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IT Fail of the Morning: Intranet site went down. Someone plugged in an iPhone with the same name as our Intranet site. Took over the name on lookup -- nm

Posted by budice Mar 14 '19, 10:01

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A long time ago, one of our server admins thought he had completely re-imaged a domain controller. -- (edited) - Inigo Mar 14, 11:04
I wonder if this is what happened to Facebook yesterday? -- nm - decline Mar 14, 11:02 1
- Mark's phone just blew up, no literally, we're lucky nobody got killed -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 14, 11:31
Moral of the story? iPhones are bad! -- nm - Shaun Mar 14, 10:47
That is pretty effin' awesome. - ReluctantCynic Mar 14, 10:27 5
- I also love how simple it is to bork up a network with that but also farily challenging to block. Realistically you normally want DHCP assigned - oblique Mar 14, 10:38 4
  - *swoon* - ReluctantCynic Mar 14, 10:48
  - for my network I reserved a block of static IP's for servers that bypass DHCP - decline Mar 14, 10:41 2
    - but it wasn't an IP conflict. It was the names colliding. DNS wouldn't care which IP block it came from -- nm - oblique Mar 14, 10:50 1
      - oh, right -- nm - decline Mar 14, 10:51
hilarious. that's a new one -- nm - oblique Mar 14, 10:04
yikes! -- nm - Andie Mar 14, 10:01

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