Andy Hutchinson wrote:
>
> George,
>
> I had exactly the same thing happen when a machine was left with an Alta
> Vista home page in the browser. The banner ad keeps refreshing itself every
> 5 minutes or so. This kept the diald timers running and so diald didn't
> shut the line down.
>
> I don't think there are any diald filters or ipchains rules that can be
> applied to overcome this situation other than preventing the banner ads in
> the first place.
>
> Unlike your experience I though that another couple of minutes on line
> compared to the 50 hours already spent was worth using to investigate the
> problem further. The diald monitor output showed that the line was being
> kept up by one connection. I then used www.samspade.org to trace the IP
> address and so discovered the banner ad site. I then went around the
> machines to find the one still on with an Alta Vista home page. Shutting
> this off allowed diald to time out the connection and the line dropped.
>
> Maybe you should be looking for something similar.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andy.
>
> ----------
> From: George Mailer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 August 2000 13:37
> To: linux-diald mailing list
> Subject: diald quandery ???
>
> I have been using diald-0.16.4-1 on a RedHat Linux version 2.0.32 system
> for
> several
> years without problem.
>
> I just came back after a day away to find it has been connected to my ISP
> for over 30
> hours ( at local telco rates in the UK !). ( It was running 'normal' and
> not
> 'forced').
>
> - the normal rules didn't apply and upon investigation I found that sl1 was
> running - not sl0
> as normal - I can't see why ???
>
> - I tried restarting diald and it didn't clear the problem so for ease went
> for the panic button
> and did a reboot - all seems OK again now.
>
> - there would presumably have been no traffic on the link for the majority
> of this time.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what could have been wrong and how might
> be
> best to
> prevent a re-occurance !
>
> Thanks in advance - regards - George.
>
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Hi!
For this type of problems you should all try Junkbuster
http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/
It is a proxy that filters out all kind of banners. It has a 'blocking'
file regularly updated that contains general filters and known locations
of banner files.
It can also filter cookies etc...
Those banners won't even be loaded and they'll be replaced by some 1*1
transparent gifs.
Trust me, it's like television without commercials.
Bye,
Peter
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