Well, the networking losers here in the ECE building decided to have a major scheduled downtime today. They sent out a fairly uninformative email, but at least did have the courtesey to let us know beforehand. They claimed a 12 hour block of time for the project and gave no details other than it was gonna be big.
At like 6pm, they stopped working on things – without bringing everything back up – and went off to dinner. They got back at around 8:30 and I went in to ask them a few questions. I was brushed off in a rather uncouth manner.
However, after 15 more minutes of banging on things, I have finally figured out a way to get my servers -back- onto the internet. They changed our gateway’s ip address w/o any notice and would have just left me to rot.
Grumble.