Re: What a riot

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:40:41 -0500, "Arny Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


>
>>> The *how* of what he's doing is no mystery.  The question is, *why*
>>> is he going through his server logs, doing lookups on some or all of
>>> the IP addresses, and then posting the likely corporate affiliation
>>> of visitors to his site on this newsgroup?
>
>Interesting how Gardner picks up on the paranoia.
>
>Note that he shortly claims that all of this is in his area of expertise,
>but yet he feigns ignorance of it at this point. More likely he's pretending
>to expertise he doesn't actually have later on.
>

I'll say it again.  I was never in doubt as to the *how* of things.
It was the "why".  Specifically, the last part of my paragraph above.
Why needlessly post content from your server logs in a public forum?

And for my relevant expertise - I'm probably going to regret this,
because I suspect it's not going to do any good:

I received a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
from the University of Texas in Arlington in 1994.  This was before
the big WWW boom, so it's only relevant as a background.

        One of my collateral duties as an officer in the US Navy has
been "ADP Officer" for two of the squadrons I've been in.  "ADP
Officer" roughly translates to "Computer Guy for the Squadron".  It's
equal parts hardware troubleshooting, transporting the network from
place to place for detachments and deployments, user account
management, software maintenance and LAN administration.  My first
squadron had about 200 users, and my current squadron has about 700.
        I don't do as much log checking as you do, Arny, because we
receive our internet access through the Network Operations Center
(NOC) at Naval Station Norfolk.  They maintain the firewalls and
police the network for improper use.  My squadron does have a web
site, but all of the local squadron websites are maintained by
COMNAVAIRLANT, not at the squadron level.
        That being said, I'm familiar with server logs, since that was
one of my responsibilities.  I know about doing lookups on IP
addresses, even though I never used an automated program to do so.  I
was limited by regulations to the software the Navy provided us.

        The only part I was interested in was why you would needlessly
post information from your logs to a public forum.

Scott Gardner