NFS question..

[Christopher Wagner]

Well, I do trust the ISP we're about to switch to, but I don't trust our
current ISP..

As far as our Unixware box, I'd love to shoot this thing..  The thread
scheduling is terrible and the box doesn't allow me to properly kill defunct
processes, either (I have to reboot if I really want to kill the defunct
processes).  As soon as our database vendor announces a platform change for
Unixware (and they probably will in about a year), we'll switch to Linux.
If we switch before then, we'll have to pay a considerable amount of money.

I've decided to delay my back-up project for now..  Maybe a couple months
down the road, I will resume it.

- Christopher Wagner
chrisw at pacaids.com

Packaging Aids Corporation - Information Systems
P.O. Box 9144
San Rafael, CA 94912-9144
http://www.pacaids.com/
(415) 454-4868 x116


-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Cox [mailto:brad at linuxbofh.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 1:39 AM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: Re: NFS question..


On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:15:58PM -0700, ME wrote:
> If you did not pre-obfuscate these, then a would be attacker has enough
> information to launch an attack. So far, the mailing list has not been
> archived to a web readable format, but I am sure that may change.

Ahem...  Ask and you shall be told you already had it...

http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse?command=monthbythread&list=talk

There are links for all three lists on the info page of the website
and an annoucement somewhere.

BTW, my two+ cents on the issue of NFS over dsl, presumably without an
encrypted channel of some means or another:
Do you really trust your DSL provider?

(Envision a typical sysadmin, shaking his head no.)

And for backups?

(Imagine your boss, asking for a file, that, for the purposes of this
exercise, is full of passwords.)

Also, can we shoot that Unixware box yet?  From what I have seen on
this list, it causes much more trouble than it would take to put
whatever it is running onto something better, like Linux, which might
make it a bit easier to set up a secure channel for UDP (I would
suggest VTun [vtun.sourceforge]).

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