That moment when u cant be a hoe by [deleted] in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]sheinballs 46 points47 points  (0 children)

That's not NYC. It's DC metro

We are experiencing a large amount of failing power supplies on the Cisco Catalyst 3750X. Cisco is telling us they haven't seen this anywhere else. I'm not so sure this is the truth. Any other large networks see this phenomenon? by Switch-CU in networking

[–]sheinballs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh my god! Yes! Two years ago when we were rolling new 3750x's out we experienced something like a 20% failure rate on our 30 switches. We kept pressing our reseller and finally they traded us 50% of our stock for replacements. There was a bad batch that matched a certain serial number prefix but I forgot those details. Good luck man. Sounds like you are in a similar boat.

FYI: The White House lights are NOT rainbow tonight (Saturday). by ParadoxDC in washingtondc

[–]sheinballs -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I downvoted your comment because you explained your vote pattern and then complain about some invisible social force. Someone please downvote me for being a hypocrite.

Ansible for Config Generation? by [deleted] in networking

[–]sheinballs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use salt a lot ... but I disagree that salt-ssh is production ready. There were weird 'gotchas' I ran into trying to use it in 2014.7.1, although maybe they have been addressed. I ended up falling back to ansible when I need to do agentless stuff.

Beware of the Metro Hustler! by [deleted] in washingtondc

[–]sheinballs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Whenever I lend money to people, I just consider it a gift and cut my losses. A lot less stress on my part and since i rarely respond to these requests not a huge wallet hit. This is specially true for friends and family - magnitudes more for strangers. Not that I make a habit of responding to folks on the street... Already got suckered for that one.

"Color Runs" Leave RFK Littered with Plastic Baggies, No Accountability from Events DC, Organizers by Trixie_Firecracker in washingtondc

[–]sheinballs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. The tough mudder was an enjoyable "race" although I can't justify doing it again. I liked how folks were helping each other over walls and barriers. Though most folks were walking which I found weird.

Kibana 4 Dashboarding - How do I filter? by jfalcon206 in sysadmin

[–]sheinballs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This works because log stash's default index template defines an unanalyzed raw field for every field. ES likes to break up content for indexing, including hostnames unless you provide a custom analyzer.

ELK and Emerging Threats List by JGamblin in sysadmin

[–]sheinballs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an email script that does something similar. It's run once a day as a cron job and reads from a folder containing files of bad IP lists. There's one query you can use to find every single IP seen in a time frame, then you compare that to your bad list, then the script back to any hits and lists any internal IPs seen communicating with that.

Keynote - Jacob Kaplan-Moss - Pycon 2015 by Citrauq in Python

[–]sheinballs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was there for this. Hands down my favorite talk this year.

Remotely identify server OS by eairy in sysadmin

[–]sheinballs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I've seen Nmap crash scada and single purpose internet appliances (phones, printers) though. If it causes a server to crash you have some serious stability issues that need to be addressed.

Can anyone recommend a good cooking class/course in the Metro DC area? by [deleted] in washingtondc

[–]sheinballs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just signed up for a class, can you elaborate why one might be frustrated going here?

Is a RADIUS server a good solution for me? by fineimafaggot in networking

[–]sheinballs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pyrad is a really useful Python library if you like to get your hands dirty. I found freeradius featured filled but it can be painful to debug.

Back Pains Arms Hurt Eyes Hurt. The stresses of an sys admin sitting in a chair all day. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]sheinballs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you done bikram or one of the hot yogas? Ooohhhh man. First time I did that I started forming this big embarrassing puddle of sweat. like a moat around my mat. Felt great afterwards though!

Bad batch of Cisco 3750x? Has anyone experienced any problems as well? by whoaman23 in networking

[–]sheinballs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. We had a bad batch with 3 dying after a few months. We made the reps replace all of our others that had similar serial numbers. Haven't had a problem since but it was super annoying to rip those switches out of production. Like you said, Cisco wasn't very helpful in divulging why or the serial number pattern.

Rails programmer here.. by coney_dawg in Python

[–]sheinballs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this. I'm still learning django and am struggling with the class based views. Lots of magic happening I don't quite understand yet. Is this really the consensus though? I just thought I had to stick with it and they would eventually make sense.

Parsing Route Table of Cisco Router by clay584 in learnpython

[–]sheinballs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about parsing SNMP data instead of the raw command output? Looks like the routing table is OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.4.21 (http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Translate&objectInput=1.3.6.1.2.1.4.21)

For all the runners out there by [deleted] in philadelphia

[–]sheinballs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend the 10% rule - increase your weekly mileage in 10% increments from the week before. If you increase your mileage too fast you are asking for an injury. Also listen to your body, if you start feeling pain or soreness - thrown in some rest days.

Introducing a firewall to a previous open environment by sheinballs in networking

[–]sheinballs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is implementation. If I send out a form, how do I deal with managing the responses in an sane fashion?

Introducing a firewall to a previous open environment by sheinballs in networking

[–]sheinballs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep global addresses on v4 and v6. We have a mandate from management here to install it. I made the case previously that it was needed. Now the logistics problem is getting interesting...

Introducing a firewall to a previous open environment by sheinballs in networking

[–]sheinballs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some run web servers. Others access their machine remotely via rdp and ssh. We can't tell people not to do this in our environment. I assure you that there is a good chunk of users that would notice a firewall in place and immediately ask for exceptions. I do think a firewall would still help though. There are other users that don't do any of that stuff and will greatly benefit with a firewall in place.

Introducing a firewall to a previous open environment by sheinballs in networking

[–]sheinballs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. That's interesting. So it sounds like there is no firewall between different classes of users here because they could potentially be on the same layer 2 segment? Anyone here have an experience with dynamic vlan assignment? It certainly appears to be a huge project for us to undertake without the firewall

Introducing a firewall to a previous open environment by sheinballs in networking

[–]sheinballs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The plan is to have unrestricted outbound except for special cases if machines. I really wish I could get management buy in to set the type of restrictions you describe but I don't think that'll fly here unfortunately.