Network Engineering

BUMBLESTUMP MISSOURI MAC Twain A local company celebrated the 7th anniversary of joining two critical data centers with its IT staff this week. For 7 years, the data centers have been connected using a bleeding edge technique their consultation firm calls “Distended VLANs” which allows communication between applications at each site. Getting there wasn’t easy. Veteran network engineer Treyce Rowt had slight reservations when the company first discussed the idea. “They are out of their f******* mind....

ACCIDENT, MARYLAND 31-Jan-2022 Mary C. Lagge made a startling discovery last week in an IT storage room while looking for spare T1/E1 WIC cards. “I was rummaging around for parts and underneath an entire shelf of new Nortel equipment, I came across the coveted red change binder that’s been missing for 17 years. Nobody thought it really existed it’s been lost for so long” she explained. The documents Lagge refers to are titled “!...

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NEW MEXICO 29-Jan-2022 Billy Ray Johnson has become the center of a developing controversy over mask usage in the network he manages. Johnson works for well-known food processing company Mystery, Inc. Mystery requires mask usage on all company prefixes. Johnson has a different perspective, however. “Look, I’ve tried every mask possible on these things, /8, /24, /29, hell I even tried a /31 and they just don’t work - everything still pings....

SACRAMENTO, CA 26-Jan-2022 System Engineer Barry Atrik at Nofault Hosting Services says that he “was excited by the possibilities when asked by management to move their services into containers”. Barry, a perennial go-getter known for not just his indomitable work ethic and willingness to “jump in with both feet, immediately”, but also his ever-present waist pack which as been described as “not unlike the Tardis, bigger on the inside” and “holds seemingly everything under the sun” immediately arranged for two dozen shipping containers to be delivered to the facility in order to containerize their systems....

GAINSVILLE, FL 24-Jan-2022 Self proclaimed network architect and amateur DJ Byron Galantowitz AKA bgzzzDJ101 provides valuable input on how cloudflare should run their network after a brief 302 redirected cloudflare.com to popular site clickfunnels.com, which to many looking for actual funnels, did not deliver the goods via a convenient large to small opening for efficiently moving liquid. Taking to networking expertise juggernaut Reddit, Byron delivered valuable if unconventional advice on how to run a global, highly redundant, and exceptionally well engineered content provider....