What Are You Doing Right Now

Found this doing some cleaning - Forgot I had it.

http://kurtmunger.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/June2009/khbcomp.jpg
(The one on the left)

Thinking of ordering a single roll of film.. which is only $14.00

Only.. . or in modern terms $2.50 for 1/16th GB of storage.

EddieJennings

Looking at expanding the ephemeral port range for our production web server.

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking at expanding the ephemeral port range for our production web server.

How does one do that? I mean... you can cut into the non-ephemeral range by a few. But that's risky, weird and gets you essentially nothing. You are really out of ports?

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking at expanding the ephemeral port range for our production web server.

How does one do that? I mean... you can cut into the non-ephemeral range by a few. But that's risky, weird and gets you essentially nothing. You are really out of ports?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc735929(v=ws.10).aspx

This is what we've been trying to troubleshoot for a week and determine what's going on. The other alternative is to reduce the Time_Wait from the default of 240 seconds.

hobbit666

Playing with policies on a Watchguard

hobbit666

And trying not to fall asleep right now

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller Since these ports are being used for as source ports for outbound connections, where is the risk with making more ports available?

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller Since these ports are being used for as source ports for outbound connections, where is the risk with making more ports available?

The risk isn't huge, but the value is also... zero? Where do you plan to get more ports FROM?

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This is what we've been trying to troubleshoot for a week and determine what's going on. The other alternative is to reduce the Time_Wait from the default of 240 seconds.

So several questions...

Why do you have production web on Windows? Not that this is an / the issue, but... why?
This is likely an application coding problem. This isn't something normally encountered by even the busiest websites.
Are you properly reversed proxied? This isn't a problem you expect to see today.
The logical alternative that everyone else does is increasing the size of the web farm.

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller By default Server 2012R2 uses 49,152 - 65,535. I could expand the range to 40,000 - 65,535.

RojoLoco

Trying to resist the urge to smash a user's phone (or the user) with a hammer. He claims that the ringer volume doesn't work, and I asked him why he didn't just get a new phone (again, this happens at least twice a week). I sincerely hope he saw the anger, hatred, and frustration in my eyes, one of which was twitching from having to listen to his <long string of expletives deleted> stupid ass ring tone. He also has a laptop that makes windows sounds (I'd much rather be stabbed in the eye repeatedly with a rusty fish scaler than hear those crappy, over-digitized, horrible windows sounds).

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller By default Server 2012R2 uses 49,152 - 65,535. I could expand the range to 40,000 - 65,535.

Oh, that's weird. Yes, you can expand that for sure. That's still a lot to use, but you can grow quite a lot.