This thing goes all the way to the top
Heh.
So, all that ranting I did about the network admins at the bren school? It’s gradually dawned on me, and has now been confirmed empirically, that the entire UCSB network, which I think is all of 128.111, is off limits. Been over 48 hours now. It seems I actually pissed off the intrusion detection system of the whole university. i.e. a state agency. heh.
So tomorrow I have to go to the university network services department (wherever it is- I can’t exactly look for it on the web if I can’t browse www.ucsb.edu), hat in hand, et al, to try to get them to take me off their list.
This makes the severity of their response all the more surprising. I guess it’s good I waited until they hired me back before this happened. Still not absolutely sure that this is the correct diagnosis, but I can’t imagine anything else. I guess I owe the bren staff an apology. For all I know, network services made them take down ssh.
[ my critique about secure imap still stands ..]
Boy is my face red.
Addendum 2009-06-03 10:28 AM
network connectivity appears to be back to normal; I can again browse the ucsb web and check email from home. No need to look up the information security office after all! Yay!