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# 208656 21-Feb-2017 15:31

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So... thought Id work on some settings on my home router....straight away broke the network admins #1 rule.

DONT PLAY WITH NETWORK SETTINGS REMOTELY. Because when it goes down (and it will), you're stuffed.

Guess what.... Im stuffed. Angry wife. Angry kids. Angry friends who use my domain for email which is hosted at home.

Even called Voyager, "hey guys, can you remote in and turn off that rule I enabled" "Uh... we cant even get in".

****

I dont know if I want to go home tonight

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# 1723831 21-Feb-2017 15:36

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LOL

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# 1723832 21-Feb-2017 15:36

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Been there, done that :)

I once had to get my father to revert a change on their router via a phonecall and guesswork.

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# 1723836 21-Feb-2017 15:42

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For emergencies, hide a sealed envelope with the means to restore the last backup of the router configuration.

Likewise for your password manager, in event of death.

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# 1723837 21-Feb-2017 15:45

I had something similar, but not that big of an issue since I had two cheap routers and not that much running on it. So my wife plugged in the other one.

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# 1723875 21-Feb-2017 16:28

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Yep done this. I may however have blamed it on "the internet being down" to buy myself some additional time.

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# 1723877 21-Feb-2017 16:35

That sucks man. Feel for you. No DB for you tonight I'm afraid :-)

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# 1723943 21-Feb-2017 17:24

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Hammerer:
For emergencies, hide a sealed envelope with the means to restore the last backup of the router configuration.

Likewise for your password manager, in event of death.

Real men don't keep backups. They master the art of router configuration via a precisely timed series of power cycles.

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# 1723960 21-Feb-2017 17:51

that remind me of my first month of work, just out of uni, back in the 90's,when change control, what that, need to apply a patch - install during day and reboot, user do not need the server... ah those great time for patching, any way, the senior IT person told me to do a network change on novell 3.1 server - you edit a file with the new setting then you save the change, then you unload network stack, then reload - had trouble with the last bit..... senior IT person "you should have used a batch file for that"... next thing i learned was the server is 8 hour from my office, 2 hour from the nearest IT office, I also learned that you should ask the person on how he going to get to server when you ask them to go and sort out, turns out he did not have a driver's license, so he called a taxi for a 4 hours round trip - think the taxi driver was the only happy person when the boss found out.....

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# 1724073 21-Feb-2017 19:53

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Well, everything back online now bar the Unturned server which has a massive new update..... :)

Im still alive, didnt cop too much flack for it all :-p

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# 1724082 21-Feb-2017 20:02

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*slaps head*

Hosting your own mail, how 1998 of you.

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# 1724097 21-Feb-2017 20:25

tripp:

Hosting your own mail, how 1998 of you.

I don't know why, but there is a weird satisfaction with managing your own email. Maybe not from home though, I play with my router too often (compiling custom firmware and testing, etc.) at the moment to even think that would be an option.

Edit: and (very) fortunately for me, I live with a very good friend who is understanding of my need to tinker and is happy as long as I set her up with the ability to watch movies/tv shows without too much interruption while messing with the network.

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# 1724098 21-Feb-2017 20:26

xpd:

Well, everything back online now bar the Unturned server which has a massive new update..... :)

Im still alive, didnt cop too much flack for it all :-p

It has been filed away for a more appropriate occasion......

:-p

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# 1724102 21-Feb-2017 20:39

All education is pain.

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# 1724104 21-Feb-2017 20:42

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Aaroona:
tripp:

Hosting your own mail, how 1998 of you.

I don't know why, but there is a weird satisfaction with managing your own email. Maybe not from home though, I play with my router too often (compiling custom firmware and testing, etc.) at the moment to even think that would be an option.

Edit: and (very) fortunately for me, I live with a very good friend who is understanding of my need to tinker and is happy as long as I set her up with the ability to watch movies/tv shows without too much interruption while messing with the network.

There is nothing worse than sitting trying to fix the last balls up while someone stares at you accusingly from across the room...

Oh my early HTPC years were an adventure, and my lady is so tolerant.

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# 1724132 21-Feb-2017 20:50

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andrewNZ:
Aaroona:

tripp:

Hosting your own mail, how 1998 of you.

I don't know why, but there is a weird satisfaction with managing your own email. Maybe not from home though, I play with my router too often (compiling custom firmware and testing, etc.) at the moment to even think that would be an option.

Edit: and (very) fortunately for me, I live with a very good friend who is understanding of my need to tinker and is happy as long as I set her up with the ability to watch movies/tv shows without too much interruption while messing with the network.

There is nothing worse than sitting trying to fix the last balls up while someone stares at you accusingly from across the room...

Oh my early HTPC years were an adventure, and my lady is so tolerant.

Oh don't get me wrong, playing with stuff is always fun but email is not something someone should host at home anymore. Not when there is ways to attach your domain to gmail/outlook/other service from very little to no monthly cost. Just not worth the headache if others depend on it (like in this case).

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