| I haven't been able to connect to John Chambers' Tune Finder for | a few days now. Demon said they were doing some maintenance on | their US links but this seems too long an outage to be entirely | their problem.
The machine (trillian.mit.edu) was broken into (despite its being a FreeBSD system ;-), and has been up and down since Sunday as a gang of MIT hackers worked on diagnosing the problem. They say it's back online now, without telnetd, and with recommendations that we all change our passwords, which I did. So if anyone out there has sniffed my password, you'll have to do it all over again now. Things that are on single machines can be unreliable at times. This is especially likely to be true at places like MIT, where there's a firm policy of not having any sort of firewalls. Every machine is connected directly to the Internet, with the intent that MIT people learn as much as they can about security and take care of their own machines. This results in a lot of good resume material, but it can lead to occasional down time when someone finds another exploit. Maybe I should get serious about a couple of backup sites. I do have one on my home machine, but that's where I do most of my development, so you might not want to use it. And it's connected via a cable modem through an ISP that doesn't officially allow servers and is likely to start blocking them at any time. In fact, they are blocking port 80 right now, because of the CodeRed problem. They responded by not just punishing the people who run IIS, but also all of us apache users. My home web server is on a higher port, of course, but still ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
