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                           Spillover from yesterday

Today started out like yesterday ended [1]. I was awaken by a call early this
morning because a server I manage was down. I call over to the datacenter to
have it rebooted, only to have it still down half an hour later.

Sigh.

Get into the data center to find: Keyboard error. Press <F1> to continue
across the screen.

Sigh.

After that, I had to give the new server [2] the old IP (Internet Protocol)
address, only it kept refusing to accept the new IP address, saying that some
other machine was using it. That's odd, I thought. I could have sworn the old
machine was unplugged from the network. And lo, when I checked, it was.

Turns out Smirk had moved the site that was on the old server to one of our
servers temporarily, but neglected to inform me of that little detail.

Sigh.

Then a rash of calls and support tickets screaming about email. Over and over
again I had to inform our customers that because of the denial of service
attack, email got backed up and our email server was having to process a huge
backlog of emails just please be patient.

Sigh.

Things calmed down after that.

And I'm not saying anything past that—I don't fancy jinxing myself.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/15.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/15.1

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