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Connectivity has been down for the last hour and a half here at work.

Well... kinda.

It appears that our DNS server is down, making it so that you can't go to domain unless you know the IP address (and the domain you want is the primary on the machine you contact).

It finally started working a few minutes ago. I wonder if our IT department knows why it was down (or, as Jester put it: "now lets see if IT can figure out why its working").

Keyboard slapping primates... all of 'em!

And the best part about the network going down?
Our phones go down too. Gotta love the IP phones
So I was sitting in a meeting shortly after the network came up and people were complaining about IT not notifying people the network was down

Let's see,
you can get to the porn site = network up
you can't get to the porn site = network down

Seems pretty simple to me!!

Heh... the problem was teh funneh!

See... in our new training room, there's a bunch of ports in the walls so people can plug into the various different networks in the building, depending on what they're doing.

The problem is: some of those networks MUST NEVER EVER talk to each other.

Someone plugged a cat-5 cable into one a port for one network, then plugged the other end of the cable into a port for the other.

Oops!

hehehehehe

So was that someone from your IT department that decided to connect the two networks? Or was someone bored and decided to test the skill of your IT people!!

It was an engineer (from outside of IT).

I'm going to make an assumption that it wasn't done on purpose. Rather, someone probobly had their laptop plugged in, then unplugged it. Someone else saw the cable lying there and stuck it in the jack (just trying to be helpful).