MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Len Conrad
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RE: OT: AOL?

2002-12-19 Thread Len Conrad
How can I test to ensure that my RDNS is working??? dig -x ip.ad.re.ss dig for win32 can be had at ftp.isc.org. or free registration to get to this page: http://preview.samspade.org/t/ or: http://www.dnsstuff.com/ Do I have to have an entry for every domain in reverse DNS??? The critical

Re: IMail as Mail Delivery Agent for CF

2002-12-03 Thread Len Conrad
Anyone have experience or recommendations about using IMail to deliver mail from ColdFusion in-lieu of using CFMAIL? Dumping tons of mail in short time on Imail for relaying is very probably going to screw it up, since Imail queue processing in that situation is flaky. The mail chunk just

RE: (Admin) New spam code

2002-11-12 Thread Len Conrad
DNS Expert Detailed Report for houseoffusion.com 11-Nov-02, 8:42 PM, using the analysis setting Normal == Information why was my message truncated? it was considered mail

RE: (Admin) New spam code (2nd attempt)

2002-11-12 Thread Len Conrad
Thanks Matt, I actually know a fair bit about it, I just get nervous when people speak about rejecting 'improperly configured' servers. Are we talking about open relays, lack of rDNS, not rfc compliant? I am just curious what Michael's definition is. DNS Expert

Re: (Admin) New spam code

2002-11-12 Thread Len Conrad
I was basing it on the mail headers. Basically what your mail server reports itself as to my mailserver. I've since found that my assumptions were not 100% correct. ALL mail headers can be forged. Using easily forgeable Received: headers for validation is useless. Here are the checks your

RE: (Admin) New spam code

2002-11-11 Thread Len Conrad
Thanks Matt, I actually know a fair bit about it, I just get nervous when people speak about rejecting 'improperly configured' servers. Are we talking about open relays, lack of rDNS, not rfc compliant? I am just curious what Michael's definition is. DNS Expert

RE: free mail servers please - like Pegasus and Mercury

2002-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
My client has outlook 2000 but cannot afford Exchange. http://www.ipswitch.com/Purchase/products/imail.html Gives you RFC-compatible SMTP, POP, LDAP, IMAP, and Webmail servers. Their press releases claim 50 million licenses sold. But will not give any of the proprietary Exchange groupware.

RE: free mail servers please - like Pegasus and Mercury

2002-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
Lee - pretty reasonable price. How secure is it? APOP and webmail over SSL are available. or are you talking about vulnerabilities? Len ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription:

RE: free mail servers please - like Pegasus and Mercury

2002-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
You are right! But my users want their profile to appear on each machine they log on to. Thus all their emails, sent items, etc... Do you see what I mean? using a browser to access a mailbox gives you portability, and doing it over SSL gives you security. Imail's sub-$400 product does that for

Re: free mail servers please - like Pegasus and Mercury

2002-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
I didn't know that. Very interesting. I remember telnetting into my school's VAX machine many years ago. I remember a lot of discussion boards throughout the Internet, but the web has moved them all away from telnet. smtp and pop and imap are text protocols. DNS is binary Len

Re: NSLookup

2002-09-24 Thread Len Conrad
I was under the impression that it used UDP by preference UDP is used to query as long as the response packets do not have the TC = TrunCated bit set. If TC, then the DNS client queries with TCP. but will fall back to TCP if UDP is not available. afaik, TCP is not tried as fallback if UDP

RE: Interesting: Macromedia Resource Kit

2002-09-06 Thread Len Conrad
would you be willing to download 650 megs? Not being sarcastic, but that is the main reason we did not make it downloadable. There is more in heaven and earth ... FreeBSD.org ftp mirrors world-wide have cdrom .iso images of the OS. 550 to 600 Mb per .iso. Never heard anybody, server-side or

RE: CF Server Firewall

2002-06-24 Thread Len Conrad
you are doing IP filtering/routing with them - not true firewalling. firewalling is a collection of policies implemented variously, and packet filtering routers and router ACL's are clearly, and truly, within that definition. Len www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training

Re: Crazy emails

2002-06-14 Thread Len Conrad
Has anyone ever seen an email that looks like this... I bet somewhere you have a forgotten mail forwarding rule on some account in your mailbox server. Len www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 W2K IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf,

RE: Bulk email servers...

