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SysAdmin to SysAdmin: What you shouldn't put into production
Wed July 14, 4:01
by StoneLion

To promote security, most organizations should maintain separate
production and testing environments.

Production software begins its life in a testing or research
environment. These environments sometimes consist of actual labs on a
private network, isolated from the rest of the environment in almost
every way (partly as a security measure). Inside the lab are machines
that act as representative parts of the production network environment.
For example, there may be a machine running Apache, MySQL, DNS, and NTP;
another machine on the other side of a router running sendmail and an
"internal" DNS server. There will be client machines, of course, and
printers, wireless access points, and NIS/NIS+/LDAP servers, which may
be acting upon live data.

[Test lab?  What is that?  -  jjk]

http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=04/07/08/1625240

-- 
Joe Klemmer 
Unix System/Network Administrator & Ad Hoc Programmer