Comments on: Episode 93 - Conversation with Drake http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake Matt, Bill, DJ, and Mike talk about technology in education. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:35:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Andy helsby http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15499 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:47:53 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15499 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 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

]]> by: Corky http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15438 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:31:57 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15438 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. 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.

]]> by: Mike Perry http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15421 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:34:12 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15421 We're evaluating the 8e6 Internet Filter and Reporter now. It's from 8e6 Technologies; their website is www.8e6.com. We’re evaluating the 8e6 Internet Filter and Reporter now. It’s from 8e6 Technologies; their website is www.8e6.com.

]]> by: Dave W http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15415 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:33:23 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15415 http://www.xstop.com/ http://www.8e6.com/network-security/internet-filtering/internet-filtering.html I think this is the product mentioned. http://www.xstop.com/

http://www.8e6.com/network-security/internet-filtering/internet-filtering.html

I think this is the product mentioned.

]]> by: Chad D http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15412 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:09:26 +0000 http://castingfromtheserverroom.com/podcast/2008/episode-93-conversation-with-drake#comment-15412 What is the name or link for the awesome filtering solution the two of you were talking about? What is the name or link for the awesome filtering solution the two of you were talking about?

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