On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:28:26PM -0500, Dan Monjar wrote: > > which might explain why I got no other replies <grin>...
And then there are the stories about the "forgotten" servers. > as far as security > Turnpike Man called it right. The only thing this machines does is service > internal DNS queries. You can't get to it through the Internet. If you > are sitting on my internal network you can get to it and I suppose you > could hack into it if you really wanted to. But it wouldn't get you much. > I haven't updated the kernel because it works for what I need it to do. > But that doesn't mean I haven't updated the other components. I tend to > install minimal systems and then compile the other programs I need from the > source, at least for my servers. I just never got into the 'install the > binaries from the rpm' state of mind. It just not how I like to do things. Heh. I did that too until I discovered apt. -- When the correction first comes, we tend to underreact. While we do not like the surprise, we tend to think of it as maybe a one-time thing. Things, we believe, will soon get back to normal. We do not scale back our expectations sufficiently. It apparently takes years for this to work itself out. - John Mauldin -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
