SySy DAY

blake-murphy · 2023-07-30T22:23:22.000Z

I didn’t even know it was. Not until this morning (after resolving the next set of issues)
I did celebrate in ‘style’ though

Friday afternoon, lose half the network. Scan frantically trying to find the issues, working, working, working, working - WTH? Oh that switch that has been down the back for the past 8 years was faulting, but only faulting enough to make some things not work, was still giving POE & passing communication, while casually causing broadcast storms. Anyway, solved & thankful it happened then (as I shut down the system & all servers with the power company doing work over the weekend).

Power up - it’s alive Monday!
No… that’s not alive… troubleshoot, troubleshoot. We’re in another broadcast storm again Cap’n, batten down the hatches! On/off, On/off - Stupid smart fridge who said you could turn on DHCP?

Apparently the universe was unhappy that I was unaware that SysAdmin day was transpiring

Repairatrooper · 2023-07-31T00:29:39.000Z

Well, make sure to mark your calendar for next year. I also wonder why a fridge needs to act as a DHCP server?

zed · 2023-07-31T11:24:50.000Z

The Repairatrooper:

Well, make sure to mark your calendar for next year. I also wonder why a fridge needs to act as a DHCP server?

Each ice cube needs an IPv6 address in order to cool things properly.

tamara-for-scale-computing · 2023-07-31T15:38:35.000Z

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blake-murphy · 2023-07-31T21:29:23.000Z

To clarify the fridge stole a designated address, which left me restarting things for twenty minutes on the Monday.

IPV6 for icecubes, how silly!
The ‘smart’ heat pump is using all the IPV6 to make the hot water steamy!!