Today is May 1.
On most Linux systems, there are “log rotations” which can take place daily, weekly, or monthly. Log rotations frequently but not always require that a service be restarted. This is because while log files have been renamed, the service which is writing log data to them, retains a handle to the same file as before, unless that service is restarted. Once the service is restarted, it obtains a new handle from the O/S, for a fresh log file.
Most of my log rotations have no side-effects. But when I set up my ‘OpenVPN’ -protocol VPN server, I decided to set up a monthly log rotation associated with it, which also has as post-log-rotate job, to restart this VPN.
Oddly enough, this does not impede the VPN service from restarting. But as a side-effect, this knocks my (Debian) ‘Miredo’ client off-line every time, which gives me IPv6 connectivity when it is running, by way of a Teredo server.
It seems that the authors of ‘Miredo’ have already observed, that restarting something that upsets the IP stack in this way, can knock their client off-line, and so the makers of this package omitted any logging, or log rotation, for ‘Miredo’. But whenever by VPN server is restarted, this affects the Teredo client I just named.
Today is May 1. So therefore in a routine way, my IPv6 address was knocked off-line by the monthly log rotation this morning. And this effect lasted, until I manually restarted the Teredo client in question.
So as I am writing this, I have an IPv6 address again.
Dirk