Network frock ups - Page 3

HUMMER · 13th June 2012, 3:38 PM

the worst i had done was lock myself out of a router. the other was configure a vlan for the wrong customer. it was not just the wrong switch. it was completely the wrong customer.

however i have been lucky i had not done worst. my friend who i use to work with brought down a whole clients network in the middle of the day. forgot what he actually did to break it as i was not with the company when he did this.

mooboyj · 13th June 2012, 11:39 PM

I used to work at a reasonably large ISP and broke BIND for the eastern states and The Northern Territory. Not my finest hour

Smokin Whale · 14th June 2012, 12:27 AM

Man you guys have had some epic frocks :/ worst i've done forget to plug in a switch somewhere when setting something up, nothing hectic to report here...

HUMMER · 14th June 2012, 1:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Smokin Whale

Man you guys have had some epic frocks :/ worst i've done forget to plug in a switch somewhere when setting something up, nothing hectic to report here...

amateur....

use to remember the security guards was telling me this story. some guy was in the datacentre. there were these big arse buttons clearly marked do not press. this was the power shutdown to part of the datacentre. yes the arse hat pressed it. for whatever reason i do not know. and you can guess the mayhem that results after this got pressed.

also the team leader for the server team added a device in the network which brought down our floors network connection. must have had the wrong default gateway or incorrect ip address which may have already be in use on the box he plugged in. since then he was banned from ever setting foot in the comms room for this fuck up.

lithos · 14th June 2012, 5:30 AM

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Originally Posted by HUMMER

amateur....

use to remember the security guards was telling me this story. some guy was in the datacentre. there were these big arse buttons clearly marked do not press. this was the power shutdown to part of the datacentre. yes the arse hat pressed it. for whatever reason i do not know. and you can guess the mayhem that results after this got pressed.

Dude, didn't whoever set up that centre ever read the Evil Overlord List? You have the button marked "DO NO PRESS" setup to trigger a spray of bullets aimed directly at the button.

LostBenji · 14th June 2012, 6:30 AM

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Originally Posted by PabloEscobar

From my point of view, yes, they are idiots... for hiring someone who willfully does something like this, with full knowledge of the effects it will have.

DILLIGAF ?

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Originally Posted by rainwulf

You are a dick.

Better than being a pussy....

Got my point across.

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Originally Posted by FiShy

Agreed, poor noc people.

Yeah, very poor NOC. Please justify their 70K+ salaries each when they could not see the one and only single red crossover cable going from the top switch to the bottom switch, not even put into the cable management....
Very poor NOC.

kenks · 14th June 2012, 10:22 AM

Sounds like the NOC didn't actually go checkout the switches and physical connections

I have had a few moments, one of them was deploying to the wrong collection in SCCM, another was running SQL Changes across the wrong type of system :S

My old boss deleted the entire All Systems Collection in SCCM to, which was a hoot.

FiShy · 14th June 2012, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by LostBenji

Yeah, very poor NOC. Please justify their 70K+ salaries each when they could not see the one and only single red crossover cable going from the top switch to the bottom switch, not even put into the cable management....
Very poor NOC.

Most noc's are not even located onsite of most of the core kit for redundancy purposes, so how do they know?

You sabotaged a network due to your own pettiness.

PabloEscobar · 14th June 2012, 2:38 PM

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Originally Posted by LostBenji

DILLIGAF ?

Are you current employers aware of what a petty little man you are?

Accidents happen, as this thread shows. But to willfully disrupt network services out of spite because the people telling you what to do get paid more than you will quickly lead you down the road of Unemployableness.

gwills · 14th June 2012, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by LostBenji

Got my point across.
Please justify their 70K+ salaries

Yeah probably not the smartest way to get your point across, I can see why people here a pissed. I guess for a lot of us that would be to far over the line. And I couldn't knowingly do that to the company I was working for.

