Hello,
Well it wouldn't have been the first time I went out in the dark.
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.
Soon I get an email from big boss that the server is back up. End of
story.
But only the machine is rebooted. I know my linux at home starts up
the web server, postgress and there are ways (maybe rc.?) to start
other services. This sysadmin is really out of my area.
The last time they did this I had to enter this command:
ifconfig [ip address] ...and some other stuff like netmask ..
Well I did that again but it didn't work for me as it did before. I
EXPERIMENTED. Dangerous. Nothing. I thought, this is nuts; we
should just have the ISP do this. Power goes down, they reboot and
reboot all services from a list I give them. I am responsible for
update of list. So next time if the power goes down they just reboot
and hopefully we will not even know.
Well I get back an email saying that the whole network went down.
They said it was my experimenting with ifconfig.
Question, is this possible? I think so. But should this be possible?
Does anyone provide co-located machines where what a customer does on
that machine can bring down the whole network?
How can an ISP provide co-location and just hope that the owner of a
co-located server doesn't screw up? Personally I never wanted to even
step into this domain but I was given the task of getting the servers
running and the ISP told me to do it myself (hoping, of course that I
would screw up).
I would have thought there would be some sort of controls so that a
co-located machine could only screw itself up.
Feedback?
Peter
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