Mr Unpopular
Well, if they didn’t resent me after yesterday, they will after today.
Having installed the web filtering software with a ban on a large, but not exhaustive list of porn sites (every time we tried to think up a new porn site, not actually one we knew, but just making up a likley name, it turned out to be a) a real porn site and b) not listen in the list of banned sites I downloaded from the internet!) I also set a ban on www.lifeinred.com and messenger.yahoo.com. (which will, I think, make it difficult but probably not impossible, to re-install yahoo messenger). This is all a bit brute force and ignorance at the moment but the situation was getting urgent).
And all I’ve done all weekend is network administration (and laundry). No prep at all!
Geek alert!
The most geeky part was reclaiming the lost password from the cisco firewall: this involved connecting a cable to the COM port of a windoze machine and running hyperterm! Then booting the firewall, interrupting the boot, manually configuring one of its interfaces and then downloading a special boot image from my linux box using tftp when the box runs this program it asks me if I want to clear the passwords and then we have control again.
Now all we need are the docs on how to config the thing and maybe I can turn down the brute force round here.
Lydia Says:
Ought to be marking internal exams but havent read your blog for ages. The whole surfing for stuff you shouldnt be is pretty universal I guess. I do IT duty on Friday lunchtimes – going round looking for the things at the bottom of the screen (what are they called tech man?) that show what is being done aswell as their latin/tech/history prep – and we have a fairly robust surf control but some of the boys make it their mission to find ways round it -be prepared for whatever firewall you put put to be loopholed around in some way – hey, it might help their programming skills no end! Our surf control went down last term – it took a week for the IT people to find out and probably about an hour for the students to.
June 8th, 2004 at 12:54 pmLovely to read about your exploits!
Back to the scripts!
Love and hugs! :hehe: