Well, Pay day is always a good day. After all, how could it not be?
So anyway, not a bad day. There were no major problems, just a few follow up ones. The only major thing was our old ISP going down and taking Joe’s DNS with it, which kept everyone from accessing our stuff as well.
I talked to Joe several times today. I always love interacting with the guys at ACS. They’re such total idiots and really don’t have a clue what is going on with their own equipment. They’re a lot like BellSouth, only without any professionalism at all. The first 2 hours and 4 phone calls are always spent trying to convince them that we’ve actually done everything we can do to check and make sure everything on our end is actually working properly. After that, we never actually get any type of admission of guilt, we just somehow eventually get them to fix everything. In between, we only get yelled at for messing with the equipment they say is working fine, simply trying to fix the problem in a more timely manner than they’re addressing the issue.
Eventually they said that they would send Greg out tomorrow, but he was out at Clemson all morning and wouldn’t be able to get back until after 1:00. So, Joe and I proceeded as if the internet were never going to come back up. This involved Joe setting up some external DNS with a 3rd party provider, which meant he needed copies of all his DNS stuff from the machines he couldn’t access himself.
In the end, everything worked out alright. Joe was up until about midnight keying in all those DNS entries, but other than that, nothing terribly eventful.