Linux-Networking Digest #667, Volume #11 Fri, 25 Jun 99 16:13:54 EDT
Contents:
Re: HowTo Monitor Internet Acvities While At Work? ("Jimmy Navarro")
Re: which firewall is the best? (Duncan Simpson)
double unlock on device queue! (Thomas)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (J. Maynard Gelinas)
Re: FTP using Netscape (David Goldstein)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Terry Carmen)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("John Hughes")
Problems with ncpmount ("Ted Ritchie")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Terry Carmen)
Re: mtu and problems access web sites (Clifford Kite)
Only can ping other box when ethernet card is in promisuous mode ("Markus Jahn")
Re: ifconfig can't set MTU (Klaus Doth)
Newbie DNS Question (Shonne)
Acer NIC and linux? (Elvis Chen)
Re: Acer NIC and linux? (Elvis Chen)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Terry Carmen)
hosts.allow or hosts.deny (Marty Bowers)
Loopback has no address in RH5.2 ("David Wolverton")
Re: YOUNG BEAUTIFUL MODEL AVAILABLE (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Re: burning a Redhat 6.0 download to a CD (Roger Atkinson)
Re: (almost panic) Re: Help: domain propagation (Dave Hamilton)
Re: Linux to replace NT Server (Richard)
Re: Strange NFS problem (J�r�me PETAZZONI)
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From: "Jimmy Navarro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
Subject: Re: HowTo Monitor Internet Acvities While At Work?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:20:16 -0700
Ron DuFresne wrote in message <7kvf3m$e68$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In comp.unix.questions Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: I work around huge comporate network of NT servers: SMB server, PDC,
>: firewall, routers, e-mail servers, etc... Is there way to remotely
>: monitor or track down employees abusing the LAN-to-Internet continuous
>: connectivity surfing the WWWduring working hours with their Ethernet
>: connected Windows 95/NT workstations? Any suggestion?
>
>
><grin> perhaps ya should spend yer time there at work doing just that,
>rather then looking into what everyone around ya's doing...
>
>Laterer,
>
>
>Ron DuFresne
Hi, Mr. Ron DuFresne with dodo brain, fyi I was just posting the question
was asked me by a MCSE NT System Administrator who doesn't work around Unix
is there's something he could do and this issue is not even my concern.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: which firewall is the best?
Date: 25 Jun 1999 17:37:03 GMT
In <7knokn$2r0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Mike Bowie - CITYPRO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
First move when putting in a firewall is deciding on a secutity
policy. You are allowed to update it but start by *writing* one. This
will allow you to evulate solutions (SOKCS, FWTK, IP masqerading, etc).
>What do you want to stop? I wouldn't call SOCKS a firewall by all means,
>and FWTK is a long and arduous task to get the best out of.
Both are possible componments of a firewall. If you do not know what
you are doing then get a pre-conifgured firewall consistent with your
security policy. Remember these boxen are subject to serious paranoia.
>You may be better off looking at a kernel level solution like ipchains or
>ipfwadm. There is lots of info on them on the web and there is a dotfile
>generator that will help you make you firewalling scripts from x-win.
>Have a look at these links....
>http://www.imada.ou.dk/~blackie/dotfile/
>http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/
Again, to use these you need to understand what you are doing and what
your security policy is. Without this you are lost. Read the ORA
firewall building book.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: double unlock on device queue!
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:53:44 +0200
Hi everyone,
I wrote my own network-driver and a client-server program which sends a
data buffer of different size from client to server and back. For bigger
buffer
sizes sometimes the computer hangs with the following debug message:
"kernel: double unlock on device queue!"
Does anyone out there has an idea whats the reason for this message?
Hope someone can help
Thanks
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Maynard Gelinas)
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:00:52 GMT
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:19:09 +1200, Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:40:29 +1200, Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >
>> >Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> >> >
>> >
>> >> If you read the supplied URL above, you'll learn that microsoft doesn't
>> >have
>> >> to cheat, to give a better performance than linux on an SMP box.
>> >> Personally, I'd like to see the results on the same machine, when
>> >> linux is swapped out for solaris.
>> >>
>> >But Linux != Solaris, the benchmark is between Linux and NT.
>>
>> So f*cking what? I'm often cited as one of the most
>> rabid Linux Zealots here and if I had the budget for
>> a Quad Xeon I'd go get Sun hardware.