2002-05-31 Thread Len Conrad
someone once wrote a way here how send emails directly to MS SMTP service using cffile instead of cfmail. using this method you could easily send out a million plus emails a day. best of all ms smtp service is free with windows. but it doesn't do automatic bounce management like a real MLM, and

Re: IIS Log Tool

2002-04-09 Thread Len Conrad
Anyone using a good tool for parsing IIS logs and producing html output with graphs? If so can you point me in the right direction. webalizer, analog, and there is an add-on for analog to produce better graphs. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for

Re: Problems with CF-TALK mail server?

2002-03-14 Thread Len Conrad
It's happened to me everyday this week now, and it's happened before... I won't get any mail from this list for over two hours or some long period of time and then a ton of it comes in all at once. Anybody else experiencing this phenomenon? If I need to ask a question and get an answer and it

Re: IP Address Locator

2002-02-25 Thread Len Conrad
How can you reverse a credit card transaction once it's been processed already? I've had credit card merchant account and have never seen this happen before. I did it once, as a buyer, on a seller of $5000 Mapinfo software, in Chicago. I just had to prove non-delivery of the product, and

Fwd: Postfix Relay Hub SMTP server: errors from houseoffusion.com[64.118.64.245]

2002-02-23 Thread Len Conrad
A common defense against mail-abuse for the receiving server to validate the sending server in DNS. Somebody was futzing around either with HOF's zone file or CF-talk list's setting and broke it: # dig hof001.houseoffusion.com a ; DiG 8.3 hof001.houseoffusion.com a ;; res options: init

Re: Image Theft Sofware

2002-02-18 Thread Len Conrad
*Sigh* Does anyone know of a good, cheap piece of software that I can install on the server to detect websites that are using images on your server by linking to them? I heard of people using google, etc to find targeted image filenames on indexed web pages. Len

Time for a checkup: soundoff on CF5/Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Len Conrad
For those of you running CF on Linux or FreeBSD's Linux? Happy? it's ready for prime time? Any success on FreeBSD 4.x's Linux compatibility? What about success in using PostrgeSQL ? thanks Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 W2K

Re: Maps

2002-01-02 Thread Len Conrad
NZERN (a volunteer non-profit environmental group) needs to display several thousand maps as jpg files on a coldfusion site. The users need to be able to move from one map to the next by up/down left/right nav keys. Also zoom in/out. Anyone got any insites into how to approach this task. We have

Re: Using CF to control Spam

2001-12-31 Thread Len Conrad
My inbox has become increasingly infested with spam - up to 30 a day now - so I've been writing a small app in CF to help control it. Basically, the robot logs into my current spam-infested inbox and checks each email against a trusted addresses table in my db - if the email is from a trusted

Re: Slightly OT RE: death of coldfusion

2001-12-31 Thread Len Conrad
Better hide under a Bush then :-) The local variety of sheriff shrubs are full of jerks. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways

RE: death of coldfusion

2001-12-30 Thread Len Conrad
Oh, and just to make it perfectly clear, in Neo you'll write CF as you do now. You'll have other features and technologies available to you too, but if you want to write CF as you do in CF5 (and earlier) you'll be able to. The ease of use, the minimal learning curve, the rapid development - none

Re: I hate spam

2001-12-21 Thread Len Conrad
The lists were down for 2 hours today because we had a massive influx of spam targetted on the lists. I have code that deals with it, but it still caused the lists to hang. I have some new code to stop the list handing and remove the spam with no problems. At no time will spam be sent to the list

Re: OT: SPAM lists?

2001-12-06 Thread Len Conrad
And shutting people down with no warning is also inexusable People running open relays are lazy or incompetent, so sending them a warning, even automated (no labor) won't energize them or power up their skills. In 2001, every mail admin has used up his virtual three strikes. No excuse, no

Re: OT: SPAM lists?

