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.
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.
Or retire to a desert island and become a gardener, just to mix two old sayings up and confuse everyone.
So, how do we cure the BGP security problems that are in the news?
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