Flying home
I'm sitting here in the Mexico City airport waiting on my flight back to Dallas, so I thought I'd use this time to write a little bit.
Yesterday we finally got our E-1s installed.
WOOO HOOO Last night I was able to get RDP open for external connection, our VOIP phones now receive incoming calls and I have the phone system accessible from outside so I can work on it. Most of my duties have been just sitting a waiting for the E-1s to be installed because our connection through CableMas was a NAT behind a NAT and let me tell ya, boy did that cause all kinds of problems.
I've still got a nigeling issue with my DNS server dropping its Gateway randomly (or at least I think I do). I have been able to "fix" it by either connection to the machine and in the NIC settings removing the Gateway, closing the properties and then readding the gateway. The alternate solution has been to move the cable from NIC 1 to NIC 2. I have updated the drivers for the NICs and I'm still having issues. I wasn't sure if it might have had something to do with CableMas up until now. I haven't actually been back to the building since last night and I know there was some kind of problem this morning, but I'm not sure what it was yet. I just had Mario swap the cable to the other NIC. Last night I had the servers automatically install patches and reboot, so I'm not sure if that had a residual issue or if the NIC dropped the Gateway. Just a few unknowns at this point. Once I get to where I can connect to the server again I'll be able to check on things.
I'm really excited to get home and see the family. I've been missing them both quite a bit lately. It has been a month since I've seen Emily except by web cam. Boy, I sure am glad I was single when I was in the military. I saw that it was hard on the guys and their families, and I knew I didn't want to go through that, but this gives me a little glimpse of it. I couldn't imagine not seeing them for a year.
I'm not sure how long I'll be in Dallas yet, fortunately right now I can do everything I need to do from anywhere that has an internet connection. (Boy do I love that part of my job!!!)
I'm waiting beside my gate and the plane is supposed to take off in 15 min, they haven't even made an announcement about boarding yet.
It's always interesting around here. OK here is security. Got to go.