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Shoutout to our DHCP team. Every time modems aren't locking, they get called, even if we've verified that there's plenty of available addresses. It's a dumb phone call we make every time and they have never complained once. And we will continue to call them every time, because the one time we skip them, it's going to be DHCP related.
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Renegret posted:Shoutout to our DHCP team. Every time modems aren't locking, they get called, even if we've verified that there's plenty of available addresses. It's a dumb phone call we make every time and they have never complained once. Everyone always rolls their eyes about
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Stupid question. What does a DHCP team do? I can't mentally wrap my head around a team that just manages DHCP
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Biowarfare posted:Stupid question. What does a DHCP team do? I can't mentally wrap my head around a team that just manages DHCP They perform the profane and unspeakable rites that keep the vastly more IPv4 addresses than we have things that want to use it on the Internet working vaguely right Renegret posted:Shoutout to our DHCP team. Every time modems aren't locking, they get called, even if we've verified that there's plenty of available addresses. It's a dumb phone call we make every time and they have never complained once. same reason i make sure to cover the dumb "is it actually on" bases because i know i'm gonna feel like the world's biggest jackass if i spend 2 hours looking at complicated things and it turns out a power strip was flipped to off
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Biowarfare posted:Stupid question. What does a DHCP team do? I can't mentally wrap my head around a team that just manages DHCP If it's anything like a lot of our "teams" it consists of a handful of members that also belong to any number of other teams, it's probably not like a primary job or anything. My primary title is something along the lines of senior linux systems engineer but I'm also the configuration management tech lead, I'm on the Standards and Tools team (although it's on a long hiatus,) and a couple other cross-group teams. Our "DHCP Team" consists of a couple of the Network people and an OpEng person. It's not a team of people who solely do DHCP stuff, so I'd imagine that it's similar in their case as well.
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Is it bad that I would also be unsurprised if some goon works for a company where there's an IPAM.xls or Access database and a dedicated team that updates everyone's DHCP lease in a spreadsheet?
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Biowarfare posted:Stupid question. What does a DHCP team do? I can't mentally wrap my head around a team that just manages DHCP Renegret works for an ISP of some kind (not Comcast/AT&T size I don't think but I assume not extremely small either) and I assume they need to sacrifice virgins to the subnetting and DHCP server gods to keep the internet running with IPv4 NAT.
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MF_James posted:Renegret works for an ISP of some kind (not Comcast/AT&T size I don't think but I assume not extremely small either) and I assume they need to sacrifice virgins to the subnetting and DHCP server gods to keep the internet running with IPv4 NAT. Managing public IPs alone is a full time job for 2 people. And everything gets a private IP too for management. Set top boxes get 2 private adresses, landline modems get 2 as well. Then there's the literally hundreds of servers and everything that comes along with that. Not only do we have a dedicated DHCP team, we have dedicated individual roles within it. e: and there's an 8 digit number of devices Renegret fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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What are your thoughts on CGNAT and native IPv6? e: this is a joke question please don't get mad at me
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Biowarfare posted:What are your thoughts on CGNAT and native IPv6? They don't pay me enough to give a poo poo. Alternative answer: I'm anti ipv6 because I spend half my day punching in IP addresses and that's too much extra work
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Renegret posted:I'm anti ipv6 because I spend half my day punching in IP addresses and that's too much extra work https://www.ipv6buddy.com/ I thought this was a joke website at first
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Actuarial Fables posted:https://www.ipv6buddy.com/ That actually looks like a fun little goofy piece of hardware to keep around. I hate when I need to type in hexadecimal digits by hand and that would be so nice.
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All the hex letters can be reached by the left hand in it's normal position and the numbers with the numpad. The big advantage I can see with that is the colon so you don't have to move your hand for that.
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The double colon saves you two keystrokes. Think of the efficiency gain!
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There's got to be a cheaper way to do that, possibly with a QMK keypad? Then you could also have a layer toggle and maybe custom switches so the :: has a nice click and
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I guess if you're typing in dozens or hundreds of IPv6 addresses each day there might be some value there. The very rare occasions I actually need to do anything with IPv6 I just copy and paste the stupid thing.
