[TriLUG] In search of the walled machine at UNC

[Jeff Bollinger]

True other departments sometimes manages portions of their network ,
though ATN owns or knows about every tier I switch and switch port on
campus.  They also maintain the core and all the links.

Jeff  

On 4 Oct 2002, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 09:30, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> > I'm not sure what I can say to guarantee that this did NOT happen, but it
> > didn't.  I'm not on some pro UNC PR bit, but I work for or closely with
> > the only two groups that would have any idea about this (Security and
> > Networking) and no one has ever traced a machine back to anywhere behind a
> > wall, and of course we have the capability to do so.  
> > We contacted Novell not long after they put up that urban legend on
> > the site but they did not respond.  It's been up for two years, so it's
> > not worth dealing with anymore.
> > 
> > Jeff
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> ATN isn't the only group at UNC that has computer networks, right?
> CompSci has their own group.  ILS has their own group.  How many
> other departments have (or used to have) their own group too?  How
> confident are you that this didn't happen in some department that
> handles (or used to handle) their own networking?  From what I remember
> when I was a grad student in CompSci, the CompSci people seemed to
> pretty much do their own thing.
> 
> Tanner
> 

Jeff Bollinger
University of North Carolina
IT Security Analyst
105 Abernethy Hall
mailto: jeff_bollinger at unc dot edu