>
>My point being
>a) No one in either Linux or NT camp will dispute that Solaris scales better
>than either OS (if they do, they're idiots)
>b) Whenever scalability is mentioned, most Linux users start talking about
>Solaris, which as I pointed out != linux
>
Jedi's point is still valid. Quad and eight way x86 systems lack
enough bus bandwidth to make such a system comparable I/O performance
wise to something like a Sun Enterprise 3000/4000 class system. Just
because it has the same number of CPU's (and even a similar price
point), doesn't make the system any more scalable. I doubt
Solaris/x86 could do significantly better than NT on such x86 class
hardware for this very reason.
Steven Tweedie discussed this issue at USENIX and was very
specific about why Linux performed badly on that Mindcraft test. OK,
so currently Linux-2.2 only spinlocks the entire networking stack
instead of individual card drivers -- this is why Mindcraft chose a
four CPU system with four network cards. And OK, so multiple threads
in a process when taking an I/O request all wake up at once... a more
serious issue that's getting addressed in 2.3.x -- but these issues
hit at the _fringe_ of high performance systems. You should _not_ buy
x86 for this kind of load... I certainly wouldn't recommend it to my
management.
And I don't see Rob Malda complaining about the poor performance
of his dual-CPU x86 box running Linux and serving Slashdot to a
_large_ audience. Do you honestly think NT would provide better
uptime and throughput than Linux for that task?
Cheers,
J. Maynard Gelinas
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From: David Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP using Netscape
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:36:59 +0200
Tony C wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am running RH 5.2 with the included Netscape browser. I can browse the
> internet just fine, but for the life of me I cannot remember how to get ftp
> set up within Netscape. When I click on a link I do not get an option to
> save the file to disk, as I do in IE4 on Win98. The file seems to transfer
> but the results are displayed in the Netscape window. This is fine for text
> files but doesn't work well for binary downloads :).
<snipped>
> Thanks
> TC
Hold down the left-shift key when clicking on the link. If you foret
and it loads in to the Netscape window, do not panic. You can simply
save the file when it is down downloading. It does not matter that it
is a binary file :)
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Carmen)
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:55:34 GMT
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:28:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy
Kelley) wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:18:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Carmen)
>wrote:
>
>>FWIW, the most reliable servers I've ever seen were Netware 3.x and 4,
>>where they were simply installed, stuck in a closet and ignored. Many
>>have been running for years with no reboots or failures.
>
>Yeah but when there's a problem in netware it is usualy a real big
>problem. I think it is even worse than NT in many respects. Most
>people think netware is so stable because it really isn't doing much
>of anything.
I don't see that as a problem. There are worse things than having a
whole machine who's purpose in life is to give you files when you ask
for them and keep out Evil People.
OTOH, when it goes, it's usually a disk failure, and yeah, it's
usually very bad.
Terry
"It's much easier to develop software using actual technology, instead of just made-up
stuff."
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From: "John Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:30:14 +0100
Well you couldnt have configured it properly. We are running an NT box for
web serving and email. Also 2 other servers with SQL Server and we havent
had any crashes in 2 years.
yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Terry Carmen wrote:
> >
> > While it's very easy to bash NT and come up with amazing statistics
> > supporting either operating system, I should mention that NT is very
> > stable if you do a proper install on certified hardware and don't load
> > it up with a bunch of crap.
> >
> > If you take NT certified hardware, install NT, the web server of your
> > choice and a recent service pack, then log off and walk away from the
> > console, it will run quite nicely for a very long time.
>
> Hmmm. I was running NT server on a name brand system, stock install,
> the only two packages that were non-MS were wingate and seagate backup.
> I made sure the service packs were installed (with R&RAS you have no
> choice.)
>
> As MS-Proxy is way too expensive, and NT does not come with a backup
> that's any good, I'd say that's a minimum of stuff.
>
> No IIS, no nothing. The ONLY thing this server was supposed to do was
> provide file service and proxy service. That's it.
>
> It never ran longer than a week without a crash of some sort.
> Typically, it was R&RAS that quit working; file service was pretty
> stable (except for the time that the server froze, and took the entire
> NTFS with it. Seagate backup proved its worth that day).
