Summer 2008: Syllabus for CIS-4407-01
Group Members and Configuration Information
Assignment #3 — posted on 2008-06-08 corrected and re-posted on 2008-06-09, due on 2008-06-13
Assignment #4 — posted on 2008-06-16, due on 2008-06-18
Assignment #5 — posted on 2008-06-30, due on 2008-07-07
Assignment #6 — posted on 2008-07-09, due on 2008-07-11
Assignment #7 — posted on 2008-07-14, due on 2008-07-16
Assignment #8 — assigned on 2008-07-18, due on 2008-07-21
Assignment #9 — assigned on 2008-07-23, due on 2008-07-28
Assignment #10 — assigned on 2008-07-28, due on 2008-07-30
Assignment #11 — assigned on 2008-07-30, due on 2008-08-08
Processes, daemons, and so forth
System administration as "root"
Reference to the Tanenbaum-Torvalds discussion of micro versus macro: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution; Appendix A, The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate
An Email About A SAN here at FSU: SAN Issue -- root cause explanation
An explanation as to what we are trying to accomplish with assignments 1 and 2: Assignment 1 and 2 Explanation
2008-06-09: An Email about a Mailman problem here at FSU: Mailman problem
2008-06-11: An Email about a ClamAV problem with respect to Selinux: ClamAV/Selinux problem
2008-06-13: Reference for the book mentioned in class:
Network Warrior
by Gary A. Donahue
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: June 01, 2007
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-10151-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-610151-0
Pages: 598
2008-06-16: Morgan Stanley and AFS: When Your Business Depends On It: The Evolution of a Global File System for a Global Enterprise
2008-06-16: Relatively recent (2006) NFS operations resource: Linux NFS-HOWTO
2008-06-27: Recent article on top-level domains in the New York Times: New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the Way
2008-07-07: Recent article on consumer views of service downtimes in the New York Times: As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
2008-07-09: Recent article on patching DNS flaw: Vendors form alliance to fix DNS poisoning flaw
2008-07-09: DNS patches prove fatal for some software: MS DNS patch snuffs net connection for ZoneAlarm users
2008-08-08: Press release from Dr. Bernstein on DNS cache poisoning: DNS still vulnerable, Bernstein says
2008-08-11: Plastic Keys to Physical Locks: Researchers Crack Medeco High-Security Locks With Plastic Keys
2008-08-20: An Email about an administrator failing to set permanent state after setting temporary state: Blocked Hosts List?
2008-08-22: An Email about an intrusion at Redhat's Fedora: Infrastructure report, 2008-08-22 UTC 1200