The Official Status Thread
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TIL: If your service binds to a fixed port inside the range linux uses to assign dynamic ports (32768 - 61000) and you get unlucky, You're Gonna Have A Bad Time.
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Status: Feelin' pretty good. The changes I took the lead in implementing a few months ago to make our main office's second Internet connection into a redundant backup (instead of the Guest Wireless that was planned to our oh-shit fallback Internet connection via some sneakernet and pixie dust) worked pretty well -- we were down since an hour before I got into the office and the helpdesk inbox didn't explode from people who couldn't work. Just send this little "hey, we have some services impacted while the primary is down" email and we'll be good to go.
Status: Email from user at remote office who can't sign into Skype, since that depends on the site-to-site VPN, which is down because our old firewall doesn't really handle (at least according to the network guy) failing the VPN over to the secondary. Damn you Skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyype!!!!
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If your service binds to a fixed port inside the range linux uses to assign dynamic ports
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Status: Trying to download an older version of Debian for a customer support case. However, you can't just download a Debian ISO, you need to use some tool called jigdo to download. Naturally, all the Jigdo documentation is full of words about how awesome Jigdo is, and how much easier and more efficient it is than just downloading ISOs, rather than giving me info on how I'm supposed to use it. And of course the latest Windows release is from like 1863 and doesn't even run, and the Linux release requires Debian which I don't have yet. :facedesk:
JUST GIMME MY DAMN ISO!!
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since that depends on the site-to-site VPN, which is down because our old firewall doesn't really handle (at least according to the network guy) failing the VPN over to the secondary.
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Linux release requires Debian which I don't have yet.
- install latest debian
- Install Jigdo, which sounds racist
- get old version of debian
- profit!
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I probably shouldn't post, and maybe not even read, before caffeine. My reading comprehension this morning is ... imperfect.
That doesn't stop certain other people here from posting, why should it stop you?
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Status: Trying to download an older version of Debian for a customer support case. However, you can't just download a Debian ISO, you need to use some tool called jigdo to download. Naturally, all the Jigdo documentation is full of words about how awesome Jigdo is, and how much easier and more efficient it is than just downloading ISOs, rather than giving me info on how I'm supposed to use it. And of course the latest Windows release is from like 1863 and doesn't even run, and the Linux release requires Debian which I don't have yet. :facedesk:
JUST GIMME MY DAMN ISO!!
Queue the sound of a hundred TDWTF-ers rushing to google, hoping to prove you wrong.
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Yeah, yeah.
I think we're going to go with door #1 of "work around the by ensuring the Skype connections from remote offices come across the DIA connection for Skype, rather than the VPN", which theoretically should also improve call quality for remote office users. But I can't really test that until Primary ISP gets their thumb out and fixes their area-wide outage.
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Queue the sound of a hundred TDWTF-ers rushing to google, hoping to prove you wrong.
Didn't even need to google, I know it can be done easily:
What do you need, 64bit DVD images?
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0/amd64/iso-dvd/
There.
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Now find them for version 7.1.0...
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7.1.0? Why that one specifically? I mean, I'm sure there's an archive somewhere but... 7.9.0 is easy at least:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/7.9.0/amd64/iso-cd/
Should do it, it's Debian so there should be no breaking changes, unless you're stuck on a specific kernel version or something?
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yw, etc
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Ha. We have our windows app servers set up to allocate everything above 8000 dynamically. Because we get through that many sockets.
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unless you're stuck on a specific kernel version or something?
This. The customer is using 7.1.0 and we need to match that to make sure any software packages we build match their kernel.
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That's where I'm getting them. However, except for the useless Live discs, there are no actual ISOs there, just the jigdo template things...
I finally got Jigdo going. It seems to be a terrible BitTorrent-style thing. Maybe by the end of the week I'll have an installer.
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I open up
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@HardwareGeek said:
I probably shouldn't post, and maybe not even read, before caffeine. My reading comprehension this morning is ... imperfect.
That doesn't stop certain other people here from posting, why should it stop you?
Touché̀̿̈̆̾̚
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At my university, all the servers run sshd using their postal code as a port number as some security through obscurity thing. And every postal code near me starts with a 5.
