Yes the whole system is down an d it will be untill we get a few more intrested people. If you have an interest the drop us an email. paul [at] coffswifi [dot] net

The whole network is down due to power outage at creek tower. It was flooded yesterday and power is out for some time.

Sit back, relax and have a cuppa.

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

:~|

Yes the whole network went down and we are days away from the new system which has redundancy. CEInternet has deleted the ADSL account which left us off line for 16= hours. We are currently using another account at the same location but it is using a dynamic address which will knock us all off every other day up to eight hours. We wiil try and get the server a static IP if not we will move the server to one.

It looks like another week without the net down at the Jetty. We were unable to gain access to the roof cavity to lay cable. Will try agian next week. So hold off on the coffee.

*SIGH*

Thats how long its been down at tyhe jetty. Well we are happy to announce that new calbes will be layed in the Jetty Shopping centre this comming Thursday (21/08/08). This means will have the access point up and running this Friday.

So grab your notebook and head down to the Jetty Strip for a coffee.

In case you are wondering where the wifidog login page has gone for your node...

I am afraid there is no good news at the moment. Some funky ISP maintenance has knocked the Auth server offline and Paul is away for a couple of weeks. In the meantime I have taken my network off the Coffswifi network so Sawtell Beach is now back up and running.
Everyone else, I suggest you take a walk on the beach and enjoy the sunshine before it starts to rain again!

C'est la vie

Yes you heard it right. Someone at 8pm today (16/06/08) stole the ADSL modem out of the riser at Creek Tower. This brought the whole network down for 4 hours.

The modem was ripped out damaging cables. We had a spare but it is old and it took a couple of hours to configure. Will keep you posted...as we belive the people who took the modem live in the building.

There has been times when access points drop off the network for many hours then reconnect without any intervention. We have found out that it is a DNS problem with the pointer to wifidog.coffswifi.net server. It has a dynamic address and used no-ip.com. So every time a new address was allocated some access points would drop off until their providers DSN servers where updated. It now has been fix - we have a static ip now so there should be less dropouts.

This website was down for a day(or so) due to a DNS problem. It happened when the DNS dropped the entry coffswifi.net. The entry for www.coffswifi.net was pointing to coffswifi.net. Still don't know why it has droped the entry but we have fixed the problem (not solved though)

PS we are going to lay some new cables down at the Jetty Village Shopping Centre so we hope to have the access point up and running in the near future.