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I taught their tech how traceroute works

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#1

The ticket said... "our website is slow, please fix"

I'm not even a customer of OVHcloud, but I got looped into this because my colleague forwarded it. I look at the domain, run a traceroute from my home connection, paste the output. The tech asks me to "explain what these numbers mean."

So I teach him traceroute. Hop by hop. Latency concepts. What * means. He takes notes. I bill zero dollars for this training session.

Three weeks later, same tech, same company, new ticket: "can you teach us how mtr works too?"

reported. resolved. repeat.
#2

This is why you never engage with provider support beyond absolute minimum!!! They remember you!!! They will farm you for free knowledge!!!

WARNING: now you're in their internal wiki as "traceroute guy"!!! What if they sell that data!!! You should have demanded compensation!!! fail2ban their emails!!!

airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried

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