RE: ADSL connection problem

2001-10-23 Thread James
Not really the list for this, but... 1. Is your link really up? Can you ping the IP of yahoo.com (64.58.76.226)? 2. Can you ping your ISP's DNS? Is that IP correct? 3. Have you tried putting in another organization's DNS server? 4. What is your syntax in /etc/resolv.conf? Mine is: searc

Re: Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:18:52AM +, Martin WHEELER wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > kernels are never upgraded automatically by apt, you have to do it > > yourself: > > That's not quite true -- should you recompile your own kernel, and for > whatever reason, NOT give

RE: Unidentified subject!

2001-10-23 Thread James
I've been told that usually means just a corrupt/damaged packet and shouldn't be much to worry about, unless you are getting lots of them (Might be an attack).   - James -Original Message-From: sonam dukda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:52 AMTo:

RE: Firewall Related Question

2001-10-23 Thread James
That link might help... http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Bridge+Firewall.html - James -Original Message- From: Alson van der Meulen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:31 PM To: Debian Security List Subject: Re: Firewall Related Question On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 a

Re: Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I would suggest adding the testing source to your /etc/apt/sources.list and grabbing kernel-source-2.2.19 (version 2.2.19.1-1 has the security patches in question). Edit /etc/apt/sources.list Add deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main Save the file. apt-get update apt-get install ker

RE: ADSL connection problem

2001-10-23 Thread James
Not really the list for this, but... 1. Is your link really up? Can you ping the IP of yahoo.com (64.58.76.226)? 2. Can you ping your ISP's DNS? Is that IP correct? 3. Have you tried putting in another organization's DNS server? 4. What is your syntax in /etc/resolv.conf? Mine is: sear

Re: Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > kernels are never upgraded automatically by apt, you have to do it > yourself: That's not quite true -- should you recompile your own kernel, and for whatever reason, NOT give that new kernel a debian-style name which conforms *exactly* to the debian nam

Re: Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
kernels are never upgraded automatically by apt, you have to do it yourself: apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:09:43PM +0200, eim wrote: > Actually I'm runnning Potato 2.2r2 on some Debian Boxes which > I've upgraded to 2.2r3, the Kernel which powers the system is > s

Re: ssh vulernability

2001-10-23 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:19:58PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:21:51AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > Just as you automate everything you can, in the name of laziness, you can > > wait until stuff falls into your lap instead of going out and fixing it > > yourself

Re: Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > kernels are never upgraded automatically by apt, you have to do it > yourself: That's not quite true -- should you recompile your own kernel, and for whatever reason, NOT give that new kernel a debian-style name which conforms *exactly* to the debian na

Re: Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
kernels are never upgraded automatically by apt, you have to do it yourself: apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:09:43PM +0200, eim wrote: > Actually I'm runnning Potato 2.2r2 on some Debian Boxes which > I've upgraded to 2.2r3, the Kernel which powers the system is >

Re: ssh vulernability

2001-10-23 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:19:58PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:21:51AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > Just as you automate everything you can, in the name of laziness, you can > > wait until stuff falls into your lap instead of going out and fixing it > > yoursel

Re: apache log entry

2001-10-23 Thread curtis
Brendan, Not sure If you are who I think you are. By chance did you live in Virginia and work for Gannon LLc for a short while. If so email me back. Later, Curtis On 9 Oct 2001, at 11:56, brendan hack wrote: > Thanks to Bill and James for your responses. It was a proxy attempt. I > set up my m

Re: Firewall Related Question

2001-10-23 Thread martin f krafft
* eim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.22 12:44:03+0200]: > Is this a good choice ? or should I put another machine in my > Network, between the Gateway and the Servers, which acts as Firewall ? what's a firewall for you? a packet filter? you can surely install a packet filter on every box. iptables o

Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread eim
Actually I'm runnning Potato 2.2r2 on some Debian Boxes which I've upgraded to 2.2r3, the Kernel which powers the system is still 2.2.18pre21 while for the 2.2r3 Release of Potato it should be version 2.2.19 So, correct me if I'm wrong but Debian Potato 2.2r3 comes out with Kernel 2.2.19, right ?

