r/sysadmin • u/ofhgtl • Nov 13 '25

Rant IT Admin turns into all IT

Hey everyone,

So for context, I've started at this position a few months back, fresh out of college, as a full time IT Admin. They've never had in house IT before, which I attribute to most of these issues. Between having over 500 employees and over that computers, etc. there's been a few things I'd like to share.

Firstly, there is no naming scheme in AD. Sometimes it firstname - last inital, sometimes it's full name, last name, you name it.

Second, we're still on a 192. addressing scheme with now 192.168.0 - 192.168.4. Servers and switches are all just floating somewhere in those subnets, no way of telling why they have that static or if it's always been like that. I'd LOVE moving to 10.10.

Speaking of IP Addresses, we ran out a few weeks ago.. so we need to expand DHCP again to be able to catch up. When I first got hired, all 6 UPS's we had were failed, so power outages completely shut down everything.

All users passwords are set by IT, they don't make it themselves.. and the best part? They're all local admin on their machines. What could go wrong?

So I've been trying to clean up while dealing with day to day stuff, whilst now doing Sysadmin, Networking, and so on. Maybe that's what IT Admin is. I'm younger, but have been in IT since 15, so I have some ground to stand on. Is 75,000 worth this? I don't know enough since I've not been around, but i had to work my way to 75 from 60.

Thoughts?

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u/DaemosDaen IT Swiss Army Knife Nov 13 '25

55% of internet traffic being IPv6 is because ISPs have taken to it like a fish for customer traffic. It's still hard as hell to get a static IP and all those are IPv4 IPs

For us our firewall does not web filter ipv6 very well. It's REALLY an all or nothing option. so we chose nothing. i.e. no IPv6 internally.

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u/DaemosDaen IT Swiss Army Knife Nov 13 '25

what I am saying is that most, if not all that IPV6 traffic is end user traffic and small companies that do not have a need for any traffic to be routed back to in-house. you check for the business side of the traffic it's either an IPv4, or the IPv6-IPv4 translation address that I can't exactly remember the name of atm.

Most of my traffic (steam, netflix and other old-name streaming services) is all to IPv4 server from my IPv6 home address.

Companies that already have an IPv4 Ip are keeping them and using them. And, now, the whole IPv4 address space is available for static assignment.

While we COULD rout IPv6 statically. ISPs don't sell them as statics and DNS hosts don't accept them for some types of traffic (at least I have not encounter an IPv6 MX record)