Re: fedwu.windowsupdate.com "Fed WU" ?

From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima@127.0.0.1)
Date: 12/22/01

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    From: Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1>
Date: 22 Dec 2001 19:09:04 GMT

    On 22 Dec 2001 03:34:59 GMT, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
    > In comp.security.misc Alun Jones <alun@texis.com> wrote:
    >> Maybe I'm thick, or something, but "I don't get it".
    >
    >> Why is this any more a poor choice than "server01"?
    >
    > Ppl think it is a redirect to an FBI site where they can update your OS with
    > their virus/snooping software. Fed=Federal.

    Next they'll stop going to our website "'cause server names sound
    fishy", and TPTB will call me on Xmas: "come and fix the servers!
    We aren't getting any hits! Something's wrong with the network!"

    (Our hostnames are tuna, urchin, medusa etc.)

    Dima (d'oh!) 

    -- 
We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people.                  -- Chris King

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