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Schadenboner posted:Everyone always rolls their eyes about
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Knormal posted:We had an incident a few months ago where someone somewhere in our building plugged in an old printer that had been manually set to a specific IP, one that happened to match a DHCP-reserved PC with special firewall accesses, which of course was immediately knocked offline. There's still other sections at my place who like to reserve a printer's IP in DHCP, but then also hardcode it on the printer itself "just to be safe", and it drives me crazy. I do DHCP reservations that absolutely need to be set static, just to help keep track of IPs in something that isn't a spreadsheet. But yeah, I am a big proponent of things shouldn't be static unless it's 100% necessary. Printers are not necessary.
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Internet Explorer posted:I do DHCP reservations that absolutely need to be set static, just to help keep track of IPs in something that isn't a spreadsheet. But yeah, I am a big proponent of things shouldn't be static unless it's 100% necessary. Printers are not necessary. I agree, but have you seen how many people don’t understand dns?
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One day IPv4 will be retired and I can finally be on even footing with the superhuman IT folks who can memorize IP addresses.
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The Fool posted:I agree, but have you seen how many people don’t understand dns? in my early days I remember this being a meme Honestly I haven’t seen anyone have too much trouble With DNS other than maybe mixing up a record type. It’s a pretty simple concept. Like even doing fun stuff like dns load balancing or GeoIP is pretty intuitive all in all.
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Internet Explorer posted:One day IPv4 will be retired and I can finally be on even footing with the superhuman IT folks who can memorize IP addresses. Ah yes, IP Man was a good movie
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The Fool posted:I agree, but have you seen how many people don’t understand dns? To be fair they probably don't understand printers either
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Canuck-Errant posted:To be fair they probably don't understand printers either does anyone?
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Internet Explorer posted:I do DHCP reservations that absolutely need to be set static, just to help keep track of IPs in something that isn't a spreadsheet. But yeah, I am a big proponent of things shouldn't be static unless it's 100% necessary. Printers are not necessary.
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Adapters and You: A cautionary tale
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Baconroll posted:All near-by body cameras automatically start recording if a taser is pulled from the holster in the UK. From small sample of the 3 police I know here they all really like body cameras as its cut down fake complaints and reduced violence against them. Programmers get really invested in what they perceive as "right" ways of doing something, while there can be x ways to do it and theirs might not even be the best. It's really hard to break some devs out of very bad habits. Unlike sysadmins, because hardware is always objectively broken or working.
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Top set has multiple BNC connectors, that's cheating.
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Merijn posted:Unlike sysadmins, because hardware is always objectively broken or working. I can't tell if this is irony or not, but there's just as many ways of doing things in the sysadmin world that get their own sticks in the mud.
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I'm a dev, not a sysadmin. it was totally sarcastic
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Merijn posted:Programmers get really invested in what they perceive as "right" ways of doing something, while there can be x ways to do it and theirs might not even be the best. It's really hard to break some devs out of very bad habits. Incorrect, hardware has three objective states: Working, Broken, "...That's Interesting..." Neddy Seagoon fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Nov 22, 2020 |
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orange juche posted:Adapters and You: A cautionary tale I had an enormous chain of old adapters on my desk for a while and got a distressing number of serious questions about what sort of conversion needed that kind of adapter?
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shortspecialbus posted:I had an enormous chain of old adapters on my desk for a while and got a distressing number of serious questions about what sort of conversion needed that kind of adapter? It’s just a joke it would never work
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Arquinsiel posted:There are niche reasons that I would suggest printers be configured to have static IPs from a security perspective, but I've been in hotel networks where I escaped the local Dublin guest network and was printing "If you can read this please call <my work phone>" in a Baltimore reception just to see what would happen sooooo... my experience is very skewed. Did anyone call?
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Bob Morales posted:It’s just a joke it would never work I am well aware of that, yes. Did you miss the first half of my post?
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shortspecialbus posted:I am well aware of that, yes. Did you miss the first half of my post? I may have been on paid menication at the time
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Incorrect, hardware has three objective states: Working, Broken, "...That's Interesting..." Indeed.
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Schadenboner posted:Did anyone call?
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dragonshardz posted:Indeed. 4 states, you forgot the state where it's hosed until you walk up to look at it, and the errors clear, only to resume as soon as you leave. Observer effect. orange juche fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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