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zztzed · 07-20-2003, 11:53 PM

Dumbest thing I ever did was delete the default route on a friend's machine that I was adminning while he was out of town. The machine was in New Jersey; I'm in South Carolina, so obviously I couldn't exactly just drive up and fix it. (Especially since I couldn't even drive at the time. I still can't, actually...

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I don't remember why I did it, or why I was even messing with the routing table at all. I just thought, "okay, need to delete the default route and readd it ... route del default, then route add default gw ..." ... I got up to about 'rou' and then the machine realized it didn't have a default route and stopped talking to me. And then about five seconds later I realized what I had done.

Needless to say, that's one mistake I'll never make again.

07-20-2003, 11:53 PM	#22 (permalink)
zztzed Tilted Location: Here and there	Dumbest thing I ever did was delete the default route on a friend's machine that I was adminning while he was out of town. The machine was in New Jersey; I'm in South Carolina, so obviously I couldn't exactly just drive up and fix it. (Especially since I couldn't even drive at the time. I still can't, actually... ) I don't remember why I did it, or why I was even messing with the routing table at all. I just thought, "okay, need to delete the default route and readd it ... route del default, then route add default gw ..." ... I got up to about 'rou' and then the machine realized it didn't have a default route and stopped talking to me. And then about five seconds later I realized what I had done. Needless to say, that's one mistake I'll never make again. __________________ "It seemed to me that if humanoids eat chicken, then obviously they'd eat their own species, otherwise they'd just be picking on the chickens."