[geeks] Bastards! ;^)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 16:48, Ken Hansen wrote:
> My IT group is on to me... ;^)
> 
> I just got back from moving my office to it's new home, and I am *pissed*.
> 
> First, my office has 2x Cat 5 network ports, plus a PBX phone line - great!
> 
> They wire in my desktop into D3 (Data jack #3), Data Jack #4 is empty.
> 
> The local network is DHCP, so I try and plug in my Win2K laptop in Jack D4 -
> NOTHING.
> 
> I go to the wiring closet, and D4 is not jumpered into the Cisco switch, so
> I reach into the box of jumper cables, and do so.
> 
> NOTHING.
> 
> I plug my laptop into D3 (removing my Workstation), and it lites up fine.
> 
> So I go into the wiring closet and take a closer look - they pulled half the
> wires off my D4 jack (Orange/OrangeWhite & and Blue/BlueWhite)! A close
> examination indicates that the wires were in the jack, but got pulled, and
> my secondary jack is the only one pulled/disconnected!

Don't you have a 110 punch-down tool handy to fix that sort of thing? 
In a pinch, I just use the blade from my multi-tool.  :)

> Oh, and their DHCP connection only provides an IP and gateway address - DNS
> is not provided, and they are blocking all IPs outside their DHCP IP range
> is seems, since I can't ping their ISPs DNS servers. This is a remote
> office, and everyone has PCs that are only Citrix clients, everyone that get
> internet access has (I assume) hard-coded DNS IPs...

This just sounds like Bad Admins, or people in favor of making things
more dificult than they need to be.
	Greg