2001-12-06 Thread Len Conrad
I'll agree that a blackhole list for web servers is a great idea. Definitely a far greater risk and traffic waste than open relays. You can only say that since you haven't been the victim of a mutli-week, high-source-bandwidth DoS and other malicious attacks mounted through 1000's and 1000's

Re: OT: SPAM lists?

2001-12-06 Thread Len Conrad
Well Len thanks for calling me lazy and incompetent. Until I got blacklisted I did not know about open relays. So how does that put me in either category? If you run a public mail server, don't know what open relays are, nor how to close your own, that's incompetence. The mail server I was

Re: OT: SPAM lists?

2001-12-06 Thread Len Conrad
Yup..I'll take the hit...I should have done more research. The fact still remains that groups like ORDB are going too far in their approach to SPAM They do much more good than harm, ime. collateral damage isn't fun for the damaged, but it's recoverable. These people are doing voluntary work.

Re: OT: exchange rates

2001-12-06 Thread Len Conrad
Just wondering if anyone knows of some good places to nab daily exchange rates from (say with CFHTTTP to grab and then stuff in a db)?? xe.com I use interactively. Don't know about their license concerning sucking their content into your database. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training

Re: Hi

2001-12-05 Thread Len Conrad
Just starting to get a little tired of watching the press hype up a virus attack and then say it was a flash in the pan nothing to worry about speaking of pan flashes, remember SirCam ? here's report for IMGateAV from (partial) yesterday, SirCam is just slightly overtaken by the Goner storm:

RE: Hi

2001-12-05 Thread Len Conrad
If P-mail were as popular as Outlook, it would be targetted and exploited. You don't hear about Pegasus Mail viruses because it doesn't have the userbase that Outlook does. ah, another MS apologist. spin: MS software is attacked because it's widely used (ie, high value target) truth: MS

Re: OT: SPAM lists?

2001-12-04 Thread Len Conrad
I was looking at automating my server-side SPAM filtering. Are there any resources for pulling known SPAM addresses? Free, as in beer? We run an SMTP anti-abuse gateway, and subcribe it to selected RBL servers, do DNS validations, enforce SMTP protocol compliance, regex filters on headers,

Re: OT: SPAM lists?

2001-12-04 Thread Len Conrad
To go back to your gun analogy, we are restricted in possession and use of guns in order to reduce the likelihood of homicides. Otherwise, I should be able to carry a locked and loaded gun anywhere I choose. open relay MX's lying around will be picked up by spammers and used as weapons.

Re: OT: Managing DNS via a browser

2001-11-03 Thread Len Conrad
I've never seen one available, except for in one of those prefab ISP control panels that are out there. When I tested the beta of www.UltraDNS.com, it had an excellent zone editor in CF, much better than W2K MMC. Don't know about now. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training

Re: OT: Managing DNS via a browser

2001-11-03 Thread Len Conrad
One other thing - if you're using Bind on Windows then the service needs to be restarted for the changes to take affect. no longer true, for BIND8 on Win32, with the recent bindcmd.exe: C:\bindcmd Usage: BatchCmd command where command is one of: reload - reload configuration file start-

Re: OT: a matter of milliseconds?

2001-08-19 Thread Len Conrad
In an OPTIMAL NETWORK conditions, ? Will a server co-located in Israel perfrom as good as a co-located server in the US? probably not, ime. typically a lot worse, since connectivity and peering for .il is much poorer than for USA. matter of milliseconds? yes, 500+, in some cases. Try

Re: OT: a matter of milliseconds?

2001-08-19 Thread Len Conrad
But will the visitors really see the diffrence? try it yourself. surf to the US hosting service, and then surf to www.netvision.net.il or whatever hosting svc you´re considering there. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 W2K

Re: CFMail - caveats?

2001-08-05 Thread Len Conrad
Try CFX_iiPOP3 http://iistore.infranet.com How does a POP3 tag remplace an SMTP client tag? Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways

Re: Image Resizing tags

2001-08-03 Thread Len Conrad
Does anyone out there who's messed with tags like CF_ImageSize have any info on the nature of the files these tags produce, especially when it comes to running pre-compressed images through them? I'm digging around trying to settle on one of these tags, but I don't want to end up tossing, say, a

Re: can't connect to mail server

2001-07-31 Thread Len Conrad
Are there any ideas as to why Cold Fusion cannot connect to a mail server? You can rule out the mail server being down or change of address because I just tested it using a non-cold fusion program from the CF machine? and I received an email. When I go to the CF Admin and 'verify' the mail

RE: SPAM - Why is he doing this to me?

