Networks and firewalls
Mar. 10th, 2004 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueAt about lunchtime yesterday, stuff started going wrong. All my connections to MSN/ICQ etc. dropped. Over the course of the day, stuff got reported as 'not working'. WINS replication, a particular site that's really rather important for our site services to make purchase requests, and a few others.
Found out what happened this morning. Our Network Nazis decided that they'd load a new firewall rulebase with only 'corporate standard' services in it. OK, I guess that's their decision really, but the fact that the didn't see the need to tell anyone about it is the thing that _really_ pisses me off.
When we went down to enquire, we were told this. And informed that 'well stuff works OK from here'. (Which is true, because they're on a different subnet, so has different access controls).
Oh well, I guess that shows how much regard they hold for their server ops team.
And of course, it'd be petty and spiteful to de-prioritise stuff in the future. Not to say I'm not tempted though...
Edit: Can now MSN again. Which is nice. Still means we're going to have to go and troubleshoot tonnes of stuff.
Found out what happened this morning. Our Network Nazis decided that they'd load a new firewall rulebase with only 'corporate standard' services in it. OK, I guess that's their decision really, but the fact that the didn't see the need to tell anyone about it is the thing that _really_ pisses me off.
When we went down to enquire, we were told this. And informed that 'well stuff works OK from here'. (Which is true, because they're on a different subnet, so has different access controls).
Oh well, I guess that shows how much regard they hold for their server ops team.
And of course, it'd be petty and spiteful to de-prioritise stuff in the future. Not to say I'm not tempted though...
Edit: Can now MSN again. Which is nice. Still means we're going to have to go and troubleshoot tonnes of stuff.
