p: @Leyonhjelm @NonPlayableClown @Wiz @jae @technolyze @zer0unplanned It is frustrating to be asked that question but having worked in tech support, I know how often that solves the problem. Real fuckin' frustrating situation once, TW assigned us a new IP. And I could get up through TW but not through the rest of the internets. I had two lines at the time, static IP line for running servers and then the residential one (like, okay, if I get kicked off for running torrents, at least my mail server doesn't go down). So that machine was also on the LAN and I sshed to it and did a whois and the IP we were assigned had been allocated to TW about two hours before that. So, clearly, it was some BGP announcement that hadn't propagated. Try explaining that to tech support, though. Ended up just waiting it out for a few hours. (The static IP was on a business line; business tech support was *way* better, but also the business line was way better so I never had to talk to tech support.)

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:39:40 +0900

@Leyonhjelm @NonPlayableClown @Wiz @jae @technolyze @zer0unplanned It is frustrating to be asked that question but having worked in tech support, I know how often that solves the problem.

Real fuckin' frustrating situation once, TW assigned us a new IP. And I could get up through TW but not through the rest of the internets. I had two lines at the time, static IP line for running servers and then the residential one (like, okay, if I get kicked off for running torrents, at least my mail server doesn't go down). So that machine was also on the LAN and I sshed to it and did a whois and the IP we were assigned had been allocated to TW about two hours before that. So, clearly, it was some BGP announcement that hadn't propagated. Try explaining that to tech support, though. Ended up just waiting it out for a few hours.

(The static IP was on a business line; business tech support was *way* better, but also the business line was way better so I never had to talk to tech support.)