excell

Weird, I was wiping myself this morning after a huge movement and thought of that... What's your boggle?

Mmm tempting. I think the wife would kill me.

...and it seems we've had a big bag of failure tonight. To be continued.

Hah. By the way, you know what they say... you can't succeed without failure.

More fun.

Uh huh. I ain't your son.

Quit trying to be l33t.

No, we're running a crappy application which I suspect is holding open connections.

In this case, I believe I need more qualified programmers.

Having fun yet?

LOL, awesome!

We've been having an issue with our firewall cluster (completely separate units, primary and secondary, for redundancy) holding onto connections after they're long dead. Imagine it like you have three phone lines at your business, you get a call on one line and the when the call is over, someone doesn't hang up the phone - the call is over, but the line remains open and you can't use it. Now this happens on all three lines and you cannot take any more calls in or out. That's essentially what's going on. Except we can support 25000 calls (connections) and something that is not easy to identify is holding them open. The issue initially surfaced on Thursday, when we had three hours of intermittent connectivity while we attempted to trace the exact source. We had another 15 minute outage yesterday after a troubleshooting step that should not have affected our services did (and I beat my senior engineer in his head for performing ANY steps during business hours). We've been taking the site down at 11P yesterday and today, and probably tomorrow to perform various troubleshooting steps. Last night, I took down the server CR lives on so I could make a few changes to an application that lives with CR on this server that I suspect is the culprit. Tonight we're taking down our services to force back over to our primary firewall for further testing. Did I explain that at least mostly clear enough?

Gonna happen again some time after 11. I expect 10-15 minutes of down time.

Russia has ended the operation, no WWIII today.

All done.

Few minutes of downtime at 11P, rebooting the server. What a GREAT last few days!

Bad week to be me...

Almost done. Sorting out VPN wonkiness, might have another restart but I doubt it'll effect because should be able to keep high availability.

That's why we're up-and-down. Should be done soon.

Firewall issues, sorry.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool'd

People fish to actually catch fish? I do it to get drunk, ignore people, and stare into space.

Free time.

I bought my license earlier this year to try and get back into it. Haven't yet.