This is lovely. At just after 5:00pm Pacific Time, our email server simply stopped communicating over the network. TCP/IP and IPX connectivity simply vanished, though the Groupwise NLMs continued to chug along, oblivious to their castaway status.

Over half an hour later, and I’m still waiting for the “DOWN” command to complete so I can reboot the thing. And no, I’m not terribly inclined to hard-reset this box. It’s ornery enough as it is without throwing graceless drive dismounts into the equation.

And even when/if I get it running again, there are two more worrries: Restarting the voicemail server, and wondering what the hell went wrong… and if it’s likely to happen again.

Gee, couldn’t be that corporate-mandated Service Pack install, could it? Nah. That couldn’t possibly be it. No way.