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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: rayvt 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Some excitement
Date: 01/28/24 10:23 PM
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"denial of service attack" protection erroneously executing from *my own use* of the server in upgrading the smallest thing, and the server thinking I was attacking it. The server then locked itself to protect,

Ha! I had something similar. I have an always-on raspberrypi that pings my main desktop computer to send out an alarm if the desktop hasn't been on for an entire day. Been working fine forever. A couple of months ago I ditched the third-party firewall on the desktop and replaced it with the Windows Firewall Control. Seems the default is to block all incoming pings, even from the home network.
Oops!

The monitoring program then ran around with its hair on fire, sending out alerts & alarms.

Glad you got it back working.
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
BRK: Why Not XOM? · 62 recs · 2024
Second quarter comments · 60 recs · 2023
Berkshire's Profit Contributors · 57 recs · 2023
Summary of 2Q 2026 · 54 recs · 2026
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