the system. is down. the system. is down. the system. is d*BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*

[rone]

Our network was hiccuping more than a drunk epileptic throughout the day. It was still hosed when i left work. When i came home, i was greeted by almost 1000 messages in my work inbox, the glut of which were ping timeout alerts. Evidently, things were working again. The explanation and cure:

The packet storm that resulted in today's network outage appears to have been quashed by powering down all edge switches within the [building 1] and [building 2] LANs.

OH YEAH, BRING OUT THE FUCKING HAMMER, BABY!

Comments

[jbroughton.livejournal.com]

aah, sounds like things haven't changed much with the colo. Need a unix engineer to fix the problem? *puppy eyes*

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It wasn't at the colo, it was at 99RI. And if a UNIX engineer could have fixed the problem, well, i would have.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Was this related to the Sapphire worm?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, no. It was traced back to a Mac causing a multicast storm. Right now we have DBAs working on checking all of our SQueaL servers, but the security dude says we don't have 1434/udp open to the Internet, so we should be OK.

[jbroughton.livejournal.com]

I miss the security dude. He was a cool guy, Mr. Irishman. I gotta give him a ring to see whats up. And 99RI wasn't that stable either, every building I kept getting moved around to, I lost connection every few minutes. Well at least my streaming audio did. aaaah, I miss it.