“duwamish draw bridge blues”, a song for people who wait twice in one hour for the friggin thing…
“duwamish draw bridge blues”, …
January 6th, 2009ate dinner with my honey last …
January 2nd, 2009ate dinner with my honey last night…great time, enjoyed some northern italian grub and wine. nothing finer
ruby tuesday has pooped on my …
December 28th, 2008ruby tuesday has pooped on my recently cleaned rugs 3 days in a row… if you were my dog ruby you would not be my dog!
christmas just started and i a…
December 24th, 2008christmas just started and i already want it to be over… i think i need to go to santa’s chiropractor to get a christmas realignment.
Finishing a well deserved ipa …
December 22nd, 2008Finishing a well deserved ipa @ old town in Ballard. Going to the el aeropuerto to get little brother and drive through the winter snow.
Windows DNS Server uses 2500 ports in the ephemeral port range…
November 14th, 2008Recently I received a report from some security software (GFI’s LANguard NSS) that said my domain controller had a backdoor installed on it. This seemed unlikely but I dutifully went in to have a closer look.
Upon examination there appeared to be a number of ports (say 2500 or so) open in the ephemeral port range. After some wrestling with netstat and some help from jahboite on Expert Exchange I was able to figure out that they related to my dns service on that box.
My next question was why dns had so many ports open? Was there a backdoor on the box after all and am I a bad admin? Well, a quick search with the help my dev, co-worker Jonathan found the answer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956188
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953230
Based on this article, it appears this is a new design decision as of July 2008 which resolved the “Vulnerabilities in DNS could allow spoofing” problem with Windows DNS…
I’ll be e-mailing my GFI now with this information. Hopefully then can make their tool smarter so it can figure this out rather than making me do it…
word out to the people on the …
November 3rd, 2008word out to the people on the net: send love to Tammy this week–she needs it…
Post from Blog!
November 3rd, 2008Post from Blog!
Like chocolate and peanut butt…
November 3rd, 2008Like chocolate and peanut butter my twitter and blog and now together. Now if I could just figure out how to taste them, oh so yummy.
New blog post: arg, i just did…
November 3rd, 2008New blog post: arg, i just did it again http://tinyurl.com/563k4t