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Ask: unknown IP delivering DHCP

Hello.In my LAN I'm using the network 192.0.0.0/24 with a DHCP (192.0.0.14) delivering for the entire LAN through 3 smart switches. Yesterday I found a machine which have received 192.168.2.3 as DNS server by the DHCP, in 192.0.0.14 there is no configuration pointing to this so I tried to find that machine. It looks like a Linux 2.4 box which had 80 open with HTTP authentication (default...

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Ask HN: Linux Reserved memory for users

Hi there. As I can run an application with as a specific user, can I reserve an certain amount of memory for the user who's running such application? If some contiguous memory addresses were reserved and only used by a user, any exploit would only be runnable with it's permissions, right? Or even not runnable since wouldn't be memory reserved to it.Thanks :) Mortain

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Opa! ... lol