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However, except for the useless Live discs, there are no actual ISOs there
Usually you can install from those?
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The live CDs are network installers.
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I downloaded one. It had Iceweasel and that was about it.
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I remember downloading some ISO that was less than ten megabytes and burning it onto a CD when I was installing Ubuntu on my server.
Why spend the time to download the whole thing ahead of time when you only need a few parts, once?
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Why spend the time to download the whole thing ahead of time when you only need a few parts, once?
In our case I manage a PXE boot server and I take any Linux installers we may need again and add them to the company's network boot menu. It goes pretty fast if it's all on the LAN and doesn't need to install over our ~10 Mbps Internet connection.
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Even then, wouldn't an apt cache be more effective than full-sized images?
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...I don't know what that means.
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Status: Wondering why @Fox is liking the posts where I link my videos, since he clearly isn't interested in watching them.
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**Status:**strong text I don't think that "average response time" measured in thousands of ms for Disk 0 is good.
That's the third hard drive this computer's had in under two years. The first replacement was DOA. All three seem to have approximately the same date code, too. Yay Dell for doing lifetime buys, but not so good when it begins to appear you have a bad batch of drives.
ETA:
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Probably to reduce the traffic the servers would otherwise get from attempted bruteforces, really not a bad idea. It's recommended to change the port anyway if it must be left open to the public.
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Status: Episode 12
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One of my devs laptops is currently being swapped for motherboard #4 in 1.5 years. As in the Dell guy is here right now.
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I had an HP laptop like that--bought it like January 5th, it worked fine until about July, then wouldn't power on intermittently. By August it wouldn't come on at all, so I sent it back to HP. Three times. They eventually ran out the clock on my warranty and I wasn't going to pay $200 to extend the warranty another year so those fuckers could yank me around some more, so the thing's been sitting in my closet, dead, for about 4 years because I haven't gotten around to throwing it out.
I'm not convinced they actually replaced the mobo like they claim they did. I spent $35 buying a core i3 to drop in to see if that would revive it--no effect.
I can probably find another mobo on ebay but it's more money than I want to spend for something with no guarantees.
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Status:****strong text I don't think that "average response time" measured in thousands of ms for Disk 0 is good.
my work laptop does that too... i've given up on trying to fix it. the damn thing has been relegated to just running outlook plus
input director
so i don't have to swap keyboard and mouse from my desktop to use it.
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my work laptop does that too
The problem is it's the second-best PC in the office. My IT thinks if it's on it's 3rd drive it might be a bad cable (or who knows, a bad controller.)
Dell doesn't ship extra cables, though, so I'd have to salvage one from elsewhere or bring one in from home. ISTM I tried that at one point, though.
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core i3 to drop in to see if that would revive it--no effect.
As expected, unless for some reason the CPU headers were misaligned in the socket and removal/insertion reset that.
I have a laptop like that doing something similar, but at least the lights turn on and the battery charges. Screen doesn't power, hard drive doesn't spin. On the plus side, it lasts about four hours like this, compared to the 2.5 hours it would if it were actually on (my guess is the screen).I suspect corrupted BIOS, since holding the power button for 6 seconds does still kill it.
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As expected, unless for some reason the CPU headers were misaligned in the socket and removal/insertion reset that.
...or the CPU itself was dead. IIRC in three repairs they claimed to have replaced the CPU, then the CPU and mobo, then the mobo.
The last time I got it back the mobo had what I assume was TIM compound slopped around in a few places, which did not impress me.
It looks like there's a handful of theoretically compatible mobos on ebay, for $70-100. One claims to be a new one, but they want $30 to ship from China. A bit more than I really would prefer to pay, although the laptop would probably still be pretty decent if it worked properly, even though it's 5 years old.
Mine flashes the LEDS 3 times, which indicates "bad CPU", and won't power on beyond that. Not even the LCD backlight.
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a bad controller.
This. Unexpectedly encountered in one of the IBM T42 units I have. Apparently a trace to the IDE connector was semi-broken, resulting in a kinda-connected pin. It almost kinda works, for example it knows there's something connected, but what you get back from it is heavily garbled and not worth much except maybe a poor source of entropy?
