Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 on the internet

["Franklin S Werren" <fswerren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I would use the Raq 2 OS on that Qube 2
if you have enough memory...  I have 256 megs of ram
I did have the Qube 2 os on 16 megs of ram
and it did work fine... But I tinkered.... (grin!)
But I lke the ability to host more Domains on my Qube 2..
More goodies to play with....
BTW I have port 80 for Web and Port 25 for incomming mail
via my Linksys router. No other ports open....

Franklin S. Werren  www.bagpipes.net   www.chautauqualake.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andrew smith" <aksmith@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 on the internet


> Thats great.
> I'll make sure port 80 is the only open option and get cracking..
> Some people mentioned the Apache bugs on the Qube - what specific 
> Apache problems are there?
> 
> 
> cheers for info, I'll look through the archive.
> 
> Mac.
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 Jan 2004, at 21:53, Brian wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 03:00 PM, 
> > cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> Is a hackable qube? or pretty secure?
> >>
> >
> > I asked this  in Nov/ December, the replies I got are in the list 
> > archive.
> >
> > In summary,  the Qube 2 seems more hackable than alternatives, it was 
> > recommended to put it behind a NAT for sure, and run security utils 
> > that would let me know if someone was messing around with it. The 
> > updates from Sun for these are not super current.   I do know a couple 
> > people who use them for web/ftp/mail and they haven't had problems to 
> > date, and certainly no one is posting here frequently saying "I'm 
> > hacked".
> >
> > My conclusion, which may or may not be right for you,  is that 
> > although it seems possible to make them secure if you really want to 
> > do it, to do so would take a bit of involvement on your part, and even 
> > then might not be ideal.  Not to mention the hardware limitations in 
> > the Cobalt kernel.  There are a couple of people on this list who 
> > provide professional custom support for Cobalt stuff who might have 
> > some help, too, but it might be paid professional help. There was at 
> > one time a pretty comprehensive archive (apparently) of prepared items 
> > for the Qube 2, but it's offline now.
> >
> >  It may be a do-it-yourself for you, but it was more than I wanted to 
> > mess with, I put a different OS on my Qube 2 that has more current and 
> > ready-to-compile-or-run software readily available.
> >
> > I think most people put it behind a Linksys or similar home NAT box, 
> > and limit the ports that are forwarded to it, and are pretty much 
> > fine.  I especially wanted a big HD and to run some items that would 
> > be hard/impossible for me to get going on the Cobalt OS.
> >
> > Brian
> >
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