LOL Not really, but boy it has been a day. Started at 7:00 am and I finally resolved (?) the issue. In fact I’ve got through every last bit of my network, and at this point in the evening, I actually don’t have a solid reason why the issue was present. Something in my VPN settings glitched, or something got triggered on pFsense and got hung up…something, something with Tailscale. It wasn’t CLoudflare this time. LOL

You ever do so much to a problem that when you ‘fix’ it, you have no real idea what the fix truly was? You ever have a problem and find all the shit you cobbled together in the name of ‘just get it running and back online’? I did, and decided that I would fix that shit too. It took all flippin’ day.

You guys that do this for a living…I salute you! jebus crispies!

ETA: 8 bells and all’s well today.

  • dotslashme@infosec.pubEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    Man, I know that feeling. One thing that helped me better deal with issues like this, was to have a changelog. Basically I write down what a setting was, what I changed it to and a reason. If something goes wrong, I can at least undo what changes I’ve made and see if it helps. It’s not perfect, but it might shave some hours off a RCA.

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      This is what led me to set up SnipeIT and keep a log on every change on each device. It gets wild as the devices and services increase.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        SnipeIT

        I’ve seen the app rolling around in Awesome Lists, but always thought it was for larger operations with a lot of infrastructure and not necessarily a home lab. I might look into it seriously.

          • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I’ll check it out. I do keep prolific notes on everything I do, however they need to be more structured and searchable. Right now I’m using Trillium but it has it’s limitations for what I want it to do. Nice piece of software tho.

            • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              I tried trillium, but turns out I can’t organize anything to save my life, so now I run Obsidian for notes and snipe for all my networks and devices.

              • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                1·
                5 hours ago

                I tried Obsidian, and it is a very capable piece of software. However, I wanted it to run in a docker container. Running in a container, it uses KasmVNC. So, every doccument you wish to save in Obsidian, you first have to paste into KasmVNC’s clipboard, then paste it into the doccument. I found that quite clumsy.

                If I’m doing it wrong, please share. Obsidian was my first choice.