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Our IT department sUxOrz much butt

Post by bio » Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:25 pm

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").

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Post by eddiecanuck » Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:19 am

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 :shock:

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!!
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Post by bio » Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:27 am

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!
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Post by mmeowgrl » Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:09 am

hehehehehe
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Post by Maximus » Tue Nov 18, 2003 3:12 pm

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!!
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Post by bio » Tue Nov 18, 2003 3:25 pm

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).
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