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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Well my entire network doc is a 30ish lines .txt file that looks like this example:

    • Hostname11 10.0.0.11 master db1
    • Hostname12 10.0.0.12 db1 backup
    • Hostname13 10.0.0.13 ui back end 1
    • Hostname21 10.0.0.21 master db2
    • Hostname22 10.0.0.22 db2 backup
    • Hostname23 10.0.0.23 ui back end 2

    Then some other general stuff on some other 10.0.1.x network etc

    Once you take care assigning static blocks and it makes sense you don’t have any surprises. Db1 crashed? Lookup its config data, reinstall machine, recover from backup and nothing else needs to be configured.






  • Dhcp and ensuring it works is someting I don’t care about. I tell the kernel wich packets it should be interested in and how to sign itself and that will be it thank you very much.

    I configure static routes and have all my machines and network segments neatly arranged in my database. I setup a new machine I know exactly what address it should have,it goes up and until it has a problem it will keep the address it was installed with.

    Its 2026 I work like that, you can have your opinions I have mine. The difference is that I depend on one less thing that I don’t care about, so I have more profit margin.