2001-07-20 Thread Len Conrad
For the last day I have been getting emails into my mailbox continuously round the clock - at the rate of 10-20 a minute. I am trying to work out why it's happening. car to share with us how far have you got ? Can anyone give me any hints? you're being abused? It's a plain commercial

RE: SPAM - Why is he doing this to me?

2001-07-20 Thread Len Conrad
I own the email account. I change my password. You can't relay through the account or at least I tried that and tested and it bounced. So I don't see what he's got to gain by sending me a gazillion emails. I can't do any of that - I'm not the systems admin. If I was, I could just shut his

Re: is this list dead?

2001-07-05 Thread Len Conrad
As for post.office, I think its abandon-ware. :))) and it never was a listserver in the first place. : My offer stands to set you up, for free as my contribution to list, with a dedicated list server of FreeBSD + postfix + listar with auto-bounce mgt, un/subscribe confirmation

RE: is this list dead?

2001-07-02 Thread Len Conrad
This is the first one i've had in over a week!!! I thought the list was Dead!! ime, this list has been effectively dead, MIA, since after 15 June. It will be a surprise, to me, if my msg shows up. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4

Is this list screwed up again?

2001-06-25 Thread Len Conrad
I haven´t received but about 150 msgs in the last 10 days, versus 100+ msgs per day up to 15 June. A couple of other CF Talk members have contacted me directly, saying they weren´t getting msgs either. What´s up? 10 days? Len ~~ Structure

RE: Hacker

2001-06-15 Thread Len Conrad
If you think that's bad check out the following article: http://grc.com/dos/openletter.htm If you that article is good, check out other mailing lists. The consensus is that GRC is grandstanding, grabbing some fame, the sky is falling, etc, etc. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training

RE: winzip and cfexecute

2001-05-24 Thread Len Conrad
Have you tried just using the 16bit DOS version of PKZIP :-)) isn´t the command line version 32 bits now? Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways

Re: Allaire Forum

2001-05-17 Thread Len Conrad
On the subject of Forums, what Forum software is being used at http://forums.allaire.com ? scroll to bottom of its screen Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.3 NT3 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail

Re: OT: Detecting router IP

2001-05-02 Thread Len Conrad
Is there anyway to dynamically retrieve the IP assigned to a router, which is getting its IP from a DSL line in ColdFusion? IF the router uses the same hostname for its inside ip address as it does for its outside address (the DHCP assigned address you´re after), then doing a PTR query (get

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-27 Thread Len Conrad
MM could be positioning CF upmarket, abandoning the low-end web apps to PHP, open source platforms, and ASP, and targetting primarily, exclusively the corps, not the hosting services, knowing MM can´t run a business competing with free open source software, and the equally free MS security

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-27 Thread Len Conrad
And where would that leave smaller developers? If the smaller developers aren´t worth their cost of sales, then, yes ... Out in the cold and you don´t make significant money selling CF software, but from your CF apps and support contract revenue, none of which goes back to MM. Of

Re: Undeliverable Messages

2001-04-27 Thread Len Conrad
Use CF as database app to manage the list membership, but have CF give the list membership to a real list server that does automatic bounce management. Before your next newsletter shot, import the list server´s bounce removals to your CF database. Len I have a database of email addresses

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-27 Thread Len Conrad
dBase and Sybase neither could stand up to MS and Oracle share. For example, has anyone tried to buy a copy of MS Word 2000 for $99 or $69 with a competitive upgrade. Not recently. competitive upgrade from what? monopolists can charge whatever they want, and MS will bleed the market for

Re: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-26 Thread Len Conrad
'owned' by anyone else. Is this a hosting situation? The logical answer is no. and the stock optioned/bonussed suits' answer is ?? Len ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at

