[PLUG] FW: Re: The lion in Salem

Grish grishnav at egosurf.net
Wed Aug 27 10:37:02 UTC 2003


Geoff Burling wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Wil Cooley wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:02, Erik wrote:
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>>>Lion is the "front door" for all email services in the State.  I think
>>>all State email other than maybe ODOT goes through Lion.  The reason
>>>LION exists as near as I can tell is to keep Windows Wussy
>>>Administrators from sticking their unpatched Exchange 5.5 email
>>>servers out on the web and wondering why they get smacked  :>
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>>What's interesting is that the Received: headers indicate it passed
>>directly from lion to the Hevanet server, but the X-MimeOLE: header
>>indicates an Exchange server.
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>nmap (endorsed by ``The Matrix Reloaded") shows some interesting open
>ports on Lion. I'm not an expert by any means with nmap, but from
>what I saw I couldn't be sure if it was a *nix or a Windoze box --
>& there's a few ports I would have closed in either case. (And improved
>performance by removing X from the machine!)
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I'm inclined to believe that "lion" is some sort of load-balancer.





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