In the event of network failure between a booted acnode and acserver, it shouldn't mis-interpret the failure to connect to acserver as a tool-should-be-out-of-service error.
especiallly when the tool is currently in use.
it should also be able to gracefully fall back to using cached credentials, especially where it's using sdcard or eeprom card caches.
Today, this occurred when a network switch crashed and failed to forward packets), taking out both the 3d printers.