Re: horse carcas flogging (was: traceroute in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> > So you're doing basic network diagnostics. It's an admin *function*
> > (as opposed to composing and sending e-mail, for instance).
>
> Not really, it's being a good network citizen.
>
> People who are only interested in using email also have gone on record as using
> traceroute as a tool to track down a spammer's ISP (and the ISP's ISP
> and so on, as necessary), to complain about spammers. These people are
> not admins.
Where are they running traceroute from?
If they're running it from their own machine at home, then they ARE admins.
Everyone is the admin of the machine(s) they personally own.
If they're running it from an ISP's server, it's because the ISP (foolishly)
decided to make traceroute available to them -- that's the ISP's every right,
but that doesn't change the fact that traceroute is primarily an admin tool.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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