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#sysadminday

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Julian Oliver

How did I spend , you ask?

A host to manymany VMs came up unlucky from cold boot without a route to a valid NTP server, which threw system time into the random past, which in turn meant that DNSKEY(DNSSEC) was b0rked because the process owner was from before the key validity period, which in turn meant that bind9/named provided broken DNS to all the VMs, which meant no NTP for them either, which in turn baffled logs, corrupted session caches & created piles of unsent mail.

Phew

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Adam MacLeod

I suppose its only fitting that #sysadminDay was and remains busy for me. It started with a storage problem on a 3rd-party host, which among other things is prompting an "if you want it done right, do it yourself" response going forward. Then, a customer wants to launch a new ecommerce site. So its domains, DNS, mail, user accounts, databases, and putting templates in place time.

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