Aug 16 2005
A Bad Day…
Today didn’t start off too well. After assisting Dave to babysit a critical fileserver this morning, I had hoped the day would have gotten better. I was wrong.
A long afternoon involving messing with multiple installs of Horde, 2 moody women obsessed with using MSN Messenger, a severe lack of study, irritating delays with the Dart service on the way home and preemptive adminning to combat Zotob.A before it gives me a headache this week, I can safely say today was far from ideal.
At least I had a few drinks with my best mate in my local on the way home, so it wasn’t all bad…
On the subject of Zotob.A, since it is a Maths Dept admin tradition to log all IPs of M$ worm traffic, I started tcpdump logging all connections on port 445 from the TCD network.
So far, since 21:00 Monday 15th,
- 3053 attempted inbound attempted connections,
- no outbound attempted connections
Excellent! Can’t beat good, old ipfw… 
[I've noticed recently I'm gradually moving towards FreeBSD as my distro/system of choice for a lot of things, expecially since I have come to only trust UFS and/or HFS+ for decent file storage (100GB+), since I have yet to encounter a non-recoverable, fs related problem for either (yet)]