This is part 5 retelling the end of CDFW's battles with his company's network demons. You can read about CDFW's travails in the CDFW arcs. Part 1 began this CDFW recounting his experiences with various routers and we learned in Part 2 that CDFW would rather work with routers than Microsoft Word. We left CDFW with a non-operational router in Part 3 and discovered he could recite incantations in Part 4.
""Nah, can't be the subnet stuff. You need to fix the DNS. But you really need to use this program for this and that program for that and you set this up wrong, it should be upside down, and you really ought to be running xyz. .."
"It seems that network guys have a compulsion to tell you how to do stuff, even if what you're doing is working fine already and even though when you ask them for a good reason to do it that way, they don't usually have one other than, "uh, that's the way Microsoft said to do it." Guess it's easier to talk about that than to actually solve a problem.
"Eventually, I was able to convince most of them that DNS was working and, thus, wasn't the problem. Not always, though. One guy was convinced that there is something magic that DNS does besides name resolution and the problem was that I had just cast the wrong DNS spell. It needed to be upside down, or something. That blew about an hour and a half. Sigh."
More to follow...
I'll be speaking at the San Francisco April '07 Emetrics Summit on Quantifying and Optimizing the Human Side of Online Marketing on May 7, 2007. Come on by and say hello.
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