Unfortunately for me, my 1.3 box was my opportunity to learn about Linux security. Somebody used it to generate a malformed-packet attack against some DEC Ultrix box at Qwest. That sucked. There's nothing quite like learning the hard way!
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:24, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:07:14PM -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote: > >>From a stability standpoint 1.2 and 1.3 totally rocked. It bugged me > >that the glibc issues made my boxes totally incompatible with everyone > >else's, but judging from the wailing RH users were doing about the early > >glibc2 releases I'm really glad I missed that evilness. > > I didn't forget about 1.2 and 1.3, but was commenting only on the more > recent versions. We still have a couple of 1.3 systems in production (with > appropriate security patches of course), and they rarely give us any > problems. In point of fact, ftp.celestial.com is running COL 1.3, and > probably will until I decide whether to move it and the other services to a > Caldera 3.1.1 or a freebsd 4.5 system. It's been chugging happily along at > least since 9/2/1998 without a significant hiccup. > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > > ``We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call > free enterprise,'' said Cash McCall, "but when one of our citizens > show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do > our best to make him feel that he ought to be ashamed of himself." > -- Cameron Hawley > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
