Fiber!

All my servers appeared down the last couple days. I got Utopia fiber into the house after a ten-year wait, and they set me up on a private IP address, which meant that no ports got through to my servers. Servers have ports on which they listen for incoming requests, and mine heard nothing. I just got switched to a different VLAN which assigns an external IP address, so I can now see the ports. It's a dynamic IP, but I'm already set up for that, so the domain name (kf7k.com) switches to the new IP in a minute when it changes. Nice. Fiber is fast, but there are some slow connection setup times.

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