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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:38:41 JST Chris Siebenmann

   It has been '0' days since I (re)discovered that the claimed hostname in syslog messages can be utter junk, and you may be going to live a fun life if you use it for anything much.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:40:50 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     • rk: not a typewriter

     @rk localhost, 'idrac-<name>', 'last' (... from 'last message repeated N times', don't look at me), and random things from a security scanner poking the syslog port.

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     rk: not a typewriter (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:40:51 JST rk: not a typewriter

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     @cks

     Oh yeah that’s 100% under the control of the sender. Lotta localhosts out there.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:51:15 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     • rk: not a typewriter

     @rk The short version is: we used to be all-Solaris (90s, early 00s), started switching to Linux servers for user-facing things circa 2006 but kept Solaris and then OmniOS for (ZFS) fileservers, and eventually semi-regretfully switched from OmniOS to Ubuntu ZFS fileservers in 2018.

     (The pre-90s history is even more confusing depending on which bits of the department you look at. And eg the graphics people had lots of SGI for a long time, as you'd expect.)

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     rk: not a typewriter (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:51:16 JST rk: not a typewriter

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     @cks

     BTW, for my own curiosity: are y’all a Solaris shop? Linux? I feel like I see Solaris pop up for y’all.