Re: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-26 Thread Len Conrad
We probably wouldn't need a special promotional upgrade offer unless the cost is going up. that´s cost per server-side app and PER YEAR ad infinitum. MS h Robert Long wrote: Anyone seen a pricing structure for cf5? We're going to feel pretty ackward if they actually lower the

Re: IP Address

2001-04-10 Thread Len Conrad
I need to figure out who is at a particular IP address not the exact person but if I have a range of 5 or 6 addresses I would like to know who is viewing my website. Have you ever looked a the report of a web log analyzer? The rate of successful (ie useful) reverse resolutions is low, fairly

RE: IP Address

2001-04-10 Thread Len Conrad
Just wondering who this is? 207.179.142.36 mgw1# dig -x 207.179.142.36 ; DiG 8.3 -x ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;;

Re: CFMAIL - twofold

2001-03-26 Thread Len Conrad
someone correct me if im wrong but doesn't the "From= " line have to have a valid email address such as: FROM="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and cant have a name like: FROM="JAY PATTON"? i think i ran into a problem like this a while ago.?!?. You can put any crap you want in there (spammers do), from

Re: OT: IIS / FTP

2001-03-24 Thread Len Conrad
Is there some trick to getting IIS' FTP server to add a virtual directory? I've tried to do this a couple of times and it never seems to work. Don't use MS FTP, use www.cat-soft.com Serv-U Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training : In Austin, TX; SFO, CA; Paris, FR http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com

RE: CF DNS

2001-03-22 Thread Len Conrad
I can see why this idea would arise, an idle mind? a stalled mind?? an over-revving mind :)) DNS == database; CF uses databases, but using a traditional DNS model, I can't think of any compelling reasons why someone would attempt to do this, beyond idle curiosity. ah, sweet reason. :))

Re: CF DNS

2001-03-22 Thread Len Conrad
It's not really that hard to figure out the sturcture of the dns record files. Just open one up and the write a program that will write the same file with the right names in the right places. We wrote a program that writes the dns files for Microsoft DNS server... He's asking about writing an

Re: CF DNS

2001-03-22 Thread Len Conrad
Yeah .. for BIND on Linux it's just as easy as appending to one text file, and creating another. Then just restart the daemon and away you go. yes, but it doesn't scale well. Editing by hand or CF writing out a 1000 or 10,000 or 100K line named.conf text is pretty dumb. It's clearly a

RE: M$ licensing has me at wits end

2001-03-03 Thread Len Conrad
We have used MySQL to great success, but the above statement really misstates the case. MySQL is missing many features necessary to the daily operation of a RDBMS. It is really only a marginal step up from Access in this manner. In many scenarios, MySQL is (much) faster than Microsoft SQL

Re: What does OT mean?

2001-03-01 Thread Len Conrad
Other things?? That's a very good and workable guess, but http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exactAcronym=otFind=Find Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways

Re: Cascading menus - anyone know a good cross-browser version?

2001-02-25 Thread Len Conrad
I'm looking for a cascading menu that is not based on graphics - I want to make it dynamic. lotsa choices here: dynamicdrive.com Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways

RE: Web Design

2001-02-12 Thread Len Conrad
What's HCI? http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exactAcronym=hciFind=Find Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways ~~ Structure

Re: thumbnails

2001-02-11 Thread Len Conrad
I've tried using CFX_GIFGD and CFX_IMAGE, but neither one allows you to set the quality (compression ratio) for JPG files. I'm trying to make low quality (fast loading) thumbnails auomatically. The thumbnails I make with ACDSee are about an eighth the size. www.jasc.com, Image Robot. hint:

RE: What Does OT Stand For?

