A Workplace Slice Of Life

[theweaselking]

"By the way, I got a little distracted while writing documentation and fixed your DNS server. Now it's propagating to the secondary again - it hadn't actually done a zone transfer since May. Oh, and you should change the root password."

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of an email that got circulated to us as a CERT: "Dear admin, I accidentally ssh-ed to your machine because I made a typo - please change your root-password, it's the same as my (1 typo away) test-box - test123" - from root to root ;)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

For bonus points, the DHCP server (and all the machines set up statically) were making the slave DNS server their primary, and the master the secondary.

Which is fine in principle, especially since the slave is actually a significantly more powerful box. In practice, when changes aren't propagating? Not so good.

[drcuriosity]

Writing documentation is often a good way to get other, completely unrelated problems solved.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I was in the middle of making a reserved IP list and a preliminary list of which machine was running what, and I noticed the DNS servers didn't match! How could I *not* fix it at that point?

[drcuriosity]

Writing documentation is often a good way to get completely related problems solved, too :-)