Author: bryan hunt Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [IMPORTANT] Networking for this weekend's Bring a
Box meeting
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 08:03 +0100, Chris Malton wrote: > Hi everyone,
>
> (With apologies for not sending via Adam first)
>
> Unfortunately, after some discussion with the Systems team at the
> University, I have had the wipe the DHCP database due to a fundamental
> flaw in the web form used to submit the data.
>
> If you have already submitted DHCP requests, please do so again.
> You will now have to agree to both the University and the departmental
> terms of use for computing facilities, and that's something I've had
> imposed on me.
>
> If you don't register by the weekend, hopefully, upon turning up and
> connecting, you'll get the DHCP page appear as soon as you try to visit
> any other site, and then if you give it (at most) 10 minutes, it'll
> re-register you and all will be well and you'll have proper networking.
> I'm working to make this instant, but it does depend on a few bits of
> magic that aren't so easy to implement.
>
> Look forward to dealing with all the problems from this on Saturday.
>
> Chris Malton
Wow. So that's where the tax dollars go. Efficient.
