North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:00:51AM -0500, Jason Lewis wrote: > > > All of the recent list traffic got me thinking about why people aren't > upgrading. Maybe some insight? > > I have several name servers. I have inherited them from admins that didn't > seem to know what they were doing and I cannot upgrade one of them at all. > It would require a total rebuild. I have upgraded the rest to 8.2.3. > > Another reason I haven't put more effort into it, is because I am waiting > for two brand spanking new servers to arrive. I don't have the time to > rebuild a name server I will trash in less than a week. Russian Roulette, I > know. One word: backups Is that word even heard around offices these days? I see far too many computers and far too few tape drives.. Kinda scary. > Is it pretty common to be understaffed and overworked? I can't believe I > just asked that. I am always overworked with next to no help, but it seems > that recently things are worse. Is that true all around? > > Anyone else in similar situations? Oh no, not at all. Its just you. ;-) > > Also, anyone else see a HUGE increase in scans for port 53? I mean out of > control scans. 53, 111, and 137 are the most common scans I trap at my firewall. Interesting bit with the scans to port 53 lately is that they're hitting the port 2 and 3 times, not just the usual once to identify and then move on. -Wayne
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