What’s the Weirdest Stuff You’ve Seen on Your Network?
Ok, network people, time to stand up and be counted. Or at very least, do some counting.
By default, my firewall at work gives me a list of the top twenty five sites visited, among other things. Every now and then I look at this list, especially when I’m feeling a lot of good will toward my fellow workers. I see the most odd and bizarre things… I figured I’d share some of them with you and you could enlighten me as to what you find on your network.
The main thing I find is that people aren’t all that interested in working. We have only one policy: no streaming (because it eats up bandwidth). Perhaps because of this, but maybe not, people feel entitled to surf on company time. Never mind that they are free to go wherever they want during their free time, they prefer to surf all day long.
Here are some recent hits from the Firewall’s Top Twenty-Five Sites Visited:
- victoriassecret.com
- nudeafrica.com (comes up a few times a year)
- espn.com (always in the top ten)
- aol.com (of course)
- weather.com or weatherbug.com (from people sitting by windows, no doubt)
- various women’s shoe stores
- various women’s clothing store
- various permutations of facebook.com
Sometimes we have to look really hard to find a single work-related site in the entire top twenty five.
The owner of the company would never stand for censorship so the only things blocked are related to streaming or bandwidth hogs. We do not block porn and up until very recently, this was not an issue. When you work in an open environment, if you have porn on your screen, everyone around you will notice. This helps keep things to a minimum.
Unfortunately what the geniuses who go to nudeafrica.com don’t realize is that the sites come up on reports. You, who just made a huge, booming deal about having to come in and work on Saturday to get your job done, have been snagged. Not even the very liberal owner of the company will be able to understand what midgetswithdonkeys.com has to do with getting your job done.
We don’t care what sites you visit. As of this moment, no one Up Top has asked us for any of the reports we get. But the next time you decided to download the entire eight movie series of MILFY Soccer Grandmoms, bringing the entire network to a virtual crawl, don’t get pissed at us when we tell people what the slowdown was.
What’s on YOUR network?
4 Comments
Brian
February 23rd, 2009
at 9:35pm
Haha that must suck to get sniped by your boss like that! So can everyone view that top 25 list?
the oracle
February 23rd, 2009
at 11:23pm
When I used to work at a T-Mobile store, I was the asst mgr and also the elected local repair man. I always found lots of little visits to the online games sites – the really big time wasters. I used to tell them that, since they were on commission, they were writing their own checks. OTOH, anything I saw could be also seen further up the chain, and they might not take kindly to wasting time online versus doing customer presentations.
Once I did find a guy who was visiting a site called magnificent-mammaries.com – he only lasted a couple of weeks, but it was not based on that. He couldn’t sell water to people on fire.
lenswipe
February 24th, 2009
at 5:17am
The weirdest thing ive ever seen on my network is when i went to check the DHCP table on my DHCP server and there was a hostname there and MAC address that matched none of my computers – a hacker you might say?
Well maybe(im on WPA2), but the weirdest thing was is that the hostname was just a single cross sorta like this: ♰ although not as fancy, there were no lines at the end of the crossmembers. It was weird never seen it before or since.. O_o
David
February 24th, 2009
at 8:23am
The weirdest was when the whole network went totally weird. You almost couldn’t go on 1 single site without waiting for like 10 minutes. So I tried Speedtest.net. The same speed as before this, 6.95 mbit/s. Now it works perfectly. Like “?!”