>
> I reinstalled the entire server 3 times in one year. After 18 months of
> this, the overhead of maintaining the damn thing become too great.
>
> >
> >
> > This is a central flaw in the design of Windows, and one of it's
> > dirtiest secrets, that there are a virtually infinite number of
> > possible DLL combinations, depending on what's been installed, and
> > they're not all compatible. However, if you install a good set and
> > leave it alone, it's usually OK.
> >
>
> Absolutely - I agree that the entire Win32 paradigm is fundamentally
> flawed at its core levels. Every software package mucks about with the
> core OS, both in the registry and the DLLs. It is impossible to design
> in stability, or even make a realistic assumption of system behavior,
> when the admin has no control over what is actually running. Worst of
> all, there is no way to truly uninstall a package once the DLLs have
> been changed a few times.
>
> Yan
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From: "Ted Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with ncpmount
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:29:40 GMT
This is a bit of a strange one....for me anyway.
I am in the process of setting up a new server using Redhat linux 5.2. I
have patched the Kernel to 2.2.9 and also added all the suggested patches
from Red hat. On top of this I have downloaded the latest ncpfs package. I
can do an slist and the netware servers are visible, but when I try to mount
a volume I get the following error:
ncpmount: Operation not supported by device in mount(2)
The exact same command I am using on this new server works perfectly on a
different server (using kernel 2.2.5). I'm wondering if there is something
in since the 2.2.5 kernel that breaks the ncpmount.
Any help or suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks,
Ted Ritchie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Carmen)
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:56:38 GMT
On 24 Jun 1999 16:23:27 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke) wrote:
>Terry Carmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>While it's very easy to bash NT and come up with amazing statistics
>>supporting either operating system, I should mention that NT is very
>>stable if you do a proper install on certified hardware and don't load
>>it up with a bunch of crap.
>
>What the heck is certified hardware?
It's hardware listed by Microsoft as having been tested with the OS
and found to work properly.
> Is a HP Kayak workstation certified?
Beats me. I never looked for it.
Terry
"It's much easier to develop software using actual technology, instead of just made-up
stuff."
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: mtu and problems access web sites
Date: 25 Jun 1999 09:35:01 -0500
Lucas Fisher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am having an odd problem accessing certain web sites like www.hotmail.com
: and www.buy.com. I have a dial-up ISP accout and am using pppd 2.3. When
: the mtu of ppp0 is set to 296 I can access these web sites fine, but if I
: change the mtu to 1500 I can no longer access these web sites. The browser
: connects to the site, but then sits there waiting indefinately for a reply.
: Why is this.
: I don't just want to set the mtu to 296 because this linux box is an ip masq
: gateway. The client computers (linux and win98) have the same problem and
: same work around. I don't want to have to set the client computer's
: ethernet mtu to 296. Any ideas?
The sites that cause trouble probably implement Path MTU (PMTU) discovery
which attempts to find the smallest MTU, the PMTU, along the path and use
it to prevent fragmenting. Large packets can get silently dropped and
things get stuck when the ISP (or Linux, I don't know whether it does
or not) doesn't support PMTU discovery. You'll know about as much as
I do about what's involved after reading the Introduction and Protocol
Overview in
http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/view?1191
I do know that removing any pppd mru option *might* help. Beyond that
you may just have to find the largest mtu value that works and use it,
552 and 576 are candidates.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Microsoft is a great marketing organization.
* It _has_ to be */
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From: "Markus Jahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Only can ping other box when ethernet card is in promisuous mode
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:20:22 +0200
Hi. I am trying to connect a linux (suse 6.1) and a windows 95 box. The
problem is that I only can ping the other box when the ethernet card is in
promiscuous mode (i use "tcpdump -i eth0" to do so). Why can't I ping the
other machine without using tcpdump?
Please Help
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From: Klaus Doth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ifconfig can't set MTU
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:26:34 +0200
Clifford Kite wrote:
>
> Klaus Doth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : I have a problem with ifconfig since I've updated my old Suse 6.0-Linux
> : to Version 6.1.
> : When I use the old kernel (2.0.36), ifconfig can set the MTU of the
> : EQL-device to any value, but if I use the new kernel (2.2.7) ifconfig
> : exits with the error "SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument"
>
> : Has anybody an idea how to get ifconfig working again without using the
> : old kernel?
