> Allegedly, he once removed an IPv4 address by mistake from one student's computer. He only heard about it half a year later, when the student casually mentioned that only Google, Facebook and other big sites seem to work. Apparently, if Google, Facebook, and the School's website works, it's acceptable to most (which is sad for different reasons, but that's not my point).
The fact that the "sad part" is that the student only uses big tech websites and not that this netop was able to do something like this with no alerting or guardrails says a lot about HN's culture these days.
In general I wonder what kind of alerting these dorm ISPs run. Do they ever do reachability tests for devices on their network?
The fact that the "sad part" is that the student only uses big tech websites and not that this netop was able to do something like this with no alerting or guardrails says a lot about HN's culture these days.
In general I wonder what kind of alerting these dorm ISPs run. Do they ever do reachability tests for devices on their network?