Episode 93 - Conversation with Drake
Posted by Podcast Team on 14 Apr 2008 9:35 pm. Filed under Podcasts.
Your Hosts: Matt and Mike
- NDR Spam
- Another Server Crash
- Surf Control Replacement
- Board Members Email
Running time: 38:32
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Your Hosts: Matt and Mike
Running time: 38:32
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On April 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
What is the name or link for the awesome filtering solution the two of you were talking about?
On April 16th, 2008 at 12:33 am
http://www.xstop.com/
http://www.8e6.com/network-security/internet-filtering/internet-filtering.html
I think this is the product mentioned.
On April 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
We’re evaluating the 8e6 Internet Filter and Reporter now. It’s from 8e6 Technologies; their website is www.8e6.com.
On April 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
My personal vote is that Linux is more secure than windows for a few simple facts. On a Linux system the services come disabled until you turn them on. Windows turns on nearly every service from startup.
Plus patching of issues on Linux doesn’t take months like it does from the major vendors. So most of the distributions right off the CD are well patched. Plus new releases of Linux are pretty frequent.
Since Microsoft doesn’t let me download XP SP2 my XP disk is the original release (for a non critical machine). Yes I know I can slipstream the service pack information but most would agree downloading a new disk like you can for a distribution of Linux is much easier than slipstreaming.
Vista simply doesn’t have the market share for hackers to start attacking it full force. If I am not mistaken it wasn’t until recently vista surpassed the OSX market share.
But yea I am with you guys I avoid Linux for my entire infrastructure because of a lack of knowledge. Things that we have come to expect, group policies for example are not nearly as easy to setup.
On April 21st, 2008 at 7:47 am
On your discussion on the ndr, if you disable email to invalid recipients then the sending server is responsible for sending the ndr’s, not your own server. The tarpitting feature can then be used to increase the time exchange takes to respond on an invalid recipient to prevent spammers dictionary attacks.
For kb articles on doing this see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886208 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899492
Thanks for confirmation that other people were having this problem – All of my customers on postini have had this issue and I was beginning to wonder if it was a postini issue