[olug] A moment of silence

aric at omahax.com aric at omahax.com
Fri Aug 3 15:49:58 UTC 2012


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so sad.

I am using a Compaq DL360 G1 as my home firewall.  I had 600+ days of
uptime.  If you want I have lots of DL360 G1 parts.  I got a spare ROC and
backplane.


> I need a moment of silence this morning in honor of my firewall.  The
> Compaq DL360 G1 rebooted itself at 10:48pm last night... for the first
> time in 2.5 years.  Nearly 900 days of uptime down the drain.
>
> I probably wouldn't have noticed if there hadn't been a syntax error in
> the dhcpd.conf file that threw an error to the logs that I get emailed
> each morning.
>
> The fact that it happened spontaneously, and that the last four drives
> I've plugged into the right hand bay have shown up as predictively
> failed within 24 hours, has me a little worried.
>
> Time to start shopping for a replacement, perhaps.
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth    obiwan at jedi.com    PrairieRimImages.com
>    The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
>      Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
>        promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins
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