It’s closing in on the last minutes before I’m done with the first week at my new job. I’ve learned allot of new stuff, like how to register new domains, update existing domains and transfer old ones in the Norid system. I’ve also finally gotten a better look at how our mail system works, so I can actually sort it and have it the way it’s supposed to be.

There has been allot of stuff happening today though, but I’ve not been a part of it, seeing as I mostly do the paper pushing, and don’t take any phones, but to sum it all up:

• Several servers had problems with the mail service, which made mail have up to 6 hours delay.
• More servers had load of up to 10 (which is quite allot on Linux servers) which made several pages cease to work.
• Hackers had managed to intercept some SSH keys and compromised one (or more of our servers) and installed a rootkit.

All of this was fixed by the end of the day though, so no harm done. Our Polish server admin set new root passwords and we took down the source of the problem, an internal server at work that had been hijacked and drained for passwords.

Now I’m going to meet up with some friends in town, shopping and probably grab a coffee :)