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2:10 AM

@Holocryptic I meant more long term. Say, I've been drinking a lot of wine of the past few weeks, so I'll switch to G&T for a while, maybe a proper cocktail if I feel fancy.

Holocryptic

Ahhhh

@ScottPack Is it sad that we all chat amongst ourselves via different chat media in a given day?

Scott Pack

@Holocryptic Efficiency. I still see Twitter as primarily an announcement medium, not really a chat medium.

Holocryptic

yeah, the character limits puts a damper on things

Scott Pack

ooo....sword and board fighter with some fancy feats lets you use the shield both defensively and offensively at the same time. That could be fun.

Holocryptic

Shield rush

Scott Pack

2:15 AM

@Holocryptic Tell me about it, that character building post had 1...one! character remaining.

Holocryptic

What do you play?

Scott Pack

We'll be going back to Pathfinder. We've had a several month long excursion into Ghostbusters (West End Games).

Holocryptic

Do you play IRL? or online?

I've never done a true RPG

Scott Pack

In person. It works out pretty well, we all work at the university, and only one of the guys doesn't have kids. So really we only end up playing for a few hours once a week.

On the plus side, we're a libation friendly table, and we play about 1.5 blocks from my house.

Holocryptic

niiiiiiiiice

Scott Pack

2:33 AM

Speaking of which, probably time to go to sleep.

Holocryptic

I was just thinking the same

G night

WesleyDavid

2:58 AM

@ScottPack Hey sexy.

But you're not here. I hope you die in your sleep.

WesleyDavid

3:22 AM

COFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEE

voretaq7

stretch

yawn

smash the shit out of the server

uh

am I overtired, or is this not even english?

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Q: What is the DNS lookup sequence for DFS namespace resolution

Not sure if title makes sense. I have 3 DNS servers: A, B and C. I want to access the DFS namespace \\country.company.com\dept from A, B and C but on B, \\country.company.com resolves to itself hence errors out on \\country.company.com\dept. A alone is running DHCP with "scope options > DNS Ser...

it certainly makes no sense to me :-x

WesleyDavid

COFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEE!!!!!

voretaq7

@WesleyDavid even coffee can't make that mess sensible :P

WesleyDavid

When you have enough coffee to alter your perception of space and time ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!!

voretaq7

100 cups

WesleyDavid

3:34 AM

GOOGLY SCRIBBLES YAR HE TOFU!!

And technically it wasn't "coffee" it was coffee concentrate used for making coffee flavored slushies.

voretaq7

ew?

WesleyDavid

IT TASTES LIKE LIFE!!

ALL MY THOUGHTS ARE IN CAPS LOCK!!

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WesleyDavid

4:36 AM

Goodness Windows's whole disk management is messed up. The way dynamic and basic partitions have so many stilted, weird restrictions and caveats that make no sense. It's just a matter of memorizing the mess.

Semi-random release of frustration.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid you mean "memorizing the mess for each OS version"

WesleyDavid

@ShaneMadden Basically. Like, Windows can see NTFS on a dynamic partition, but can't format it that way unless you force it.

Dynamic partitions can only be moved amongst server or "Pro" editions... which is fine I suppose.

Oh, and @womble, how are you so certain that it's a rDNS slowdown? What am I missing?

womble

4:51 AM

@WesleyDavid That was me completely misreading the ping data. Deleted and reanswered.

Shane Madden

@womble Yeah, I read it as seconds at first, too.

Probably a slow application, but that ping's fine

...unless you're running a system where the RAM and CPU are in different data centers.

WesleyDavid

@ShaneMadden I couldn't tell if the front end and back end are in different DCs. That's kinda how I interpretted it.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Still, a maximum ping of 3.5 ms.. that's nothing, yet he's claiming the pings "aren't fast enough". He's confused.

WesleyDavid

Yeah, I didn't catch on to that either.

Just read "slow ping - do this" rather than verified the facts.

Coffee is wearing off. I'm now down to normal levels of stupid.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid lol, well, the questioner being already running in one direction with an issue makes it hard. Just the facts, with none of the assertions that they've made, would be great.

WesleyDavid

5:00 AM

Is that 3.5 ms or 3.5 seconds? 21 pings cost 20,000 ms

So if it was 3.5 ms, where's the couple ten thousand ms come from?

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid 1s delay between pings. His response times are in ms.

WesleyDavid

ohh, derp

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid 21 packets transmitted ... time 20011ms

WesleyDavid

Three nearly identical answers. Who gets the green check mark! It's like a geek version of The Bachelor.

Joseph didn't even try, so he's out.

Me vs Womble. straightens tie and spritzes binaca

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid I'm gonna bet on whoever posts a 6 word answer of: "there's nothing wrong with that ping"

WesleyDavid

5:05 AM

@ShaneMadden Do it! Do it! Do it!

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid I already commented it. I'm gonna give him a lecture on the speed of light if he responds to my comment. ;)

WesleyDavid

Maybe he's not agreeable to the constance of c

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Potentially. If he's accelerated the speed of light, then 1.8 ms may indeed be far too slow.

In other news. This is already closed, but it's so phenomenally "WTF" that I think it deserves pointing out:

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Q: Execute code on server ping

If my server is pinged, I want to be able to execute code that not only is sent back to the "pinger" but also logged. What is the best way in achieving this? I'm running a Linux server, so any code would be written in pearl.

ping

WesleyDavid

Yeah, I was going to post that, but wasn't sure I wanted to waste the photons.

You know he's just doing it to either prank a buddy or piss off someone that decided to use his server to pingtest their network.

Shane Madden

I'm running a Linux server, so any code would be written in pearl.

execute code that not only is sent back to the "pinger"

I just.. I wonder sometimes.

WesleyDavid

5:10 AM

I AM RUNNING A COMPUTER SO ANY CODE WILL BE IN ASSEMBLAGE LANGUAGE

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid any code must be given in the form of a punch card

WesleyDavid

"pinger" didn't bother me so much. I say "pinger" and "pingee" or perhaps "ponger." Unless I'm equally warped, which is a definite possibility.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Sure, but, sending the "code" back to the pinger? Wrong on so many levels

WesleyDavid

I want to know the backstory.

Although, "pearl" is closer to the original intent of the name that perl comes from.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid I'm not sure that I do. I mean, pings of death are all well and good, but I don't think SF is the place for asking how to write a custom ICMP handler that responds to all requests with 66 KB responses..

WesleyDavid

5:14 AM

No, certainly not. Stuff like that is what IRC was invented for.

That and role playing.

Shane Madden

On second thought, those questions could be fun. "I'm getting DDoSed so I've got my server set up to DDoS those fools right back."

"Help me troubleshoot the communication between the attacked node and the zombie swarm"

MikeyB

5:57 AM

@ShaneMadden That is just a spectacular level of fail. I doubt he's trying to do anything nearly as clever as IP over ICMP.

WesleyDavid

Dynamic disks that were upgraded from basic disks still contain a partition table, it's just moved. Dynamic disks made from unallocated space do not have a partition table. Thus you cannot install Windows Server on a dynamic disk unless it was previously a basic disk. Microsoft, just... no.

And the room comes alive all at once.

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid I blame @MikeyB

Shane Madden

6:24 AM

Jeez, already just 6 votes away from rep cap for the day. Someone come up with a good question for me to throw a bounty on in the morning, so I don't have a bunch of rep fall into the void again. Sleep time.

Iain

7:09 AM

G'day

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