[ale] CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS (RHE)

Beddingfield, Allen allen at ua.edu
Thu May 17 13:39:45 EDT 2018


These days we have a full IPAM solution (BT Diamond) for DNS, DHCP, and 
IP address inventory).  It has multiple levels of redundancy at each 
location, with each datacenter also being a failover for the other.
Allen B.

On 5/17/18 12:30 PM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:18:21PM -0500, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
>> We used to do that with our Windows servers...the lease time was low...the
>> DHCP server went down one day...there was chaos shortly afterward...
> 
> A DHCP server is core critical infrastructure. There should not be only
> one.
> 
>   - Solomon
> 

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu


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