On 02 Sep 12:25, MJ Ray wrote:
Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
On 02 Sep 10:47, MJ Ray wrote:
Oi! Polite! Else I'll tell everyone about the new sysadmin who spent *ages* restarting apache on the wrong system and wondering why it didn't change the website configuration.
Wasn't bad for in the first week, really... what with the copious documentation we had :) Between that and the eventually finding the right runes for the "oh crap, the NFS server has decided to kill things again, oh, and NIS has broken" I think working for stu was *marvellous*.
Heck, at least it killed things (thanks to timeo, soft, intr and some other options). Most of the NFS problems on campus servers used to make processes hang in an unkillable D (waiting for disk I/O) state and the load averages rise to something astronomical.
Indeed - it was nice that it did, once we got all the options right, and the right magic procedure to bring everything back up without a reboot... :)
These days I get more fun playing "track where the hell that packet is dropping", with pf and OpenBSD... my head isn't liking me today... and all I want to do is [...]
Bring about world peace - it's probably easier than networking.
Heh - got it now, involved 3 different instances of pf on 3 different firewalls, the first routing to the second, that then routed to the third which then did the nat for it... all the fun it was :)
Or retire to a desert island and become a gardener, just to mix two old sayings up and confuse everyone.
Hmmm, I wonder how easy it is to garden a barren landscape, sounds tricky.
So, how do we cure the BGP security problems that are in the news?
Oh, that one is *easy*... basically, take all the nosey, naughty people out of the gene pool. It's a social problem, basically society is full of arseholes, remove them and we can just get on with the fun parts.
*grin*