying her time in the park (as usual) –
Hope you enjoyed the trip as well ;-D
Last whole week I was stumbled by the fact that my home network with 3 PCs suddenly stopped working. None of them were able to “see” each other, except for a little while… strange.
Technically (since it is easier to describe), A, B, C – my 3 computers – could reach each other, share files, host apache, download files without any extra configuration.
Last week, however while using C’s http server from A suddenly stopped. Puzzled, I thought the machine might be overloaded, or something like this must be causing page to timeout, or apache must have hanged (does it?). But things seemed to be working OK on C, in fact top showed a load average below 1 ?
Further puzzled, I tried pinging A to C, and vice-versa. It worked… but only for a while. Pinging after a while seemed to stop. Huh?
Scourging over the Internet wasn’t easy for answer. Maybe my way of searching was wrong, but I did spent a good week trying to fish out the ping issue, then next to dig deeper to find that accessing C’s IP from outside (it already has a global ip; though dynamic, paired through dyndns to the world) worked. Now each of them – A, B, C – have no internal 192.168 ip’s, just public ip’s. What good are public ip’s if I have to access them from outside than just sitting home?
Something was wrong.
To cut short, I called the ISP, asked them if they have changed anything recently (well, I was using A, B, C sharing files for over 6 months now). My ISP reported that no such upgrade, or settings were done. Deeply mad about this situation, I chose to disable the firewall (Eset Nod32) on A, and then tryout the ping – which worked effortlessly to C, and back.
What the hell! Why did Nod32 suddenly seem to block my own A, B, C from seeing each other? ARP Poisioning? I don’t know, only thing I know is that it shouldn’t block them. ๐
Well, atleast things are fine now. I’ve changed settings on Nod32 to Not block threat detected addresses henceforth.
The website is up, and running on a brand new OS – Ubuntu 9.04 Server. Supercool to configure, has pre-configured LAMP, OpenSSH out-of-the-box.
Using the UFW was too easy than messing with iptables, or routing.
Feeling great having refreshed up my home server with a mature OS.
We had a splendid day today! We were invited to Mahesh’s place in Nishi-kasai. Amrita, Nicolas enjoyed their playtime with little Vibha.
We feasted on an extremely delicious lunch prepared by Rajshri (Mahesh’s wife) – Puran Poli, with Amti. And not to mention, how tasty the Bhaji was… ahaha yummy!
The next was a well mixed dish of basmati rice with amti, one cannot describe it’s taste in words unless you eat it prepared from Rajshri’s hands once.
All of us really enjoyed the short visit to our friends, and we could really say our visit as greatly satisfying (and appetizing) despite of the gloomy, rainy day outside.
Some very funny moments, especially when Amrita, Nicolas decided to play with Mahesh, and Rajshri.
We do wish to visit our friend often, and see how Amrita, Vibha’s new friendship grows deeper. Nicolas with his unsatisfied appetite, was eating anything that came in the way of his mouth. Hope he doesn’t upset his stomach with this cocktail of apple juice, bhaji, snacks, rice, puran poli, milk, and vitamin water (phew!)
A hot, sunny day – what could you do best? Rest indoors, or have fun outside in the park, right? Right. ๐
Our trip to Navel Park was definitely worth shot on this day! Don’t believe me? Well… look for yourself –
Wasn’t it real fun?
Phew, got a LOT of ssh brute-force attacks here. Have setup sshfilter. Let’s see how many does that keep out!
http://www.la-samhna.de/library/brutessh.html#5
What does this make you think of?
I almost could not stop laughing watching this…
When i see such advertisements, it really infuriates me.
Are people so “dumb” as to expect this as something new offerred during Golden Week holidays in Japan? In today’s age, is there any ATM closed during holidays? Why then still make such catchy adverts claiming something already people expect, and present it as a beneficial service?
Isn’t he the cutest boy?
Have you seen how startled Nicolas is?