G'day Rod

05 Apr 04 13:50, Rod Gasson wrote to All:

 >>  RG> We handle most of our own mail, but a couple of the domains under 
 >>  RG> our control are handled by an offsite provider, mainly because it 
 >>  RG> was under a constant dictionary type attack. :-(

 >> We're trialling a virus/spam/etc filtering service. Our MX points to 
 >> them, they "cleanse" the mail and then send it on to
our mail server.

 RG> Just curious - what service is this, and how much do they charge?

To tell you the truth, I cannot remember - it's been done at head office. I
know that it costs a shipload per month.

 >>  >> We don't run anything virus related on the Linux machines...
 >>
 >>  RG> We don't run virus checker as such, but we do run several 
 >>  RG> different forms of intrusion detection systems (monitoring for 
 >>  RG> backdoors, rootkits, etc).
 >>
 >> The only Linux sever the students have login access to is expendable. 
 >> The teachers are supposed to look after it, but if it gets clobbered, I 
 >> can rebuild it anew in a couple of hours. It's not any thing
important that 
 >> gets lost, just students' efforts at web design.

 RG> I've recently been taking a good look at some of the "live" CD
 RG> distributions, and one that has really caught my attention is 
 RG> "Knoppix" -  I don't know if you've seen or heard of this
or not, but it's 
[...]
 RG> Anyway, if you haven't seen or tried these distro's I recommend you 
 RG> do so, because even if you don't have a need of them for the 
 RG> student/teacher scenario it sure is a handy CD to have onhand.  :-)

Indeed I have tried it - the CD is sitting here next to my machine.

Regards,
David

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