June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
21h 28m
English
This chapter's light relief is a true story about networks and system administration.
Trey Harris is a senior systems engineer, and a vice president of SAGE, the System Administrators Guild (www.sage.org). Trust me, if you have a mission-critical server, you want a guy like Trey to keep it running.
A few years ago, Trey was responsible for email at a university in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. One day, a peculiar problem report came in from the Dean of the Statistics Department. The dean reported that there was a 500-mile limit on their email. Email to places closer than about 500 miles was usually delivered just fine. But as the Dean said, “500 miles, or a little bit more, is our ...
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