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Update on the Hell Computer:
Aug. 6th, 2003 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellFinally broke down and called AT&T support.
Spoke to a decently competent tech. Went along with everything he suggested, laughing softly every time it failed. He and I hemmed and hawed, and grumbled, and finally he brought a senior tech into the fray.
The fix: Search all files and folders for "hosts." Find a file called "hosts" with no extension. Deleted. Rebooted. Tested. It worked.
All this shit...over one file. Bah.
Spoke to a decently competent tech. Went along with everything he suggested, laughing softly every time it failed. He and I hemmed and hawed, and grumbled, and finally he brought a senior tech into the fray.
The fix: Search all files and folders for "hosts." Find a file called "hosts" with no extension. Deleted. Rebooted. Tested. It worked.
All this shit...over one file. Bah.
