Re: [Devil-linux-develop] suggestions for 0.5 Beta CD layout

[Martin M. <mm...@si...>]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:20:45PM +0200, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> If you run the same CD for 1-2 years you are out of luck anyway, because
> you're hopefully out of date - what, if one of the daemons or the kernel
> has a bug? 

Well, most of them have a quite minimal setup, they are just NAT
boxes, that only allow ssh from the internal network ... so there
aren't any deamons to be out of date, and I know of no kernel-bug,
that allows a remote exploit except a DOS attack. Well in case that
happens, just hit the reset button and you're set.

> I would suggest updating the CD _at least_ every 6 month. 
> How about the CD-ROM drives themself, how long do the work flawlessly?
> If they only work for 1-2 year what's the cost of a new drive? Only about 
> $47 / 100 DM / 700 ATS. That's _nothing_ compared to the costs when you're
> cracked.

It's not the cost of a cdrom drive, or the CDROM, it's the maintenance
cost, to have someone change the drive for you and have a downtime.

Most of the people I made the CDs for, have _no_ clue about hardware
or computers except using a webbrowser, and they're often a couple of
hundreds of kilometers away. So the onyl thing I can do for them is
send them a CD via mail, but they have to get the hardware serviced
themselves, which involves paying quite a lot for changing a CDROM.

> How? A descent firewall should be the point of attack not the systems
> behind it. Do you use ip-port-forwarding?

Well, just NAT behind a single ip-address, no daemons, no other stuff.

bye
   MM

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