>
> You know that the new 2.2.x kernel series needs upgraded net-tools don't
> you? If not then you need to read the Documentation/Changes file in the
> kernel source tree. The latest stable kernel is 2.2.10 and there may be
> PPP problems with any less than 2.2.9 .
OK, I've updated to kernel 2.2.10 and my net-tools-version is 1.52 but
the
error is still there.
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From: Shonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie DNS Question
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:15:58 GMT
This may sound stupid, but under DNS what server do I get the forwarders
to? A root server. My network only has one primary and one secondary
DNS?
--
yes, Linux works. Good. Damn Good.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Elvis Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Acer NIC and linux?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:03:42 -0400
greetings,
I'm about to purchase an Acer NIC (ALN-325) which is PCI, bus-mastering
ethernet card. However, I couldn't find any information about which
chipset this ethernet card is made of, thus I don't know if they works
under linux.
So, Does this card work under linux? Which driver should I use to
recompile the kernel with?
thanx in advance,
Elvis
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From: Elvis Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acer NIC and linux?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:29:18 -0400
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Elvis Chen wrote:
> So, Does this card work under linux? Which driver should I use to
> recompile the kernel with?
never mind.... Acer provides linux driver source in the website, which I
just found out.
Elvis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Carmen)
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:53:40 GMT
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:24:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>
>>While it's very easy to bash NT and come up with amazing statistics
>>supporting either operating system, I should mention that NT is very
>>stable if you do a proper install on certified hardware and don't load
>>it up with a bunch of crap.
>
> But loading a machine up with crap is what it's there for.
> This is especially true in with Microsoft based machines
> as they're supposed to be better due to the wider range of
> crap available for them.
I actually prefer simpler servers.
My very favorite is Netware 3.1 with no 3rd party NLMs.
Just start it up, configure it, and lock the door.
I've got installations that haven't been touched in ages, and have
never crashed, and in some cases the customer doesn't even know where
the server is.
Terry
"It's much easier to develop software using actual technology, instead of just made-up
stuff."
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From: Marty Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hosts.allow or hosts.deny
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:10:21 -0500
I was curious, if you put a name in etc/hosts.allow, and then you put
the same name in hosts.deny, would that host be allowed or denied?
Which file does Linux look at first?
--
Marty Bowers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David Wolverton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Loopback has no address in RH5.2
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:25:28 -0500
Sorry if this is a Dup - my news viewer doesn't show this posted 12 hours
later, so here I go again...
Fairly new to Linux Red Hat 5.2 - My system's Loopback device (lo) (which
should
be 127.0.0.1) doesn't display an address when reviewing through the
X-Windows based control panel. It will also not allow me to add the address
since "lo" is a special device. The system is running in init3, so all
network services
should be running - I can ping any other attached device, but I cannot ping
lo or 127.0.0.1 with any
success. Suggestions on where to read or what what to do to get the address
on the lo device?
It shows in /etc/hosts with the address, but is not attached to that address
in config screens and won't respond to pings...
Thanks for any light!
David Wolverton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Subject: Re: YOUNG BEAUTIFUL MODEL AVAILABLE
Date: 19 Jun 1999 01:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What the hell does a parisian model want with a bunch of Linux geeks? Hmm...
> Maybe she wants us for our charm, humo - waitaminute, we're geeks! We don't
> have any of those qualities!
> She just wants free tech support! Damn the lying wench!
I hear she's a wizard at sendmail configuration...
Keven
--
tc++ tm+ tn t4- to ru++ ge+ 3i c+ jt au st- ls pi+ ta+ he+ so- vi zh sy
==============================================================================
Science-Fiction Adventure
In Reavers' Deep
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From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: burning a Redhat 6.0 download to a CD
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:06:15 -0700
Hi All, I agree that getting a cheap CD is easier but here is how i
accomplished what you wnat to do. First, rather than downloading the
disto (which will work if you make sure all the dir links are good) I
downloaded the ISO Image from linuxberg.com. They even had a readme that
helped me to use Easy CD Cdreator on my Windoze machine to burn the
image. Worked great ! Then all I had to do was download the Install
floppy images and write them to Floppies (boot, rescue, pcmcia).
