[TriLUG] oldest production linux box

[Mike M]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:28:26PM -0500, Dan Monjar wrote:
> 
> which might explain why I got no other replies <grin>... 

And then there are the stories about the "forgotten" servers.

> as far as security 
> Turnpike Man called it right.  The only thing this machines does is service 
> internal DNS queries.  You can't get to it through the Internet.  If you 
> are sitting on my internal network you can get to it and I suppose you 
> could hack into it if you really wanted to.  But it wouldn't get you much. 
> I haven't updated the kernel because it works for what I need it to do. 
> But that doesn't mean I haven't updated the other components.  I tend to 
> install minimal systems and then compile the other programs I need from the 
> source, at least for my servers.  I just never got into the 'install the 
> binaries from the rpm' state of mind.  It just not how I like to do things.

Heh.  I did that too until I discovered apt.

-- 
When the correction first comes, we tend to underreact. While we do not 
like the surprise, we tend to think of it as maybe a one-time thing. 
Things, we believe, will soon get back to normal. We do not scale back 
our expectations sufficiently. It apparently takes years for this to 
work itself out. - John Mauldin