Two weeks back I posted a note about being unable to reach
syn-gate.synoptics.com on the net in order to get the document
"Improving the Security of Your UNIX System." Here's the summary.
I am still unable to reach that site, and several other people had the same
difficulty; Robert Enger even sent me a traceroute listing showing a black
hole after Synoptics gateway to Barrnet (still there BTW). I mainly got
requests for the document and for the information, but one kind person
did send me a site which I got the file from; however I somehow lost that mail
which is why I couldn't reply promptly (no answer)- my apologies! Fortunately
a general solution to finding almost any public domain software on the internet
came through an unrelated posting on Nov 26 from bajan@opus.cs.mcgill.ca,
entitled: "How to find you PD programs (archie)" [ RE: you (sic)].
The following information is abridged from what I just got by telnetting to
quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (132.206.2.3 or 132.206.51.1), logging in as "archie",
which runs an arhive server program and typing "prog security-doc".
(There is doc on-line as you login also.)
File security-doc.tar.Z (size is 175811 bites) is available from the following
anonymous ftp sites (I shortened the list to just a few from each domain):
Host VGR.BRL.MIL (192.5.23.6) Location: arch
Host uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (128.143.2.7) Location: pub
Host athos.rutgers.edu (128.6.4.4) Location: pub
Host chx400.switch.ch (130.59.1.2) Location: div
Host CLOUSO.CRIM.CA (192.26.210.1) Location: risq/securite
Host cs.ubc.ca (137.82.8.5) Location: uug
Host csab.larc.nasa.gov (128.155.26.10)
Host ditmela.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (128.250.90.81) Location: doc
Host eru.mt.luth.se (130.240.0.9) Location: pub
Host faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (131.188.1.43) Location: portal/doc/misc
Host freja.diku.dk (129.142.96.1) Location: doc
Host hp4nl.nluug.nl (192.16.202.2) Location: pub/security
Host ICARUS.RIACS.EDU (134.12.1.1) Location: pub
Host lut.fi (128.214.25.8) Location: unix/security
Host RELAY.CDNNET.CA (192.73.5.1) Location: uug
Host sol.cs.ruu.nl (131.211.80.5) Location: pub/DOC
Host SPARKYFS.ERG.SRI.COM (128.18.4.39) Location: pub
Host SUNIC.SUNET.SE (192.36.125.2) Location: pub
Host surya.waterloo.edu (129.97.129.72) Location: doc/security
Host UUNET.UU.NET (192.48.96.2) Location: doc
Host wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) Location: mirrors/unix-c/info
Thanks to:
Jeremy Frank jeremy@jarthur.Claremont.edu
"Robert M. Enger" <enger@seka.scc.com>
Alan Emtage <bajan@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
That unnamed benefactor who actually sent me a site address (sorry)
and finally to (Eric Hanchrow) yamada-sun!eric@nosun.West.Sun.COM who added:
> "Gott wuerfelt nicht." God does not play dice. Einstein
> [It was his habitually expressed reaction to the quantum theory.]
I heard it as "Der Herrgott wuerfelt nicht".
-- Wayne Little Internet: rwl@ee.umr.edu Phone: (314) 341-4546
USPS: Univ. of Missouri-Rolla, EE Dept., Rolla, MO 65401
"Be so true to thyself as thou not be false to others." Francis Bacon
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