I did the above to prove that linus was worth investigating in our
Enterprise and so far it's paying off. I'm on my way to the store to buy
a Boxed set and to get the information for Corporate support. Just
doing my part for the Linux communityb :-)
HTH, Roger Atkinson Unix Sys Admin
"Christopher G. Karras" wrote:
>
> Try www.cheapbytes.com for an inexpensive CD-ROM.
>
> Chris
>
> Ken Szeto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:qrjc3.25279$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello everyone. I am new to the Linux world and will need a lot of help
> in
> > the near future... if it wasn't for the course that I have taken last
> week,
> > I would still be blinded by Microsoft's crappy Windows OS. Let's put it
> > this way, since I learned what Linux can do, I am more that excited! If I
> > can successfully implement Linux at home, I will seriously consider
> trashing
> > Windows at home for good and will persuade others to join the Linux world.
> >
> > Anyway, enough BS. My real question is that I have downloaded Linux
> > (Redhat) 6.0 from ftp.cdrom.com yesterday and would like to make a
> bootable
> > CD-ROM distribution of it. I used Windows NT workstation and Adaptec EZ
> CD
> > Creator to burn a CD. The result, failure! I think the files downloaded
> > were good but I was stupid enough to burn the CD using Juliet format
> instead
> > is ISO 9660. However, will ISO 9660 read / register the long filenames in
> > Linux? Is it wrong to use Windows NT and EZ CD Creator to burn the CD?
> >
> > Any suggestion is welcome and thank you in advance.
> >
> > Ken Szeto
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: Dave Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: (almost panic) Re: Help: domain propagation
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:43:32 GMT
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see
the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scientia
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abstract:
> 1) I have got a domain but after several days, it does not work yet.
> 2) Even my IP does not work: if I browse http://216.121.32.8
> it is not seen
The fact that you can't browse your IP address has *nothing* to do with
DNS issues. I tried browsing your IP as well and I couldn't. That's
indicative of your machine not responding as a web server, and nothing
more. Once again, once you start using IP addresses, DNS is COMPLETLEY
taken out of the picture.
> >In the first place, "oxygen.colossus.net" HAS propagated, at
> >least to this part of the net
>
> I really don't understand what you mean.
> My domain is not "oxygen.colossus.net"
Doing an nslookup reveals:
Name: oxygen.colossus.net
Address: 216.121.32.8
> My domain is not a com/net/org so it is not in the Internic database.
> It is in an Asian database and it is registered correctly.
No, it's not registered correctly. Apparantly there are two people out
there that they have claim to the 216.121.32.x range... and the folks
at "colossus.net" are one of those parties, at least as far as
registration goes.
The big question here is "what is your domain"? With that, we could do
a lookup from "outside" and test it. Without that, then there's no way
to test. As far as the rest of the world's concerned, 216.121.32.8
belongs to oxygen.colossus.net. Perhaps your provider has just
(mistakenly) given you the wrong IP address.
-Dave
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From: Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Linux to replace NT Server
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:02:26 -0600
Roger McIlmoyle wrote:
> Steve Bui wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I am trying to find out how to setup a linux machine to perform the
> > duties of an NT server (i.e. authenticate users, resolve domain names,
> > etc) If anyone can help or point me in the right direction, it would be
> > greatly appreciated. THanks
> >
> > --
> > Steve
>
> Why ? You have just described all of the services of NT, perhaps you really
> want NT ?
> You could you Samba for file services, otherwise...
maybe he wants less overhead? duh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J�r�me PETAZZONI)
Subject: Re: Strange NFS problem
Date: 25 Jun 1999 17:40:59 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fung Wai Keung) writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have 3 RedHat machines, where 1 of them act as the NFS server.
> The NFS server serves user directories /home/users/XX to the machines,
> where XX is username of an user. If I login as one of the user into nfs
> client machine or access the user directory (like ls) in nfs client
> machine, I get NFS server not responding error. For user directories,
> they work fine. I also export other filesystems from the nfs server to
> client machines and these filesystems also work fine. Any idea to solve
> the problem?
>
check that your NFS fs are REALLY mounted (not mounted with automounter,
or in bg). if they are mounted "in the background", the client attempts
the "real mount" when you access it.
when you will have it really mounted (the server log should say
"client blah blah tried to mount /blah/blah"), if it still doesn't work,
you're really in trouble :(
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