With DHCP and Netreg, you do control the network. Keep your registered leases short ( 2 hrs ).
Be sure to disable external DNS calls at the router ACL, to force people to use Netreg.
Run 2 instances of BIND with Netreg and selective DNS forwarding to allow Windows Updates, LiveUpdate, IT Support and Spyware. ( see Netreg-l from last August).
Bump infected computers out of registration, so that they can't phone home as easily.
Alternatively, use groups with ISC DHCP to force an infected MAC to use the Netreg bogus DNS to "quarantine" them.
If you can, ask the network dudes to disable 25,135,445/tcp for your unregistered IP ranges. That'll limit the infected PC a bit.
If you start to see a virus frenzy, shut ports off fast. It'll save time later.
I've run a 4000 computer RezNet this way for 4 years.
As to infected computers, I'm working on a Netreg extension that includes a "Your're infected" group.
It's like being unregistered, but DNS forwards to a virus notification page.
I was only there 6 months when the layoffs came up and she got the slip and I didn't. She flew off the handle that I should have went before she did. She didn't appreciate it when I mentioned she probably shouldn't have been so vocal about how she didn't like her job.
That wasn't my fiance's Nortel experience. Users who were unhappy were kept on in the hopes that they would quit outright, rather than get laid off and receive a payout.
I agree entirely, though I'd also include Russia and the Ukraine as outsource destinations.
Programming is the light manufacturing of this new century. Many countries with cheaper workforces are capable of replacing NA and Western European programmers.
We are currently seeing this in the Call Center industry, where Indians are taught to speak like trailer-trash and bone up on CNN before each shift.
http://www.outsource2india.com/why_india/articles/ call_centers_india.asp
Note that salary: $5K US. I think I earned that little as a summer-student in 1989.
In Russia, the game programming industry ( soft not embedded ) has also increased. I don't have a ready source, but a friend in that industry tells me that close to 1/3 of all titles are developed there.
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Please recall that in Genesis there was a flood, fratricide, and general mayhem. I'm sure this isn't what Symantec had in mind for their users.
- With DHCP and Netreg, you do control the network. Keep your registered leases short ( 2 hrs ).
- Be sure to disable external DNS calls at the router ACL, to force people to use Netreg.
- Run 2 instances of BIND with Netreg and selective DNS forwarding to allow Windows Updates, LiveUpdate, IT Support and Spyware. ( see Netreg-l from last August).
- Bump infected computers out of registration, so that they can't phone home as easily.
Alternatively, use groups with ISC DHCP to force an infected MAC to use the Netreg bogus DNS to "quarantine" them.
- If you can, ask the network dudes to disable 25,135,445/tcp for your unregistered IP ranges. That'll limit the infected PC a bit.
- If you start to see a virus frenzy, shut ports off fast. It'll save time later.
I've run a 4000 computer RezNet this way for 4 years.As to infected computers, I'm working on a Netreg extension that includes a "Your're infected" group. It's like being unregistered, but DNS forwards to a virus notification page.
That wasn't my fiance's Nortel experience. Users who were unhappy were kept on in the hopes that they would quit outright, rather than get laid off and receive a payout.
we use Cisco 3350s in-line with some of the more overloaded routers to do the ACLs. works nicely and 3350s are cheaper than upgrading routers.
i would have thought MySquirrel a better choice.
the theme works, follow me here:
nuts -> databases
cache -> servers
multiple caches -> replication! distribution!
cache to nest -> access time
which makes the better fuzzy plush toy...a dolphin or a squirrel. i ask you!
I agree entirely, though I'd also include Russia and the Ukraine as outsource destinations. Programming is the light manufacturing of this new century. Many countries with cheaper workforces are capable of replacing NA and Western European programmers. We are currently seeing this in the Call Center industry, where Indians are taught to speak like trailer-trash and bone up on CNN before each shift. http://www.outsource2india.com/why_india/articles/ call_centers_india.asp
Note that salary: $5K US. I think I earned that little as a summer-student in 1989.
In Russia, the game programming industry ( soft not embedded ) has also increased. I don't have a ready source, but a friend in that industry tells me that close to 1/3 of all titles are developed there.