[55199] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 routing issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sat Jan 25 18:36:26 2003
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:23:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
Cc: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>,
Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>,
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0301260008430.21274-100000@meron.openu.ac.il>
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
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> ## On 2003-01-25 20:04 -0000 Stephen J. Wilcox typed:
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> SJW>
> SJW>
> SJW> Heres my advice to the uninitiated. Run linux, run firewalls, disable what you
> SJW> dont need and listen to folks who have real world experience.
> SJW>
> SJW> Steve
> SJW>
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> Please don't start a flame war about this but are you implying that the
> Major Linux distributions are the "most secure" Unix-like OS
> (at least out of the box) ???
I hadnt really thought about it, I was just offering my approach to running
servers on the public Internet
Dont read too much into it, I wasnt suggesting that snippet as the absolute way
to connect to the internet.. it was preceded by a discussion on where folks
place their database servers..
Steve
