I just recently moved and switched from DSL to COX. I was told by a tech that the DNS(s) are set to switch every 24 hours. I am not certain of the validity of this statement, but that is what I was told.
-K On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 19:28, Doug Riddle wrote: > Is it too much to ask that they send out a notice when > they play with the DNS?! > > The Weather has been forcing me off-line, and lo, my > speed picks up after I restore the network. I should > be able to back-bill my time! > > > Doug > > --- Bill LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't know how many are having a similar problem, > > but for the last couple > > of days my web access through my firewall has been > > extremely slow. Email > > was fast. Found out that Cox has apparently changed > > its DNS search numbers. > > > > The new numbers I have are: > > > > ns.cox.net: 68.1.17.237 > > ns.east.cox.net: 68.1.17.5 > > > > After I plugged in these numbers, all returned to > > the same fast access. > > > > By the way, trying to get these numbers from COX > > support is > > impossible. They wouldn't give them out. had to go > > to: > > > > http://www.internic.net/whois.html > > > > Plug in the name COX.NET > > > > The program will return various information > > including the name servers Cox has: > > > > NS.COX.NET > > NS.EAST.COX.NET > > NS.WEST.COX.NET > > > > Again plug in the name NS.COX.NET and select the > > button "Name Server" to > > access the numbers. Then do the same for > > NS.EAST.COX.NET. You will then > > have the two numbers for Cox DNS servers. > > > > Hope this helps some. I use WinProxy for my proxy > > software because it has > > built in virus protection (by subscription) for > > HTTP, > > FTP (Download), POP3 and SMTP. To properly use the > > program, I have to plug > > in the DNS servers, thus the problem. > > > > Bill > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbies mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/newbies_brlug.net > > > ===== > Warmest Regards, > > Doug Riddle > http://www.dougriddle.com > http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.libranet.com > -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the > Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/newbies_brlug.net -- "It's not just what you don't know. The real tragedy is that you don't know what you don't know. If you only knew the magnitude of how that ignorance is being used against your personal freedom." -- totro Registered Linux User No. 258289 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030904/2b4be4ce/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 3 18:45:36 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Riddle) Date: Wed Sep 3 19:45:25 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I agree. I mentioned this in an earlier post, but an analogy wears well. I have two analogies I have used recently to the uninitiated. First - No foreign car maker could have dented the American market if the big three had not been sucking wind. They thought they were Henery Ford - "You can have any color you want as long as its black." Wrong answer dumbass. I can have any color I want. Because some smart guy will build it if enough of us want it. That is why there were the big three instead of Ford! Second - I can take the same set of ingredients and make french bread, or cake. Once I have cake, no power on earth can convert it to french bread. Likewise, if I have made french bread, not even the pope can convert it to cake. And so? Flour, salt, sugar, yeast, milk, eggs, water, labor, heat, all at different measures produce differnt results. Operating systems are not that different. Think the analogy is too far afield? Put a cake in your pocket and go for a ten mile hike, or run, and tell me what condition the cake was in at the end. Granted, you could spend a lot of money on a shock-proof container, and seal it air-tight. You might even build a buffer system to keep it in shape. Experience suggests that the effort expended exceeds the costs of many cakes. On the other hand I can run a could ten miles with a fresh loaf of french breand in my hand and at the end of the ten miles it will still be very much as it was when I bought it. This may sound like a bit of a stretch, but I have actually done this experiement. In fact I have done it several times. I used to be a lowly private in Europe. AKA a runner. "You fly, I'll buy" That is the senior soldier's motto. Trust me, the sturdier the subject, the better it does over the long haul, and in the Infantry, the long-hauls can be unbelievable! In this analogy, Microsoft products are ice sculptures and cream puffs. Their products just do not stand up to rigor. Any Army equiped with their weapons is doomed to fail. Any Army that had to eat their food would starve. "Let them eat Cake!" Sadi Marrie Gates! And the public said "Screw 911, call Morris Bart, I need help!" Sell Microsoft short, it is not a sound long-term investment. One man's opinion, but I will stand by it. Doug --- Nashid Hasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The most serious of the flaws could let an attacker > execute code from an open > Office application." > > Microsoft on Wednesday issued security bulletins for > five new software > vulnerabilities, including a flaw in Visual Basic > for Applications that the > company rated as critical. The company has posted > patches for each of the > flaws on its Web site. > > Four of the problems affect Microsoft's Office > desktop software. The critical > flaw in Visual Basic for Applications could be > exploited by a hacker to > execute code on a targeted PC, according to > Microsoft. Visual Basic for > Applications is used in many of the individual > Office applications, as well > as in some of the business applications sold by > Microsoft Business Solutions. > > Two of the other affected programs--a flaw in > Microsoft Word and a buffer > overrun in the WordPerfect converter--were rated as > important, while a glitch > in Access's so-called snapshot viewer was considered > moderate. There are two > ways an attacker might exploit the Office > vulnerabilities--through an open > document or by crafting a rogue HTML message that > gets opened by an > unsuspecting user. > > "The way to prevent those situations is to not open > attachments you weren't > expecting. And we urge everyone to apply the > patches," says Stephen Toulouse, > security program manager with Microsoft's Security > Response Center. > > Last and, according to Microsoft, of least > significance is a hole in NetBIOS > that a hacker could use to view information on a > Windows PC or server. At > worst, Toulouse says, a hacker might see "fragmented > and random" data in > system memory. Affected platforms include Windows > XP, Windows 2000, Windows > NT 4.0 Server, and Windows Server 2003. > > http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=14200390 > > ------------------------------------------------- > > It's like dejavu.... it keeps happening over and > over again and again and > again and again........ > > > Nash > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
