Linux-Networking Digest #229, Volume #10 Wed, 17 Feb 99 07:13:57 EST
Contents:
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Thomas H Jones II)
Re: 2.2.1 <-> nfs 2.2beta37 <-> Netscape 4.* ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Data for NOT using MS-Exchange. (Izak Burger)
Re: mail server (tperuzzi)
Re: Ethernet Questions? ("Jan Geertsma")
Re: telnet-question (tperuzzi)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Jim Reid)
Workaround for netgroup under NIS+ -Y (Tom Holub)
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG (Paul Newhouse)
Re: Multi IP addresses on one NIC question (James Knott)
ftpd dies and then httpd dies (Arthur F. Opiela-Young)
3com 3c509 + creative sb32 pnp (Torsten Wuensch)
test (Zoran Tkavc)
Re: Simple Samba question. . . I hope ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: BIND.. I'm loosing my MIND!! (Malware)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Alan Gauton)
Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix (Johan Kullstam)
No default gateway - routing (Adi Zislis)
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From: Thomas H Jones II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: 16 Feb 1999 15:39:44 -0500
Reply-To: Thomas H Jones II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Gauton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did thusly spew forth:
>Stuart Summerville wrote:
>> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
>PCs are named by the users. Solaris machines are named by the lecturers
>purchasing the machines or the current system admin - the 4 bought last
>year are named after mathematicians, the 2 so far this year are name
>after characters from the Magic Roundabout.
euw... what about having a consistent naming convention. ick. any way, that
yuckiness aside...
At the last job that I had adminning, the two of the domains i had set up
used demonic names taken from a table in levey's satanic bible (get it,
unix machines use daemons) and another domain used comic book characters
found in the gothier publications (eg. Dark Horse). For my personal systems,
ive named them after water events (bog, undertow, tsunami, waterspout, etc.).
*shrug*
Frankly, im one of those whos gotten tired of seeing every other system
named copernicus, apollo, or bart (as mathmaticians/scientists, mythical
characters and tv cartoon characters seem to be the most popular choices.)
So, why be completely ordinary. :)
-tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 <-> nfs 2.2beta37 <-> Netscape 4.*
Date: 17 Feb 1999 09:31:50 GMT
Raymond Doetjes spoke these words of wisdom:
: Looks like you don't have write rights
yeah, does an export with no_all_squash help?
Mike
: Matt Templeton wrote:
:>
:> I have 2 test boxes both have Redhat 5.2 that has been upgraded to
:> 2.2.1. Most of the other stuff (net-tools, etc.) have also been
:> upgraded. I use NFS to mount the home directory. I am not using
:> automount.
:>
:> The problem:
:>
:> When ever I use a button or URL that will open a compose window (i.e.
:> New Msg, Reply, Forward) netscape hangs. If I stop NFS and use a local
:> home directory, Netscape runs fine! Has anyone faced this problem and
:> found a solution???
:>
:> Thanks,
:>
:> Matt
--
<< the above email addr might disappear, reply to: >>
<< Michael.Sievers -(at)- desy.de >>
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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From: Izak Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Data for NOT using MS-Exchange.
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:46:20 +0200
A while ago I checked out a real nifty Intranet package(Forgot the name now)
that runs through apache and includes all those nice things such as calendars,
contacts and even email right through a web browser. Although some of the
applications was still a bit shaky then, the email package worked great, and is
compatible with your pine mail folders.
You can get them somewhere from ftp://ftp.obsidian.co.za/, or thats where
I got it last time :). There was also some mention of it on
www.freshmeat.org.
regards
Izak
Note: Mail from yahoo.com and hotmail.com domains will go to a special folder
and my not get read until much later. I'm sorry for this inconvenience but I
get to much spam from people in these domains.
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> Ben Russo wrote:
> [cut]
> > You could set up Web servers to handle
> > collabarative things like calenders and such.
> >
> What are the options here? Haven't seen them, except with Netscape
> Calendar Server, which isn't exactly free and doesn't run on Linux
> anyway.
>
> Or are you talking about "roll your own"?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:02:26 +0100
From: tperuzzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mail server
Richard Sydney-Smith wrote:
>
> What is the best (free) mail server?
>
> for redhat 5.2 ?
>
> richard
use sendmail (www.sendmail.org)
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Thomas Peruzzi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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0043 662 4665 653
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From: "Jan Geertsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Ethernet Questions?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:04:55 +0100
> Copying a 2 Meg file from Win 95 to Linux takes about 10-15 seconds. The
> link lights on the hub look like they are on crack. The collision light
> is on more than it's off, but the file gets there right quick.
