The Dreadful Has Happened

network down

Last night the school’s network died. Just enough to be ugly.

6 Responses to “The Dreadful Has Happened”

  1. jaeger said:

    Mar 14, 08 at 8:42 pm

    Is that miho from megatokyo?

  2. seth vidal said:

    Mar 14, 08 at 10:39 pm

    Your network guy is a megatoyko fanboi.

    What happened to your network?

  3. Maurry said:

    Mar 15, 08 at 5:39 am

    Oh, the old “Network is down” trick. Wherein, his/her first week or two at new position, the head purposely takes down the network to expose everyone’s vulnerability and then brings it back to establish who really runs the show.
    The length of time the head usually keeps the network down depends upon the amount of the contrariness of the user group. Most groups only need an hour or two to be brought to their knees. This place may need a good half a day.
    Currently only works at places where the users still naively believe in the goodness of human hearts and do not realize what evil lurks in the hearts of man (or, in this case, woman)

  4. Sukey said:

    Mar 15, 08 at 8:35 am

    Maurry has hit the nail on the head with this one. I think his analysis goes a long way in explaining the relevance of the selected illustration.

  5. arathorn said:

    Mar 15, 08 at 3:39 pm

    EMBARGO ON!

    Who run Barter Town now?

  6. admin said:

    Mar 15, 08 at 5:02 pm

    First, our network guy is not a Megatokyo fanboi. Would that be the case… that’s so far from reality… I just liked the picture and “shared” it from the web.

    The problem had to do with our DSU/CSU (I believe I have that right) failing ever so slightly but always so that our connection between the LAN and our ISP was growing wackier and wonkier until everything exploded. And you know how to fix that, right? Yep, power off, power on. Tomorrow we’re updating the firmware and we’re also buying a redundant unit, and I’ve bought more bandwidth which probably won’t fix this problem but will address some other issues.

    I knew there would be some crisis as soon as I got started. I hope this was it, because if so, this was an easy one. Only cost us $3900 and less than an hour of downtime. And I learned that our emergency website works, but could use a little help (shorter ttl and a blog for frequent updates).


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