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Re: Famous operational issues
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:18:49 -0800 (PST)
----- On Feb 16, 2021, at 2:08 PM, Jared Mauch jared () puck nether net wrote: Hi,
I was thinking about how we need a war stories nanog track. My favorite was being on call when the router was stolen.
Wait... what? I would love to listen to that call between you and your manager. But, here is one for you then. I was once called to a POP where one of our main routers was down. Due to political reasons, my access had been revoked. My manager told me to do whatever I needed to do to fix the problem, he would cover my behind. I did, and I "gently" removed the door. My manager held word. Another interesting one: entering a pop to find it flooded. Luckily there were raised floors with only fiber underneath the floor panels. The NOC ignored the warnings because "it was impossible for water to enter the building as it was not raining". Yeah, but water pipes do burst from time to time. But my favorite was pressing an undocumented combination of keys on a fire alarm system which set off the Inergen protection without warning, immediately. The noise and pressure of all that air entering the datacenter space with me still in it is something I will never forget. Similar to the response of my manager who, instead of asking me if I was ok, decided to try and light a piece of paper. "Oh wow, it does work, I can't set anything on fire". All if this was, obviously, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These days, things are -slightly- more professional. Thanks, Sabri
Current thread:
- Re: Famous operational issues, (continued)
- Re: Famous operational issues Simon Lockhart (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Randy Bush (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Randy Bush (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Damian Menscher via NANOG (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Todd Underwood (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Sean Donelan (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jörg Kost (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Richard Golodner (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Justin Streiner (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jared Mauch (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Sabri Berisha (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jon Lewis (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Paul Ebersman (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Sabri Berisha (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Rogier van Eeten via NANOG (Feb 17)
- Re: Famous operational issues Owen DeLong (Feb 17)
- Re: Famous operational issues Eric Kuhnke (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jared Mauch (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Warren Kumari (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Karl Auer (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues George Herbert (Feb 18)