RE: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-07 Thread Paul
-Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:27 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM

RE: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 09:40 -0700, Paul wrote: I can agree with you on only one thing, Fedora is not suitable for (the majority of) my needs So why are we having this discussion? poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

RE: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-07 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 09:40 -0700, Paul wrote: You make some pretty heady assumptions here, including where you assume I am speaking on my own behalf about the process of upgrading a machine to a new version. I in fact do run Fedora on a number of machines, but that number is progressively

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 09:40 -0700, Paul wrote: You make some pretty heady assumptions here, including where you assume I am speaking on my own behalf about the process of upgrading a machine to a new version. I in fact do run Fedora on a number of machines, but that number is progressively

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-06 Thread max
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:46:57AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 05:20:26 +0200, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: PS: To all those who have replied in this thread: please DO NOT ANSWER this sort of questions about unsupported releases (other than with a

RE: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-06 Thread Paul
-Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of max Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:46 AM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net On Wed

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-06 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
2009/5/6 Paul j...@entel.ca: Not everyone is such a whiz that they can just go and do an in-place upgrade of any given Linux distribution. Windoze is bad enough with things breaking on an upgrade, Fedora can be a nightmare, and that is on a stock distro without manually updated or installed

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul wrote: Not everyone is such a whiz that they can just go and do an in-place upgrade of any given Linux distribution. Windoze is bad enough with things breaking on an upgrade, Fedora can be a nightmare, and that is on a stock distro without manually updated or installed packages. This is

RE: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-05 Thread Cannon, Andrew C
I would look at the ISP or the router as being the problem. I know the router has been set to work as a dumb connection, but there may be a flag that you may have missed in the configuration. Check with your ISP. Here in the UK, I've been told that my ISP blocks certain ports. It could be

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
ad...@anythinggoes wrote: Hello Fedora-list, I have a F7 server that has been working perfectly as far as getting people out into the net. But recently, I have needed the capability to access the server FROM the net. I can ping the server, but I cannot SSH in, FTP in or WEB BROWSE in..

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:07:46 -0400, ad...@anythinggoes ad...@anything-goes.us wrote: I can ping the server, but I cannot SSH in, FTP in or WEB BROWSE in.. All the appropriate servers are running and are easily accessed from within the 192.168.1.x subnet.. If you are using those

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
ad...@anythinggoes wrote: I have a F7 server that has been working perfectly as far as getting people out into the net. But recently, I have needed the capability to access the server FROM the net. Fedora 7 is no longer supported and no longer gets any updates including security updates

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: Fedora 7 is no longer supported and no longer gets any updates including security updates (!), so using it as a server is just asking the next script kiddie around you to break into your machine. Please upgrade to Fedora 10 (not Fedora 9 as that is going to stop getting updates less

Re: Accessing A Fedora 7 Box FROM The Net

2009-05-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 05:20:26 +0200, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: PS: To all those who have replied in this thread: please DO NOT ANSWER this sort of questions about unsupported releases (other than with a reply like mine). You need to pressure people into upgrading,