On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:38:56AM -0400, Judson Main wrote:
> *Always* obscure information, else you wish to invite attacks
> against your network.
Obscuring information in a call for help is Really Stupid, if for no
other reason that you're just as likely to end up /hiding/ the problem
as illustrating it. Typos are one large subset (but by no means the
only one) of the problems that magically disappear when everything is
munged into "domain.com" or something equally anonymous.
Real-life example: A couple of days back, I was helping a local Linux
newbie with DNS resolution problems. I asked for his /etc/resolv.conf
and got this:
domain xxxxx.com
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
No, I'm not kidding, and yes, he got royally flamed by others.
If you're really that paranoid, pay a professional consultant like
Russell Nelson to fix it for you. You get confidentiality /and/
performance guarantees that way, plus you won't thoroughly confuse
(and possibly piss off) the folks who're trying to help.
--
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