> and yet he runs mime groking mailers as root. stunning.
>i think it's an alias though. Even so isn't it still a bad idea to advertise
having root? Now Mr. Cracker has a much better clue on where to sniff.. /
social engineering.
> >I'd like to set up a nameserver for it (I'll be connecting a
> >machine in to it which has no hosts file or equivalent) and
> >read over the DNS HowTo yesterday.
> >Is there anything in it that doesn't apply to my situation?
this nameserver will have no absolutely no internet access?
You might then want to make it authoritive for . and whater TLD you want, so
as to avoid all accidental IP lookups.
regards,
paul jakma.
ps: i'm also root at hibernia.clubi.ie and root at nldbd.dbo.dec.com... :)
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