Tootfinder

dnsviz is being cranky for me. Everyone else stop using it for the day, OK?
#Sysadminnery #DNSSEC #ItsAlwaysDNS

Had an account manager feed me slop to “help” me address a MS365 problem today. Turns out Copilot is poorly informed about how today’s MS365 operates.
In its defense, it DID give me the key phrase that I needed to search for to understand the problem. It just told me to look for it in places where it is not. An actual web search enlightened me.
#Sysadminnery

Today MS365 forgot the existence of both of the 2 rarely-used accounts I have with them solely for the purpose of supporting one of our largest clients. Then an hour later they remembered my existence, so I could reset the password that needed resetting.
How do people use this garbage and find it acceptable?
#Sysadminnery

Some people might call it a company culture problem that all of our customers are used to just emailing my boss whenever they have issues. I call it a way for his vacations to also be effective time off for me…
Of course, what I do on those days is all the tech debt stuff that I can never get done while firefighting.
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Cloudflare is preventing me from logging into a customer’s WordPress that they horked up. Apparently I look like a bot.
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It’s really appalling how much time I waste trying to figure out which antique browsers on which platforms I need to run to talk to all of the antique hardware that I support.
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I wish I understand *why* what I did fixed the problem that I still don’t understand, but it did.
I was just trying to get all 5 VMs involved onto one host so I could snoop on the traffic between them more easily.
I’m blaming stuck ARP or Spanning Tree. Two of those VMs were briefly fighting over the same IP last night before I fixed the freshly-minted clone to use its proper new one.
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I started out trying to fix a problem between my Nextcloud Desktop client and one server, ended up submitting a patch to MacPorts for an update to the cadaver port. Perfectly normal sequence.
(Nextcloud client DOES NOT use cadaver)
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I never ceases to amaze me that mail systems do this shit. I know it was a thing with Sendmail but most of us have moved on or at least fixed the stupid mailer flags.
#Sysadminnery #Email #Sendmail

It seems to me based on mailing list traffic like a lot of people are seeing the free side of MS email (outlook.com, hotmail.com, etc. not paying customers on ms365) doing what it so often does today: mystery rejections and dropping mail on the floor.
I assure you: if you're getting bounces because of this, your mail admin knows that it is happening and has NO WAY to address it.
#Sysadminnery