{"id":602,"date":"2007-06-07T22:25:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T06:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2007-06-07T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T06:39:57","slug":"how-to-solve-a-technical-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/how-to-solve-a-technical-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"How to solve a technical problem:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazymonkeygames.com\/Endless-Zombie-Rampage.html\">Kill some Zombies!<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Client emails us in a panic because his email server for their sub-company is down. He has no idea why, it was working fine the day before and he hasn&#8217;t been messing with it. I spend most of the day bashing away at it, can&#8217;t find the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Serendipitously, Comcast finally comes through with the second feed and new IP address so we can move this project out from under the main business and onto a separate firewall. Mail is already dead, the users won&#8217;t know if we move stuff around so we go with it. I re-write all of the firewall rules in record time, (That <acronym class=\"uttAbbreviation\" title=\"Certified SonicWALL Systems Engineer\">CSSA<\/acronym> course paid off!) and disable all the rules for this project in the main firewall. At the time, I notice something I think is a little odd, but move on. I make the changes to DNS at a quarter to five. Nothing to do now but wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>Go home, scrounge some dinner, zone on some tv, splatter about 500 zombies and generally turn off. My subconscious percolates.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few minutes ago, Bam! that oddness in the firewall comes back into focus and I realize one of the rules I had disabled in the main firewall was the killer. Check the mail server, and thar she blows! Email for all!<\/p>\n<p>The question now is, was one of our guys mucking around in there, or was this a <acronym class=\"uttAbbreviation\" title=\"The Starfish always lies!\">1st Rule<\/acronym> violation?<\/p>\n<p>My money is on the fish.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kill some Zombies! Client emails us in a panic because his email server for their sub-company is down. He has no idea why, it was working fine the day before <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/how-to-solve-a-technical-problem\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}