Status: Varchar(100) for all the things!
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flashes the LEDS 3 times
Ingenious replacement for the system beeper, eh? I'm assuming you mean it flashes all the panel lights, my computers usually flash the power light 3-ish times if the battery is "dead" and no power source is connected.
Actually, this might make sense in context: If it's failing to power on (due to failed charging/power supply), did you try another power brick, or a spare (known charged) battery?
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They eventually ran out the clock on my warranty
That's legal? Ew.
(Though I'm not sure whether that's legal here either.)
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As expected, unless for some reason the CPU headers were misaligned in the socket and removal/insertion reset that.
or the CPU itself was dead. IIRC in three repairs they claimed to have replaced the CPU, then the CPU and mobo, then the mobo
I've seen two (Athlon64) up and die as the only components involved, so it is possible. The systems were fully functional for years with a new CPU so it wasn't a failing power supply wot dun it either.
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Status: Wondering why @Fox is liking the posts where I link my videos, since he clearly isn't interested in watching them.
He watched them. But even Google knows his opinion is so worthless, that it doesn't even count it in YouTube's stats.
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Queue the sound of a hundred TDWTF-ers rushing to google, hoping to prove you wrong.
Did you confuse this site with Slashdot again?
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Status:
Hey, can you quickly connect to this server, try to set up this SIP trunk real fast?
sigh... OK...edit /etc/network/interfaces set up routes using half-assed instructions ping SIP server in question no reply
I don't know what's wrong, I'd need their support on the line, they fucked up the network config more than once, I suspect it's either that or this route won't actually work the way they gave me the instructions to set it up
OK, we'll do it tomorrow, no big deal5 minutes later
THE INTERNETS ARE NOT WORKING ANY MORE
? I touched nothing related to that! Why is the PBX the DHCP and DNS anyway? ... sigh, ok, look, the routes were temporary, the interface was configured to get the IP from DHCP, just unplug the cable and, in worst case, reboot the machine so the routes get blackholed
Nope, still nothing
Can you hack together some kind of TeamViewer connection or something?
Sure, hold up.connects to TeamViewer connects to server using putty discovers that it's only DNS that's not working > systemctl status named named.service not found
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#WAT?
Filed under: FUCK YOU DISCOURSE AND YOUR BROKENDOWNTML!, thanks to whoever did the talking head thing first
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Your view counts are busted; I've watched at least 2 of those.
Or put another way: always assume YouTube is a giant pile of broken buggy shit before assuming malice.
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Update:
named
wasn't there because DNS was set up usingdnsmasq
by a coworker- stupid fucking telco either set up their SIP interface to give out DNS info, or they sent me the wrong port number to connect to, again
- this in turn overwrote
resolv.conf
, but since there were no routes to that subnet from the rest of the network nothing could actually get to their nameserver
Did I mention I hate all telcos and/or ISPs?
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Ingenious replacement for the system beeper, eh? I'm assuming you mean it flashes all the panel lights
No, the tiny little num lock/scr lock lights. The power/HDD indicators are dark.
Yes, that's HP's idiotic replacement for beep codes.
In this day and age there's no good reason not to put a seven-segment LED or something on the bottom. My desktop mobo has a pair of them to indicate boot status. It's nice because if it hangs up during the boot process you can look up in the manual what the code was to tell you where in the process the fault was.
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That's legal? Ew.
Well, 5 days or whatever to ship it there, that much more time to ship it back, 5 minutes to two weeks in the lab. Plus, it didn't fail immediately when it was sent back, so I had to wait for it to fail, and then wait a bit longer until it failed hard and couldn't be restarted at all before starting the whole thing over again.
Do that 3 times, it can easily take up 5 months or so. It's probably not illegal and might not be unethical.
It sure as hell is sleazy, though--I tried to argue with the drone on the phone the third time, asking when we decide enough is enough and it's a lemon that should be replaced instead of repaired.
Now I just tell people about it and urge them to not buy HP because they won't stand by their products.