Christian is a trainee at bszh.edu. He received his chris@bszh.edu e-mail address two months ago, when he came over from what his colleagues call "Yorope" to spend half a year or so there at the campus and see some serious computing equipment. So far, he can handle all the stuff they have given him, but he doesn t want to become the Windows administrator of this place. That s what they try to put on my shoulders, but no way I buy in, he thinks.

It s a Saturday, and he is not required to be at work. But Dizzy has told him that he can touch the other production systems on weekends, if he is careful. Dizzy and Christian agree that you can t learn about being a system administrator on nonproduction play-around boxes. Therefore, Christian got the root password to work with the real things. And since the root password is kind of complicated, he wrote it down on a piece of paper and put it in his wallet. Nobody is ever going to find it.

Since it is probably going to be one of his next tasks, Christian checks the syslog server. It s a Linux machine. He has Linux systems at home, so he knows his way around. Dizzy has told him to check the syslog file and make himself familiar with all the devices dropping information on this host. He looks around for a while and sees several strange boxes, but the Domain Name Service (DNS) is...