>
> Copying the same file from the Linux box to the Win 98 box takes about 2
> minutes. The link lights blink steadily, about 4 or 5 times a second.
> No collisions, but damn if it doesn't take forever.
This is a commonly known windows shortcoming, this occurs also between to
windows machine's. Nobody really has an answer, but my problems disappeared
when tweaking the MTU settings on the windows machines. Use a program like
TweakDUN or Netlightening to be found at tucows (www.tucows.com)
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:05:15 +0100
From: tperuzzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: telnet-question
tim wrote:
>
> Hi !
> I would like to know how to avoid certain users to telnet my linux-pc as it
> is possible to do this with ftp. I know how to avoid pc with certain
> ip-addresses to do this, but not with users !
>
> thanks
>
> tim
hi tim!
I'm using logoutd for this problem,
you can configure logoutd, that the user can only log into the system
via console not via the network. See man (8) logoutd and man (5)
porttime, where you store the user-access information.
Tom
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ICS
Thomas Peruzzi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.fh-sbg.ac.at/ics
0043 662 4665 653
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From: Jim Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
vmsnet.networks.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 11:18:26 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Sexton) writes:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kurt J. Lanza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >What other varieties of harmless fun can't you stomach?
> Tele-tubbies.
Well according to Jerry Falwell the Teletubbies are not harmless....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Holub)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Workaround for netgroup under NIS+ -Y
Date: 16 Feb 1999 12:59:50 -0800
I'm running an NIS+ server on Solaris 2.6. For a long time it was running
in NIS+ only mode, but recently I've had to start hooking up Linux boxes
to it, so I've had to turn on YP compatibility mode. This works for
most things, but apparently netgroups are not supported under YP
compatibility mode (per the Solaris FAQ). We make fairly extensive
use of netgroups, so this is a significant problem.
My question is, is there any workaround less destructive than throwing
out NIS+ altogether that will allow my Linux boxes to use netgroups?
And if not, why hasn't Sun created one? This would seem to be a
pretty big show-stopper for a lot of sites which might otherwise be
interested in NIS+.
-Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Newhouse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.dcom.xdsl
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Date: 17 Feb 1999 09:21:46 GMT
In article <7acjnn$avp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Penfold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually for a long while one of the other ISP's in town sent all of their
> MAC users to us for service. It seems that everytime this lady with a MAC
> logged on ... the term server she connected to would lock up and cause it to
> reset. I know the network admin over there so I beleive him.
Well, if that's true, it's a flaw in the OS that they are running not the OS
that "this lady with a" is running. Let me guess; they are running NT?
Paul
--
ISDN is almost like actually being connected to the net.
xDSL is another order of magnitude improvement ...
Cable was due in Nov^H^H^H Dec^H^H^H Jan^H^H^H Feb? *;^(
so what am I doing on a 33.6 link?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Multi IP addresses on one NIC question
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:42:41 -0500
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <JDNv2.7065$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Donger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am also a little miffed by this install. You are saying they have 1 NIC,
>and that is it and want to do IP masq.
>
>I agree with previous. Get another NIC, set it up the correct way. Even
>better, get a third NIC, will throw hackers off from the outside...
Why the third NIC?
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The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
IBM Canada Ltd.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur F. Opiela-Young)
Subject: ftpd dies and then httpd dies
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:27:08 GMT
I have a linux box on my network. It has an apache web server hosting
3 domains using ip aliasing. So 3 different ip addresses are bound to
the lan card on that machine.
When I connect with the ftp server on the linux box from my Winnt
client (in order to move files over to the web server), I can make a
connection and begin sending files. But after about 30 files the ftp
connection freezes up. I forcefully close my ftp client down and
attempt to establish an ftp connection again, but the linux machine
will no longer respond to connection requests for ftp. In addition,
the apache server will now no longer respond to web connection
requests either! The apache server _will_ respond and serve pages on
the other domains that are not tied to the ip address in question.
I guess what I mean is when ftpd crashes, both httpd and ftpd are dead
on that ip address. Maybe it isn't ftpd crashing - maybe something's
going wrong on a packet level. I don't know how to describe this
problem, because I'm not a network expert and not very familiar with
unix either.
FYI, when I reboot the linux machine, both httpd and ftpd are
responsive again. But when I try to ftp some files it dies again.
I would be very thankful if someone can help me understand this
problem.
Art
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From: Torsten Wuensch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 3com 3c509 + creative sb32 pnp
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:14:18 +0100
i have trouble under linux, when i install both cards in the same time.
when sb32 is inside, linux says, there is no 3c509 card and when the
sb32 is outside the computer, the nic is found.
i looked on the hardwareressources but there are no conflicts. (under
windows both cards work fine.)
does anybody know a solution for this problem?