I wouldn't have thought that 70K was a lot of money anyway ?

biatch · 14th June 2012, 10:21 PM

There are ways to go about getting your point across, but sabotaging the network is not really one of them.

ics · 15th June 2012, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by biatch

There are ways to go about getting your point across, but sabotaging the network is not really one of them.

Worst I've been involved in, was a deployment of a south American IT hub. The clients office was very large and was fitted out with a dedicated server room with multiple racks designed to provide connectivity for the company's entire South American operations. After the delivery of all the hardware the last part to be delivered was the massive UPS. Total fit out was several hundred thousand dollars.

When the sparky went to wire up the UPS he realized the building didn't have enough power capacity. After contacting the power utility the client was advised that they couldn't provide said power capacity. The entire room sat without power for 2 years whilst the power utility upgraded it's network.

IT manager at the time assumed that power wouldn't be an issue...

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fR33z3 · 15th June 2012, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by ics

IT manager at the time assumed that power wouldn't be an issue...
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Wow, nasty way to learn the old rule to never assume. I suppose thats why 'IT managers' shouldn't try and be engineers.

cvidler · 15th June 2012, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ics

IT manager at the time assumed that power wouldn't be an issue...

In a similar situation, finance approved purchase of nice new shiny HP blade chassis, fully populated with specced out blades (many $100k).

But wouldn't approve us getting in a sparky to swap some 2x10A GPOs to 15A GPOs as required for the chassis power supplies. Each 2x10A was on its own 20A circuit, so there was no technical problem. We just couldn't get in a sparky. Hardware went unused til it ran out of warranty and was disposed of. All for a few hundred dollars we couldn't get approved.

KriiV · 15th June 2012, 8:18 AM

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Originally Posted by cvidler

In a similar situation, finance approved purchase of nice new shiny HP blade chassis, fully populated with specced out blades (many $100k).

But wouldn't approve us getting in a sparky to swap some 2x10A GPOs to 15A GPOs as required for the chassis power supplies. Each 2x10A was on its own 20A circuit, so there was no technical problem. We just couldn't get in a sparky. Hardware went unused til it ran out of warranty and was disposed of. All for a few hundred dollars we couldn't get approved.

And where was my call to come pick them up.

Wow, might have been cheaper to buy and extended warranty?

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13th June 2012, 3:38 PM	#31
HUMMER Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: sydney Posts: 8,932	the worst i had done was lock myself out of a router. the other was configure a vlan for the wrong customer. it was not just the wrong switch. it was completely the wrong customer. however i have been lucky i had not done worst. my friend who i use to work with brought down a whole clients network in the middle of the day. forgot what he actually did to break it as i was not with the company when he did this. __________________ Originally Posted by Randy_Chuggs - I just get down on all fours and suck it out Originally Posted by Subcommandante - Who are DVDA? Just a bunch of guys hanging out and having fun... Originally Posted by Agg - You seem to be confusing OCAU with some kind of democracy. Originally Posted by Spyfox - mount it on the rear like a brokeback cowboy

13th June 2012, 11:39 PM	#32
mooboyj Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 520	I used to work at a reasonably large ISP and broke BIND for the eastern states and The Northern Territory. Not my finest hour __________________ "The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation" ~~Adolf Hitler~~ Stephen Conroy

14th June 2012, 10:21 PM	#41
biatch Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North Brisbane Posts: 1,687	There are ways to go about getting your point across, but sabotaging the network is not really one of them. __________________ I have the ability of single-minded determination and focu... Hey, look! A horse!

14th June 2012, 12:27 AM	#33
Smokin Whale (Taking a Break) Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD Posts: 1,482	Man you guys have had some epic frocks :/ worst i've done forget to plug in a switch somewhere when setting something up, nothing hectic to report here...

14th June 2012, 10:22 AM	#37
kenks Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 14	Sounds like the NOC didn't actually go checkout the switches and physical connections I have had a few moments, one of them was deploying to the wrong collection in SCCM, another was running SQL Changes across the wrong type of system :S My old boss deleted the entire All Systems Collection in SCCM to, which was a hoot.