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I was poking around on the list of open support questions this morning, and got to someone who wanted to know why she'd been sent a password reminder. No, LJ doesn't do that automatically.
The asker included the IP address given in the email as having made the request. Okay, let's see what this leads to, if anything.
The easiest way to do that is to log in to the Panix shell, and do an nslookup. Quick and easy.
Logging in to the Panix shell gets me the Panix message of the day (of course). At the moment, the motd is a notice that tomorrow's Panix picnic, which I was thinking of going to, has been cancelled (with pointers to more info; it turns out that there's a Panixian funeral at the same time). I probably wouldn't have bothered with panix.motd.social before heading out unless the weather looked iffy, which would have left a very confused Redbird alone behind Cleopatra's Needle.
As is, I learned something useful for myself, and the questioner, I hope, will find out what she needed to know.
The asker included the IP address given in the email as having made the request. Okay, let's see what this leads to, if anything.
The easiest way to do that is to log in to the Panix shell, and do an nslookup. Quick and easy.
Logging in to the Panix shell gets me the Panix message of the day (of course). At the moment, the motd is a notice that tomorrow's Panix picnic, which I was thinking of going to, has been cancelled (with pointers to more info; it turns out that there's a Panixian funeral at the same time). I probably wouldn't have bothered with panix.motd.social before heading out unless the weather looked iffy, which would have left a very confused Redbird alone behind Cleopatra's Needle.
As is, I learned something useful for myself, and the questioner, I hope, will find out what she needed to know.
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