[AG-TECH] Fwd: Tyler's Missing Server

Jim Farrar farrar at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Apr 10 11:56:46 CDT 2001


>I thought everyone would get a kick out of this.  Talk about 
>reliability.  Four years and it didn't need a re-boot.
>
>
> >From Today's Information Week:
>
>** Server 54, Where Are You?
>
>The University of North Carolina has finally found a network
>server that, although missing for four years, hasn't missed a
>packet in all that time.
>
>Try as they might, university administrators couldn't find the
>server. Working with Novell, IT workers tracked it down by
>meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a
>wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by
>maintenance workers. - John Rendleman
>
>
>
>
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