2001-01-12 Thread Len Conrad
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exactAcronym=otFind=Find http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 T9B for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways ~~ Structure your

RE: CFMAIL High Volume

2001-01-09 Thread Len Conrad
we use ListServ HPO version www.lsoft.com touted as the best there is currently. We enjoy it. But it costs many $1000's, AND per year, which are enjoyable otherwise. This may be considered an "unfair comment" in a commercial software forum, but I have delivered a sustained 1000 msgs/minute

Re: SSL

2001-01-09 Thread Len Conrad
Anybody using stuff like http://www.rainbow.com/ncdb/ACCEL.PDF to speed up SSL and offload encryption from the main CPU? Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 T9B for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways

RE: Slightly OT: CF in Europe

2001-01-08 Thread Len Conrad
Well this is a completely subjective view but my perception is that CF is considered quite a hot technology here in the UK. I don't know, but I believe the relative strength of CF versus ASP is stronger in the US than in Europe because a lot of people in the US started building web apps before

Re: OT- HTH

2000-12-29 Thread Len Conrad
Okay, I've seen a million people use HTH in their signatures or sign-offs. I can't figure it out. www.acronymfinder.com IKTH (I KNOW this helps) :)) Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 T9B for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail

RE: figleaf.com

2000-12-27 Thread Len Conrad
having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly. But it's mostly counterproductive. www.domain.com and domain.com A records both return the the same ip, WTF else do you want to at port 80 of that ip? Having an A record lookup of www and domain.com return different ip's serves what

CFFILE locking?

2000-11-30 Thread Len Conrad
With CFFILE action=write, does CF have implicit file locking or serialization of access to one file (such as a logging file common used by all a site's pages) or do we have implement our own locking scheme? In either case, what happens when there is a collision? Does CF do its own

CFFILE locking?

2000-11-29 Thread Len Conrad
With CFFILE action=write, does CF have implicit file locking or serialization of access to one file (such as a logging file common used by all a site's pages) or do we have implement our own locking scheme? In either case, what happens when there is a collision? Does CF do its own

RE: Mail Servers

2000-11-14 Thread Len Conrad
If a host receives 1,000,000 e-mails from a single host in a day, can't it be flagged as suspicious activity and rerouted to a temp account or dumped? Many mail servers are capable of this or some similar behavior. For instance, as you probably guessed by watching this thread :), our shop

RE: Mail Servers

2000-11-13 Thread Len Conrad
Having problems with SMTP and hops. What mail server(s) does anyone recommend to work well with CF 4.5. What do you mean "with" : on the same machine? If yes, then I recommend against it. CF is happiest as a dedicated machine. If neither CF nor the mail is very busy or important, ok

Re: Mail Servers

2000-11-13 Thread Len Conrad
stay away from mailsite! It's a major bitch keeping smammers out of it. we have it running on an NT box here and we have to fix it at least once a week because of spammers killing it with tons of mail. Just curious: what can't mailsite do for anti-spam defense that sendmail can? MAPS? ORBS?

Re: Mail Servers

2000-11-13 Thread Len Conrad
But what do you do, if spammers IP constantly change if he is dialling in via call by call ? Then only blocking of IP-classes would help. All relayers must use authentification, preferably SMTP AUTH, or POP-B4-SMTP, even if they relay from trusted ip's. There simply is no other way to be

Re: SNMP Monitoring.

2000-11-09 Thread Len Conrad
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on monitoring CPU utilization on a server that CF is using via SNMP? this guys has a few: http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/ Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 8.2.3 T6B for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam

RE: Fannie-packs? (RE: fusebox)

2000-11-07 Thread Len Conrad
Round these parts a "fanny" is slang for a woman's frontal privates :-) .au = upside down AND backwards :-))) Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 8.2.3 T6B for NT4 W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways

Re: ColdFusion is vulnerable?

2000-11-01 Thread Len Conrad
Have a look at this article listing ColdFusion as number 2 in top 10 internet security threats... http://www.sans.org/topten.htm Comments on a postcard please? I invoke your own tag, it works very well, thanks. CF_IGNORE User="Mike Connolly" CFX_TALKINGARSE User="Mike Connolly" CFABORT Len

Re: OT: URGENT HELP NEED - MAIL SERVER PROBLEM

2000-10-18 Thread Len Conrad
I know this is totally off topic, but I have nowhere to turn at the moment. Somehow even though I have mail relaying turned off on my mail server, I've received several thousand messages over the night, and those messages continue to pour in. relaying stops relaying, it does not stop mail

RE: URGENT HELP NEED - MAIL SERVER PROBLEM - More Info

2000-10-18 Thread Len Conrad
I'm pretty sure that it blocks before writing to the disk. There's still going to be some load, though - the server will still receive connections on the SMTP port. yes, that's why I recommended he do it up at his border router, or filtering mail hub, so the mailbox server is available for

