Re: no rsync in the German installation? (Kommando nicht gefunden.)
On Thursday 30 January 2020 10:10:41 Linux-Fan wrote:
[...]
> I am still genuinely curious about the answers to the questions above
> especially wrt. being hacked, the exact restoration conditions and the
> reason for being offline to restore data?
>
> YMMV
> Linux-Fan
20 + years ago I first heard of dd-wrt, and I ran it on an old machine
for several years as an isolator between my local network in the
192.168.xx.xx range for several years. But the old box died, and I
looked for a router that could be reflashed, finding at the time a
buffalo netfinity which could be reset, actually came with it but they
covered a piece of the menu with their blurb so I had to reflash it
right away with the real thing. Then, because that was so inconvenient,
I found a netgear I could reflash, but I had to clone the buffalo's mac
into it to get my ipv4 address back. So I now have 2 routers available
in case one gets bumped by whatever. I used to watch its logs to see
the attackers that never get past it, but they never have.
So I eventually got rid of verizon's 70 yo copper in favor of a slow
connection from the local cable folks about 7 years back which meant I
had to register a new net address, but I've now renewed that fixed
address for another 5 years. In all that time I've had the web page you
can access at the link in my sig and only one person, a friend of mine
and a linux net guru now working as the linux guy at a 3 letter guv
agency that I had to give credentials to, has come thru it.
I'd say that's pretty darned good security, yet I can go anyplace on the
net I want to from here or one of the other 4 or 5 machines on my local
net except for several dozen iptables rules of the xx.xx.xx.xx/24
variety because they are web spiders that don't play by the robots.txt
rules, instead of indexing my pages, they insist on mirroring it,
burning up what little upload bandwidth I have. Because at the moment I
am supplying an armhf build of LinuxCNC and the preempt-rt kernel that
runs on a raspberry-pi4b to run cnc machinery with. And its doing it as
well as 3 other LCNC installs on x86 machines can.
Lesson? junk your router and get one that can be reflashed, dd-wrt has
some competition. Router reflash files are downloadable for free from
the dd-wrt site. And sleep well with your stuff up 24/7/365.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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