Matthew GarrettWondering why a bunch of my network infrastructure was weirdly slow and finally discovered that the cable to one of my switches had come loose on my router and the eero plugged into that switch had lapsed back into wireless backhaul and was happily routing everything else plugged into that switch via wireless instead but my wireless backhaul is absolute dogshit so everything sucked
My network topology does not seem especially complicated but it's already complicated enough that things can break in ways that cause abject confusion so clearly I should just get into BGP because how could that possibly be worse
("Why do you post like this, Matthew" I hear none of you say, but I respond anyway. Because growing up I never saw people who knew things about computers talk about how everything was broken most of the time and so I assumed that I was doing something wrong, and now I am here to tell you that despite being *extremely* computer my stuff is randomly broken all the time and it takes me far too long to figure it out, so it's not you we just build things that humans are bad at handling)
maswan@mjg59 The by far most valuable conference for me as a sysadmin is a fairly small recurring one where people are actually willing to speak about "this disaster happened, this is why, and this is how we fixed it" and "we tried this, it seemed like a good idea but didn't work out for reasons...".
And it is so rare, because most of people talking at events or in blog posts are "we are so awesome because we do everything the way of awesomeness".
will-h