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BARRACUDA NETWORKS ESS INTERNAL MAIL ROUTING – RELOADED

When my customer was trying to email an external domain, they would receive an NDR with the error below. Inbound messages from that domain were being received by my customer without an issue. 550 5.7.51 TenantInboundAttribution; There is a partner connector configured...

Barracuda Networks ESS Internal Mail Routing

I ran into an email delivery issue the other day that seems likely to come up here and there. My customer could receive email inbound from a domain of a vendor they do business with, but suddenly could no longer send messages to them outbound. All I had to go on was...

Any Common Sense?

SME (SONY Music Entertainment, Inc.) does it again. Those brave soldiers of greed have once again set forth on the field of battle to save the world from another bit of free enjoyment. Let me clarify one thing – I am a capitalist. The 99% Occupy Wallstreet types out...

Etherchannel/LAG Dell VRTX & Cisco Catalyst Switch

If you read my previous Kaboom post, you may be wondering why I decided to post on another Dell VRTX. Well, the fact is I’ve still got a few of these out in the field, so they remain relevant to me. This is a another customer’s deployment and I just upgraded them from...

Dell VRTX EXPLODES, well not really…

This post is an archive from my old blog that I had to recover from a backup after InMotion Hosting (never make the mistake of hosting with them, by the way) botched a migration and deleted that site. The post below was from events that occurred around 2018 or so...

The Network Time Machine

“We are consolidating VLANs to simplify the network.” – So said a CIO in a request for me to come in to consult on a LAN “upgrade” project.  The idea was to take my design below that ran beautifully for years: Into something like this: Like going back in time Now, for...