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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade  2d ago (text post) 36 thread views #321255

Bard spotting on Bluesky 28 November 2024 :marseyrandom:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

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Micah (@rincewind.run):

the reverse tech equivalent of "it's never lupus" is "it's always DNS"

even if you think it can't possibly be DNS… it's DNS

Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com):

I'm being told it was DNS. Should be back to normal. Images will gradually fix themselves.

Thanks everyone!

liv (@livfreeorcry.gay):

weird inexplicable shit happening between two computers? that's DNS babyyyyy

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Back when OSX was still called Mac OS [number], an entire Fortune 500 corp was brought to a standstill for 2 days because the netadmins had decided to tell the DNS system to trust any machine that used DHCP to advertise itself as the authoritative name server - which OSX did by default at that time

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

They also had configured the internal network to relay those DHCP advertisements. Everywhere. In. The. Corp.

Across four continents

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The corporate Mac guy had merely plugged his cube in to the network

THE Bryan Wenzel (@bryanwenzel.bsky.social):

Well, see, there's your problem right there

(Have also seen a corp network taken down because some butthole with an iThing & active DHCP took over the segment DNS handling, I had to figure it out with Wireshark in real time)

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

looking back on it, it was hilarious - very unfun in the moment, and I wasn't even in the blamechain for it

THE Bryan Wenzel (@bryanwenzel.bsky.social):

I'm proud of troubleshooting it now looking back, the bonus is that it was the head of facility security that did it, & he HATED me, so it was great to throw his dumb butt under the bus directly to the CTO & COO

But at the time? That Monday morning? That SUCKED, the entire network was basically off
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