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> I wonder if I am the only one that loves debugging difficult/weird problems. Same here. At times, I'd prefer to just work on debugging things for colleagues

• toast0 6y ago
  It helps to have colleagues that break things in interesting ways. ;) Also important is a supportive manager, and a 'real job' that is usually time flexible; you might need to drop what you're working on to debug an issue when it's happening, so that needs to be mostly OK. Or if you like networking challenges, having widely distributed users on diverse platforms and networks, and either running your own load balancers or using DNS or application level balancing, so that you can see the actual network flow, and not only the parts that make it through a load balancer. Of course, it's a lot of frustration when you find the issue, and it's in some random router in some far off locale with no way to contact. Things like the linux large receive offloading bug that would receive larger than MTU packets because of offloading, then drop the packet (and send ICMP needs frag) because it's larger than the MTU of the destination address. I fixed the FreeBSD bad behavior when getting such an ICMP, but it would be nice if systems operating as routers would update their kernels a couple of times a decade. I could (and have, elsewhere) rant about more MTU problems, but let's just say, they're out there, they're stupid, and it's hard to get them fixed. Ugh.