> Well it wouldn't have been the first time I went out in the dark.
Laughing! You and me both! At least you were dealing with
replaceable electromechanical hardware!
> We have a server co-located with an ISP. We discovered that our
> server was down. I call and they say yeah it's down. I ask why and I
> get a runaround. I ask for them to email me the details.
Very Bad Sign... Pool of blood and brains on floor next to former
sysadmin's chair...
> The last time they did this I had to enter this command:
>
> ifconfig [ip address] ...and some other stuff like netmask ..
Um... you know... any sysadmin that requires YOU, an off site
not-system-wide-configuration savvy person do to this, really should have
that pool of blood and brains on the floor by his chair! Put there by his
boss!!! (But only after finding a replacement...)
Unless... but even IF it's your co-location machine...
> Well I get back an email saying that the whole network went down.
> They said it was my experimenting with ifconfig.
Well, that is possible, but not that likely, I suspect. Not unless
they are using that machine as the DNS server. And even then, they really,
really ought to have SEVERAL DNS servers!!!
> Does anyone provide co-located machines where what a customer does on
> that machine can bring down the whole network?
Only idiots, in my opinion.
> I would have thought there would be some sort of controls so that a
> co-located machine could only screw itself up.
Yes...
Now, I occasionaly screw up my own network, (a few pentiums, some
486's, and an SGI machine,) but by and large, it is only the single
machine that I screw up, which drops off the net. So if they are not
running additional services of their own on your machine, like DNS servers
and gateways to other networks, which they should not be doing, then
screwing up your machine SHOULD NOT cause any system wide problems!
And if they are running those services on your machine without your
permission... you have probably a case against them!
I'd suggest you look around for another ISP to do business with!
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