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[azurelunatic]

I now have a can for 'your nameserver's IP may not be 10.X.X.X'. This is a sad, sad circumstance.

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[pauamma]

It can't be 172.16.x.x-172.31.x.x or 192.168.x.x either. Or any address you made up on your own just because you like those numbers.

[azurelunatic]

As I run into those circumstances, they will develop canned answers too!

[wibbble]

> Or any address you made up on your own just because you like those numbers.

My job involves logging into our customer's networks all day.

It's disturbing how many networks I see configured to use real externally addressable IP addresses as their internal IP range.

One I came across one day was using a range assigned to the Chinese government.

Sometimes I want to beat the MCSA-rejects that call themselves network admin for those companies.

[pauamma]

I'm not sure which is worse, that or seeing RFC1918 addresses in traceroute output. (Yeah, I've seen both.)

[wibbble]

It's a bit sad - we all get so happy when we come across someone whose IT staff have not only heard of Linux, but can actually log in without us having to explain what 'root' is.

There's one company which specialises in providing IT support to the industry we're involved in - they have exactly one person who knows what Linux is. It's so sad.

[pauamma]

*checks profile, notes location* You guys (or some of your customers) are hiring for any position?

[wibbble]

Ha! Our customers are all over the place - mostly UK, but some in Europe and we've got an office in the US, in Virginia.

We're always looking for developers. Web-based applications deploying onto RPM-based linux distros (we'd change it if we could, but the boss likes RPM), written in perl, usually badly. We've recently started doing testing on releases, and they installed Trac not that long before they hired me. Early releases were done without source control - installers were created by making a tarball of the development machine.

Still think you want to work for us? :op

[pauamma]

Hmm, maybe - I'm reasonably fluent in perl, but I'm less sure about being a developer 100% of my time. In a nutshell:
- once developer (better at reading code than writing it ATM, but still able to cope)
- kinda sysadmin (mostly FreeBSD, but I can deal with some Linux sysadminish tasks, probably up to and including installing OS or major application packages as long as you don't expect me to do it correctly first time through) with basic knowledge of some application-level admin eg sshd/postfix/postgresql/bind
- rusty network hardware geek (former CCNE and CCDE, haven't played with cisco hardware in over 5 years) whose knowledge of basic and intermediate IP networking is still current (I can't configure a BGP connection, but I know what named and dhcpd are for and how to make them do what I want with occasional forays in the docs, I can interpret a traceroute and a tcpdump trace, and when I need to read a RFC, I will be able to figure out which and where to find it)
- occasional FAQ writer
- troubleshooter of weird LJ tech support problems (usually, by banging my head against them until something gives - occasionally, by banging others' heads too, or by slogging through source code in search of stuff that may break in specific ways) for most of the past 3 years
- fully bilingual (English and French), able to translate technical documents

OK, so that nushell was probably closer to a coconut than a walnut. Still think you want a closer look at me? :-)

[wibbble]

Heh!

It would be very far from my call - I'm just 70% support and 30% junior sysadmin, and the only reason I'm not the least senior person in the place is because they've hired four more people since I started seven months ago. :o)

I'll send you a direct LJ message with the company details. Not comfortable mentioning my employer's name in public, especially in a thread where I pointed out our shoddy working practices. :o)

[wibbble]

D'oh, or maybe not, since you've set security restrictions on who can message you.

If you want the details, drop me an email to my LJ email address.

[pauamma]

Try again. I was changing that at the same time you tried. :-)

*fwoosh*

[wibbble]

I hate using web-based email/messaging services, because you don't get the little 'fwoosh' sound effect that Apple's Mail.app makes when you send a message.