Re: [cobalt-users] commercial list use (Re: [RaQ3] Need PHP packagefor original RaQ3...)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"E.B. Dreger" wrote:

> Might you tell me off-list who?  I'm a bit puzzled by this, and
> frankly don't recall you asking me about this...

Replied offlist.

> Definitely for each client.  I have one client who ignored that
> advice, had a colo client of theirs hacked, and all their
> passwords sniffed, including admin ones.  (They were still using
> telnet.)

As I've said before, we manage all our boxes.  None still use telnet. 
But you make a good point.

> Hence I said stability/security.  If someone mistakenly binds the
> same IP as another system (including router or DNS), it creates a
> race condition which brings things down.

Possible, but with our system quite improbable.  We manage all our
servers, we maintain a good IP# list (at least since I first spoke with
you) and we always ping an IP# both from inside and outside a network,
rather than presume it's available just becaause our list says it is. 
So even if someone has "stolen" the IP# from us and not told us, we'll
catch it before we assign it ourselves.

> I disagree with the "in compliance" bit... but if it's the first
> time in six weeks, that's acceptable.  My error for not following
> the list more closely.

I'm not exagerrating; only quoting myself out of context; I didn't make
posts (at least not that I remember) between October 25 and sometimes
this past week.  While I continue to work for my cleints while in Idaho,
I don't generally check the list from there, nor did I have time for
weeks after I returned.

Jeff
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