On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:16 -0400, John Hinton wrote:
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
>
> > John Hinton wrote:
> >
> >> It's actually one of our very old boat anchors.. the replacement for
> >> which is sitting here waiting for me to move stuff. It's an old
> >> Compaq 3000R with dual 500s, a gig of ram and 6 18.2gig wide ultra
> >> drives .. raid 5 with hot spare. Dual P/S, redundant fans... was
> >> state of the art in 1999! ;)
> >>
> >
> > Yeah the 3000R and 1850R machines were built like the proverbial brick
> > outhouse. Until very recently, I had a few laying around as backup
> > DNS servers and mail servers. We donated a few 1850R's to a local
> > school and they're using them for the school district's web server and
> > mail server. 8-)
> >
> > These days, I just get a pile of commodity rackmount machines and hide
> > them behind a Foundry ServerIron or Cisco Localdirector for the
> > anthill labour effect. Of course, if some numbnut with a zombie farm
> > wants to take you down, there isn't a whole lot you can do about it
> > unless you've got some serious bandwidth and lots of server
> > horsepower. Sysadmins should just donate $20/year each to the
> > "kneecap a hacker" fund and just send some bad people in to "reason
> > with" the cretins. 8-)
> >
> Yeah... KaH fund! Actually, what would be just as good is to do
> something like have all the people on the CentOS list start
> pinging/packeting the crap out of said machines. The combined bandwidth
> would easily overpower any body except maybe the likes of Google. But,
> alas, this IS illegal activity in this country (US and others) and we
> could easily wind up with the authorities pounding on our doors....
> but... gee... if our laws don't reach into these other countries, then
> why should our laws apply to us if we were doing it to these other
> countries? Could WWIII be a ping war? :)
>
I could just ping mirror.centos.org toward them on release day ...
GeeWhiz ... there is a lot of you guys out there updating your
CentOS :)
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