Oops, a weeks worth of stuff nearly...
I was pretty startled to discover on Monday that a
mis-configuration on my ISDN Lan Modem meant that inbound
traffic was
not, as I had thought, being rejected but was in fact being
rewritten
through the NAT to my Linux box. Various bits of security
testing,
verifying, and trawling through logs have convinced me that
there was
no compromise... but I've not paid nearly enough attention
to the security
of the box. I found this by chance as I attempted to see
how the NAT
handled SSH traffic in (better than I'd imagined!). Since I
need to SSH in I've secured the
machine
somewhat now :)
Various problems with 3com intelligent NAT were overcome in
the process.
On Thursday I managed a very uneventful (and remarkably
timely) trip to
to London to see Ted
T'So talk about the past, present and
future of
Linux as he sees it. It was an entertaining evening and I
got to
see a few UKUUG
conference faces again.
This weekend I have to spend catching up on OU work and perhaps some
house hunting... if I can be bothered. If I can't I'll learn
some more Java and Exim (which is soon to
replace Sendmail on
all the machines at work)... oh and it's the balloon fiesta
so I'd better go and see some of that too!