Step away from the keyboard, ma'am

WARNING! Geek Moment Ahead. Those of you reading who don't care, feel free to skip this post.

So, there are times when, for a professional geek, I'm really kinda dumb.

We had some DNS issues today, which in English means that various machines forgot that they knew each other and therefore stopped talking to each other (computers very much follow the don't talk to strangers rule). It was resolved fairly quickly, and I was down in the Networking side of the building (along with about 50% of ISD) testing the stuff I cared about to make sure it still worked.

Now, when I'm at work I use my personal laptop to connect remotely to my work desktop; it does this by the machine name, which is really just a mapping to my IP address. Usually works very well, and I sometimes forget that I'm not really on the laptop.

So today I was testing, and there was one URL that wouldn't work, but only for me, so they decided it was an issue with my machine, and that releasing and renewing my IP address would fix the issue.

So, still using my laptop, I opened a command window, and typed: ipconfig /release, which promptly released my IP address.....

.....which meant my laptop now couldn't talk to my desktop. Which is not bad, I just walked back to my desk and finished the process.

The bad part, is that I spent several seconds trying to figure out WHY my laptop wouldn't talk to my desktop.

Um, because you TOLD it not to!!!! Doober!!!!

Jeez, I hate when I'm a dope!