Re: cfx_image

2000-10-10 Thread Len Conrad
A commercial alternative is www.jasc.com for Image Robot. Can be called from CF or run stand-alone. Batch processing of unlimited number of images, applying to an image just about every feature of Paint Shop Pro 4. Crop, rotate, resample/resize, add borders, overlay an image (eg,

Re: OT: Linux List Servers

2000-10-10 Thread Len Conrad
Reply off list if you canon the side I run a few football and hockey fan sites, and we'd like to blow off our current listserv service and bring it inhouse.we have a few Linux boxes ready to go... Any word on a decent free listserver to dump on those boxes? www.listar.org is a sweet

Re: Math Question HA HA HA

2000-10-03 Thread Len Conrad
Everyone is jumping in to answer an easy one! "I got it, I got it!" Regis Filbin's new prime-time blockbuster: "Who wants to shoot a fish in a barrel?" Len I prefer small barrels and big fish http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com:

Re: OT: Bind problems

2000-10-02 Thread Len Conrad
I'm trying to create a "fake" test Domain as part of a project. For example I just created www.wluke-testing.co.uk - the Bind file was called db.wluke-testing.co.uk and obviously I entered the entry into named.boot. But I can't get it to resolve. Do I have to wait a set period of minutes

RE: Email Trigger?

2000-09-29 Thread Len Conrad
Another way to do this would be to have your MTA (ie Sendmail) fire a Perl script that calls the CF page (via HTTP) when mail to that alias arrives. No scheduling required, and near-instant action on the email. ah, now that's cool. thanks, Len

Re: Image validation

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
Definitely, I need to check about their file size, width and height. Do you know how to do the validation? There are tags in the gallery for returning image size. www.jasc.com for Image Robot if you want to produce thumbnails or otherwise automate tranformation of the images. Len

Re: Somewhat OT: Is it possible to detect a mail client from a web page [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
I think this is bunk, but a suit here is telling me that it is possible = to detect the client's mail client. OK, I've used JS to detect browsers = and all associated stuff, but the mail client? Sometimes a header will identify the SMTP client program. But I'm pretty sure there's no reliable

Re: WOT: Allaire stock price

2000-09-16 Thread Len Conrad
With all of MS's server-side momentum/juggernaut only increasing, SOAP, XML, asp, .net, C# tools and noises, ALL non-MS NT/W2K web server appplication server vendors are in MS's gun sights, and investors know what happens to the MS's strategic targets. Investors can't be faulted for expecting

RE: WOT: Allaire stock price

2000-09-16 Thread Len Conrad
Are you saying that ColdFussion will be a thing of the past?? I'm suggesting what a lot of investors, dumb and smart, could be thinking about Allaire et al as presumptious, even talented players on what MS considers to be their own, private strategic turf. If former market share godzillas

Re: WOT: Allaire stock price

2000-09-16 Thread Len Conrad
That might be true of less established, more exposed, non-quoted companies, but not the Allaires of this world. CF has been compared to ASP for along time, and CF goes from strength to strength on merit. but we're talking about stock prices and Internet investors, not product merits. The

RE: Hotel Booking Engine up

2000-09-13 Thread Len Conrad
Well instead of writing and saying that, write your own then. Hi Bob, People, esp programmers, can really be assholes!! www.Go2France.com is our French lodging guide, has about 75,000 lodging facilities, all types. We are thinking about offering each one an on-line reservation service,

Re: Mail Servers?

2000-08-23 Thread Len Conrad
Are there any GOOD yet not too expensive mail servers out there? We currently have exchange no matter what we do we cant get CF to work with exchange as long as Relaying is shut down. So we wanted to install another mail server for CF that can bypass exchange. Meaning we dont want a mail

RE: Good inexpensive NT Email Solution

2000-08-19 Thread Len Conrad
Oops, let me try again, 100,000 total users per server and suggested max of 2,000 users per domain. hah, I thought it sounded too good to be true. A low-end server, but of course the low-end is the big end. Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4

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