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August 06, 2003
Server Disaster
There's nothing quite like one's net connection going down to kill project development. Of course, this also brings new ferver to getting stuff done as well.
One of my web servers at work, an antiquated server really, decided to take itself down and a few subnets with it. Everyone who came in to work and turned on their machine in three different subnets all were greeted with "that IP address is already being used by another machine." Fun. :P One of the techs said that it very well could have been the 3Com card in the machine. He'd dealt with other 3Com cards wiping out networks when they went bad.
Or the machine could have been hacked. We couldn't find any trace of such after a rather extensive search. Maybe we just weren't looking in the right places.
Anyway, I've been rebuilding stuff from that server and putting out related fires. I was in the gradual process of phasing out that server anyway, but I didn't want to do it all at once.
And to top this all off, every time I type the word disaster, I keep typing distaster. Of all words to spell incorrectly, I guess that's a good one, eh? :)
Posted at August 6, 2003 06:30 PM | Life and Work
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