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13th Systems Administration Conference - LISA '99
November 7-12, 1999
Seattle, Washington, USA
REFEREED PAPERS TRACK
Wednesday, November 10
Using Electronic Mail
Session Chair: Josh Simon, Collective Technologies
ssmail: Opportunistic Encryption in sendmail
Damian Bentley, Australian National University; Greg Rose, QUALCOMM Australia; and
Tara Whalen, Communications Research Centre Canada
MJDLM: Majordomo based Distribution List Management
Vincent D. Skahan, Jr., and Robert Katz, The Boeing Company
RedAlert: A Scalable System for Application Monitoring
Eric Sorenson, Explosive Networking and Strata Rose Chalup, VirtualNet
The Way We Work
Session Chair: Cat Okita, Earthworks
Deconstructing User Requests and the Nine Step Model
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
Adverse Termination Procedures -or- "How To Fire A System Administrator"
Matthew F. Ringel and Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
Organizing the Chaos: Managing Request Tickets in a Large Environment
Steve Willoughby, Intel Corporation
Tools
Session Chair: Adam Moskowitz, LION bioscience Research, Inc.
GTrace - A Graphical Traceroute Tool
Ram Periakaruppan and Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado at Boulder and Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
rat: A Secure Archiving Program with Fast Retrieval
Willem A. (Vlakkies) Schreüder and Maria Murillo, University of Colorado at Boulder
Cro-Magnon: A Patch Hunter-Gatherer
Jeremy Bargen, University of Colorado at Boulder and Raytheon Systems Company and Seth Taplin, University of Colorado at Boulder and CiTR, Inc.
Thursday, November 11
Thinking on the Job
Session Chair: Thomas A. Limoncelli, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
A Retrospective on Twelve Years of LISA Proceedings
Eric Anderson and Dave Patterson, University of California at Berkeley
Managing Security in Dynamic Networks
Alexander V. Konstantinou, Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University; Sandeep Bhatt, and S. Rajagopalan, Telcordia Technologies [formerly Bellcore]
It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming To Convergent System Management Processes
Dr. Alva L. Couch and Michael Gilfix, Tufts University
Network Infrastructure
Session Chair: Greg Rose, QUALCOMM Australia
NetReg: An Automated DHCP Registration System
Peter Valian and Todd K. Watson, Southwestern University
Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks - Switches, Gateways, and Authentication
Robert Beck, University of Alberta
NetMapper: Hostname Resolution Based on Client Network Location
Josh Goldenhar, Cisco Systems, Inc.
File Systems
Session Chair: Doug Kingston, Deutsche Bank
Enhancements to the Autofs Automounter
Ricardo Labiaga, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Advancement of NFS Benchmarking: SFS 2.0
David Robinson, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Moving Large Filesystems On-Line, Including Exiting HSM Filesystems
Vincent Cordrey, Doug Freyburger, Jordan Schwartz, and Liza Weissler, Collective Technologies
Systems
Session Chair: Eric Anderson, University of California at Berkeley
ServiceTrak Meets NLOG/NMAP
Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Burt: The Backup and Recovery Tool
Eric Melski, Scriptics Corporation
Design and Implementation of a Failsafe Print System
Giray Pultar, Coubros Consulting LLC
Friday, November 12
Network Security
Session Chair: Doug Hughes, Auburn University
Snort - Lightweight Intrusion Detection for Networks
Martin Roesch, Stanford Telecommunications, Inc.
Internet Routing and DNS Voodoo in the Enterprise
D. Brian Larkins, Lucent Technologies
Moat: A Virtual Private Network Appliance and Services Platform
John S. Denker, Steven M. Bellovin, AT&T Laboratories; Hugh Daniel, FreeS/WAN Project; Nancy L. Mintz, Tom Killian, and Mark A. Plotnick, AT&T Laboratories
Installations
Session Chair: Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado and Cooperative Ass'n for Internet Data Analysis
Automated Installation of Linux Systems Using YaST
Dirk Hohndel and Fabian Herschel, SuSE Rhein/Main AG
Enterprise Rollouts with JumpStart
Jason Heiss, Collective Technologies
Automated Client-side Integration of Distributed Application Servers
Conrad E. Kimball, Vincent D. Skahan, Jr., David J. Kasik, The Boeing Company; and Roger. L. Droz, Analysts International