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		<title>How to blow up a server in one mouse click</title>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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			<outline created="Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:32:37 GMT" pgfnum="2550" text="Okay I think this is the second time I've done this. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:32:48 GMT" pgfnum="2551" text="Hopefully by writing it up as a blog post, I won't do it again. And perhaps there's some way out of this jam. I don't know. You tell me. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:33:22 GMT" pgfnum="2552" text="Anyway. I had this server, running fine. It's main purpose was to run a copy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://newsriver.org/river2.html&quot;&gt;River2&lt;/a&gt;, and serve as the aggregation engine for many of my experiments with RSS. It also is the cloud-end for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2010/09/30/feedhoseAFirehoseForFeeds.html&quot;&gt;FeedHose&lt;/a&gt; experiments I've been running. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:34:24 GMT" pgfnum="2553" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2010/10/06/ron.gif&quot; width=&quot;75&quot; height=&quot;110&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named ron.gif&quot;&gt;Everything's going great. The server has lots of extra capacity. Just one problem. I can't get it on port 5337. This isn't usually something to worry about but I have an application that isn't working because of this. So I go poking around and find out that the Windows firewall isn't turned on. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:35:23 GMT" pgfnum="2554" text="The OS, Windows Server 2003, asks if I'd like to turn it on. There's a little warning message that I might have to restart the machine if something happens that I can't make heads or tails of. I think &lt;i&gt;Geez restarting isn't such a big deal,&lt;/i&gt; so I click OK, and then my Remote Desktop session freezes. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:06:55 GMT" pgfnum="2556" text="At this point I realize what I've done. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:36:34 GMT" pgfnum="2555" text="I've now put up a firewall that prevents my remote desktop app from getting to the server. And this is a completely virtual machine, there's no keyboard, no big red switch, no physical reality with which to fix this. I think, if I'm not mistaken, I'm going to have to completely reprovision this baby. Could that possibly be. Yeah probably. :-)"></outline>
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