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Boilermaker
join:2001-12-20
Carmel, IN

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"an AT&T DHCP server decided it had other aspirations"

OK. I thought the way that was phrased was quite funny.

Out of curiosity, how did a single DHCP server cause a three-day outage? It cannot be that simple else an admin could have just grabbed another system and converted it into a backup DHCP server in less than three days.
big_e
join:2011-03-05

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Re: "an AT&T DHCP server decided it had other aspirations&q

One completely unsubstantiated rumor says the true cause is that AT&T ran out of IPV4 addresses and that borked the system. Did AT&T buy any blocks of addresses in the past few days?