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A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

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Re: A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

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Post by lostmyuser0678 »

layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #186
jeffbee wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is indeed folly to assume that cattle have no identity. There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs. Sometimes a machine just takes an arrow to the knee and it's never the same again. Then there are all the uncontrolled or unrecorded differences between machines: the ones…

I don’t think they make hard disks in Hungary.

Anymore.

Re: A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

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Post by asmosoinio »

jiggawatts wrote: post #192
grawlinson wrote: post #189

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One of my computers has been aptly named 'THESEUS' due to what was replaced on it. By the time it was repaired to an acceptable level, the only original component remaining was the chassis.

Heh... that reminds me of my favourite troubleshooting story! We had a customer with regularly failing tape backups. CRC errors, verify pass failures, even failed writes, and so forth. We replaced the tapes with new ones. Same issues. We replaced the tape drive with a new one. Still the same problems. We replaced the internal ribbon cable and the SCSI controller. No luck. Firmware flashed everything. Didn't help. New…

That is quite the story! Sounds like a very large amount of resources spent on that case.

What was your companys role? Backup services/devices?

Re: A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

frogpelt wrote: post #217
grawlinson wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my computers has been aptly named 'THESEUS' due to what was replaced on it. By the time it was repaired to an acceptable level, the only original component remaining was the chassis.

I was troubleshooting a computer once that would randomly shut off during boot and, one component at a time, I replaced everything on it including the motherboard to no avail. Finally I took all the parts out of the original computer and put them in a different chassis and it worked! Put them back in the old chassis and back to the old problem. Eventually I noticed that there was an extra stand-off in the first compu…

Put in an extra standoff on my very first PC build, and it wouldn't boot until I found and removed it.

Re: A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

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Post by jiggawatts »

asmosoinio wrote: post #222
jiggawatts wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh... that reminds me of my favourite troubleshooting story! We had a customer with regularly failing tape backups. CRC errors, verify pass failures, even failed writes, and so forth. We replaced the tapes with new ones. Same issues. We replaced the tape drive with a new one. Still the same problems. We replaced the internal ribbon cable and the SCSI controller. No luck. Firmware flashed everything. Didn't help. New…

That is quite the story! Sounds like a very large amount of resources spent on that case. What was your companys role? Backup services/devices?

This was general IT consulting back in the early 2000s. The customer was small, they only had three tower servers and only one had a tape drive.

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Post by simook »

magicalhippo wrote: post #152
jeffbee wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is indeed folly to assume that cattle have no identity. There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs. Sometimes a machine just takes an arrow to the knee and it's never the same again. Then there are all the uncontrolled or unrecorded differences between machines: the ones…

> It is indeed folly to assume that cattle have no identity. My dad had a book over almost all the cow names in Norway[1], per 1988. As a kid I found it rather fun to just flip through it and read some names, often wondering how they came up with them. However since then it seems the tradition of naming cattle has dropped[2] to less than 30%. [1]: "Gullhorn og dei andre : kunamn i Noreg" https://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-…

I only know of small farmers who name their livestock, but that was back in the States.

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Post by comprev »

JackeJR wrote: post #205
grawlinson wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my computers has been aptly named 'THESEUS' due to what was replaced on it. By the time it was repaired to an acceptable level, the only original component remaining was the chassis.

Reminds me of the saying, "I have used this broom for 20 years. I only needed to change the broom head 20 times and the broom stick 10 times.".

Trigger's broom scene from Only Fools And Horses. Classic British comedy

Re: A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case

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Post by zomglings »

fizwhiz wrote: post #200
jeffbee wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is indeed folly to assume that cattle have no identity. There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs. Sometimes a machine just takes an arrow to the knee and it's never the same again. Then there are all the uncontrolled or unrecorded differences between machines: the ones…

> There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs. Eyy what would I search on moma to find this video?

ms/die+mothafuckaz
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