Comments on: Sorry about the brief outage today

Sorry about the brief outage today

delfuego — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:50:45 -0800

Sorry about the brief outage today; the networking equipment at this end of the T1 had a seizure, apparently, and needed to be restarted in order to get things back in order. Makes no sense to me (or to the networking gurus at my ISP), but there you have it.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:59:03 -0800

s'okay. I got caught up on my duties during the downtime.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:03:57 -0800

HA! "Duties"!

::wiping eyes::

Boy, you've said some funny things before, CC, but that about takes the cake ...

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:04:19 -0800

It's gremlins, I tell ya. I (and the rest of our netops) have been busy as a one-armed paper-hanger with loose pants.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:06:25 -0800

Perfect opportunity to install the UPS, though.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:50:59 -0800

Crash - You. Have. No. Idea.... it's like all the shit hit the fan at the same time on the same day. Oh yeah, and our tech and I had to build 12 systems for temps that arrive tomorrow morning.

By: delfuego

delfuego — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:29:33 -0800

Well, there was THAT outage, too! It looks like the CSU/DSU on the T1 got hit today during a flash storm here in New York; it meant that we got the line back up, but that ultimately the CSU/DSU had so many errors that it couldn't stay up. Luckily, about 20 minutes away was a drop-in replacement for the equipment, and I was able to run and get it tonight. Things look OK for now; let's hope they stay that way!

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:08:53 -0800

Heartfelt thanks, delfuego!

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:32:01 -0800

Ditto.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:53:43 -0800

I usually just stand over the router and yell at it. "LOOK! BEHIND YOU! IT'S A T1!"

Never works.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:17:22 -0800

I just replace the cat 5 from the csu/dsu with licorice whips (cherry, always cherry). Nothing really changes, but it smells nice.

[And it's fun to try to get an RJ-45 connector squeezed on to one of them. With the hours I'm usually waiting for the local telco to get off there asses and fix the problem that they keep saying is mine, trying to make little twisted pairs out of licorice passes the time better than minesweeper or solitaire.]

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:48:12 -0800

I *love* netadmin humor. Isn't there a website/support group for you folks somewhere? And thanks from me, delfuego! As usual, I always think there's something wrong with *my* computer when MeFi has outages, so I check matt's a.w.l.n. to be sure....

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 07:39:06 -0800

I always check matt's a.whole to see if there's something wrong, too. If tha failes, I check Jason/DelFuego's cheese.