Okay, recently I had my computer broken into remotely and I've been spending the last two weeks rebuilding all of the computers in the house. I'm still extremely paranoid, so anytime something weird happens on my desktop, I get freaked out.
Just now I tried to emerge sync, for the first time in several days. I noticed that in the "hardware" line where it usually has a small line about the hardware of the server I'm sync'ing with, there was no information (just a comma) and this freaked me out because I usually see the hardware info, so I hit ctrl-c and now I'm double checking that the IP and domain name of the server in the rsync rotation makes sense, and a preliminary investigation indicates that it doesn't make sense, at least to me. The server it synced to was raptor.gentoo.org, and the stated IP address was 128.193.0.161. However, as far as I can tell, that IP address is in fact hillary.x.osuosl.org, and raptor.gentoo.org is 140.211.166.165. Now, I know that there is a rotation going on so maybe both of those machines are rsync mirrors and it's just the database that needs to be updated or something, but I'm really paranoid about my system's security right now so I am checking out every little thing that goes wrong or that seems weird as best as I can. I'm using the default RSYNC variable in make.globals, rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage So is this discrepancy between domain name and IP address something to be concerned about, or am I a bit touchy right now? --Ed -- "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." --Bertrand Russell. "The American empire is ideological, not territorial. We are the most ideological people in the world, and we are so united in our view that we don't understand there can be other views." --Lt. Gen. William Odom, ret. (Former Director of NSA). "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." --Charlie Brown "Let us endeavour to live our lives so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." --Mark Twain -- [email protected] mailing list
