[RKDinOKC]

Reminded that not all the morons are out driving around today...

Our "Network Manager" called an employee that left the company 3 years ago to do some consulting work on our network. It had to do with network security. Know this because the ex-employee sent me a message to change the public VPN backup IP addresses. No biggy, logged into Domain Registrar and made the DNS Host changes.

An hour after making the DNS changes receiving email from outside our network stops. After a few minutes diagnostics discover some of the DNS entries required for hosted exchange have been deleted. None of the other DNS entries, just some of the Exchange entries. Was able to re-enter them and get the mail flow going again...BUT

Why are they calling an outside person to manage our network security? I can do that and even have certification for it. AND, Why is the IT Director (he is the only other person with the password) going in an monkeying with DNS host file?

I've got the DNS host thing taken care of. I am a wholesaler with the Domain Registrar, the company Domain Registry and DNS hosting is in a sub account of my personal wholesale account. Talked to the registrar and added the ability to my wholesale account to do some things most Users can't. First I can tag a domain i.e. anytime there is a change the the host file I am sent an email alert. Also can create and restore backups of the host file and force replication to the various servers. Cool.

I've only been doing this stuff since 1991.