--
name : Torsten Wuensch
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
homepage : www.htw-dresden.de/~htw5636/
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From: Zoran Tkavc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:14:51 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Testing news!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Simple Samba question. . . I hope
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:20:38 GMT
In article <wS9y2.1236$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Thom V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got Red Hat 5.2 setup with Samba on a network with Windows 98. The RH
> installation is the basic workstation installation with Samba and a few
> other things added in after the install. Currently, both machines can ping
> each other and I can telnet from the Win98 machine to the RH Linux machine
> without any problems. I've even got the basics of Samba working. SMBclient
> runs from the linux box fine. I can create directories and everything on
> the Win98 machine.
>
> The problem is going the reverse direction. When I double click on the
> linux box in Network Neighborhood to access shared directories from Win98 I
> get the following message...
>
> Enter Network Password
> You must supply a network password to make this connection:
> Resource: \\LinuxBox\IPC$
> Password:
>
> Doesn't "IPC" stand for something like "Inter Process Communication"? Why
> do I need a password for this? Is there a step that I've skipped? What is
> the simplest way to resolve this and still keep some degree of security?
>
> Thanks,
> Thom Vandenberg
>
>
some basic steps should take care here
first: user on both machines identical w/ identical password
second: enableplaintextpassword somewhere in registry of 98 set to 1
( look up faqs in win98/winnt or maybe even in this newsgroup )
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIND.. I'm loosing my MIND!!
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 03:54:08 +0100
Hi Ron,
you wrote:
> This machine is going to be a DNS server and its the only one on our
> network. I've attached my "named" related files to the end of this
> post.
You should decide yourself wether you want to run version 4.9.x or 8.x.x
of BIND. In first case the main configuration file is /etc/named.boot
and the forward lookup should work.
> ***** FILE: named.boot ******
This one does look okay.
> ***** FILE: named.conf ******
Add:
zone "nativetextiles.com" {
type master;
file "db.nativetxtiles.com";
};
> ***** FILE: db.127.0.0 ******
OK
> ***** FILE: db.192.168.100 *******
Wan't you reverse resolve uranus too?
> ***** FILE: db.nativetextiles.com *****
> [...]
> nativetextiles.com. IN MX 10 uranus.nativetextiles.com.
I would move this up next to the SOA record, where you have "IN NS"
allready, and sametime emove the leading text. But it should work the
way it is too.
> ***** FILE: /etc/hosts ******
I suggest to clean up the local database. Following should be enough:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.100.139 uranus uranus.nativetextile.com
> ***** FILE: /etc/resolv.conf *****
OK
> ***** FILE: /etc/host.conf *****
OK
Malware
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From: Alan Gauton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:44:27 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas H Jones II wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Alan Gauton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did thusly spew forth:
> >Stuart Summerville wrote:
> >> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> >> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> >> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> >> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
> >
> >PCs are named by the users. Solaris machines are named by the lecturers
> >purchasing the machines or the current system admin - the 4 bought last
> >year are named after mathematicians, the 2 so far this year are name
> >after characters from the Magic Roundabout.
>
> euw... what about having a consistent naming convention. ick. any way, that
> yuckiness aside...
There are a couple of reasons for this - there are actually three or
four people deciding names of workstations in the dept. where I work,
with separate groups (Comms, SPD, Power, etc.) Secondly, we never have
system admins long enough to establish a pattern as we usually use PhD
students to give them additional experience. I'm actually the first
staff member to be asked to look after our system in years.
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AG
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Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Feb 1999 23:03:11 -0500
"Jim Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some people like IE better than NS. Simple as that.
> Wait till they see IE for Unix though...
i am a linux user. i am still waiting. i figure i'll be waiting for
a long time...
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Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Adi Zislis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No default gateway - routing
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:58:19 +0200
Help needed !
I started managing a small network consisting of 2 segments: 10.97.0.0
and 10.20.0.0. There is a Linux Box working as router ( i would like
this ! ) - its NICs : 10.20.1.1 and 10.97.1.1
I have a WEB Server in the 10.97.1.2 subnet and want to ge to the users
on 10.20.0.0 access to it by simply typing 10.97.1.2 as URL in their
browsers.
The problem is that i can not change an existing Default gateway
definition for Win machines on 10.20.0.0 ( need to be 10.20.1.1 )
because they are beyond of my control. I can not also update the routing
tables for these machines.
What are the possible solutions?
Routed/Gated? Masquerading?.....
Any kind of assistance would be kindly appreciated.
Red Hat 5.2, i486, 60MHz, 300MB
Best Regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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