Looking back through the posts it seems that every other one is all about a bit of gear breaking or network outages. So, just to let you all know, things ain't all bad. If you read the comments from the previous post you'll see that the last outage was caused by Country Energy being a little over zealous with the off switch. Anyhow that is all sorted now so we shall move along and enjoy the sizzling of wifi radiation around our ears. 

You'd never guess I was killing time whilst waiting for a virus scan on a broken workstation would you....

 Paul should be adding a post later to let you all know about a meeting over in the Coffs SLSC at 1pm this Sunday, oh hang on I just told you. Well er maybe Paul will make it sound more official.

Feel free to delete this rambling post. I need to start fixing some broken sectors....

The Coffswifi auth server which manages all the logins for the wireless hotspots around town has mysteriously disappeared. I have tried to contact Paul but he appears to have been kidnapped by aliens... hmm - I sense a conspiracy. Until he gets returned to this planet/dimension coffswifi is, effectively dead... or is it? 

I stayed up last night and rebuilt my own authentication server at http://home.tregeagle.com/wd/
It should be working but I am missing something because the wifidog gateway is not talking to it. I'll have another go at it tonight and hopefully will have a working replacement up and running for all to use.
I think I need to open up a port but couldn't see anything obvious in the wifidog.conf file. Any geniuses who'd like to offer their opinions or expertise please do so in the comments.

Here's to my bleeding eyeballs.

Ruben

:~|

We are going to migrate over to a new server with the latest version of the WifiDog Captive Portal. This will affect all users of this network. We have chosen to start a fresh. That means no existing data will be migrated onto the new system.