Re: apache log entry

2001-10-23 Thread curtis
Brendan, Not sure If you are who I think you are. By chance did you live in Virginia and work for Gannon LLc for a short while. If so email me back. Later, Curtis On 9 Oct 2001, at 11:56, brendan hack wrote: > Thanks to Bill and James for your responses. It was a proxy attempt. I > set up my

Re: Two questions about /etc/apt/sources.list

2001-10-23 Thread Steven Barker
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:51:13PM +0800, Zhenguang Mo (163) wrote: > thanks for your help. > basicaly, the following three line is good enough to keep my potato debian > up to date? > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > (#for standard us debian) > deb http://non-

Re: Firewall Related Question

2001-10-23 Thread martin f krafft
* eim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.22 12:44:03+0200]: > Is this a good choice ? or should I put another machine in my > Network, between the Gateway and the Servers, which acts as Firewall ? what's a firewall for you? a packet filter? you can surely install a packet filter on every box. iptables

Potato 2.2r3 and Kernel 2.2.19 Questions

2001-10-23 Thread eim
Actually I'm runnning Potato 2.2r2 on some Debian Boxes which I've upgraded to 2.2r3, the Kernel which powers the system is still 2.2.18pre21 while for the 2.2r3 Release of Potato it should be version 2.2.19 So, correct me if I'm wrong but Debian Potato 2.2r3 comes out with Kernel 2.2.19, right ?

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Robinson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > Do you know how difficult and time-consuming it really is to do a manual > source code audit? Also the available programs for source code audits > can only give you hints which parts of a program might be suspicious, but > you still

Re: Two questions about /etc/apt/sources.list

2001-10-23 Thread Steven Barker
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:51:13PM +0800, Zhenguang Mo (163) wrote: > thanks for your help. > basicaly, the following three line is good enough to keep my potato debian > up to date? > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > (#for standard us debian) > deb http://non

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:46:19PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > I just made an empty package with dh_make with only a postinst > having 'rm -rf /'. Lintian says: > > $ lintian test-rm*deb > E: test-rm: description-is-dh_make-template > E: test-rm: helper-templates-in-copyri

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Robinson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > Do you know how difficult and time-consuming it really is to do a manual > source code audit? Also the available programs for source code audits > can only give you hints which parts of a program might be suspicious, but > you still

Re: ssh vulernability

2001-10-23 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:21:51AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > Just as you automate everything you can, in the name of laziness, you can > wait until stuff falls into your lap instead of going out and fixing it > yourself, if the problem is not at all likely to lead to any real problems > for yo

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:17:14AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > So, is it possible to limit those scripts or am I just thinking on > trying to put a fence around the desert? (not really sure if that's the > appropiate expression BTW :P Fencing off deserts is easy. You are t

Connection problem

2001-10-23 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
Hi, It's maybe a little bit off topic, but I think someone in this list can help me: I've got a firewall debian potato, kernel 2.2.17pre6, doing masquerading and other rules over an adsl pppoe line. All worked perfectly but since two weeks ( without doing any changes ) I'm unable to go to certain

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Christian Kurz
On 23/10/01, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:31:38PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > What does security policies for building a debian package exactly have > > to do with securing a debian box? System administrator reading this > > document will be interested in

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:46:19PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > I just made an empty package with dh_make with only a postinst > having 'rm -rf /'. Lintian says: > > $ lintian test-rm*deb > E: test-rm: description-is-dh_make-template > E: test-rm: helper-templates-in-copyr

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-23 Thread sonam dukda
Hi!   The message on our server is " IP-MASQ:reverse ICMP:failed checksum from 202.144.129.2!". What does this mean? Also the internet access has become very slow. We are connected at 64 Kbps leased line.   sonam

Re: ssh vulernability

2001-10-23 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:21:51AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > Just as you automate everything you can, in the name of laziness, you can > wait until stuff falls into your lap instead of going out and fixing it > yourself, if the problem is not at all likely to lead to any real problems > for y

RE: Two questions about /etc/apt/sources.list

2001-10-23 Thread Zhenguang Mo \(163\)
thanks for your help. basicaly, the following three line is good enough to keep my potato debian up to date? deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free (#for standard us debian) deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free(#for non-u

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:17:14AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > So, is it possible to limit those scripts or am I just thinking on > trying to put a fence around the desert? (not really sure if that's the > appropiate expression BTW :P Fencing off deserts is easy. You are

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:17:14AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > So, is it possible to limit those scripts or am I just thinking on > trying to put a fence around the desert? (not really sure if that's the > appropiate expression BTW :P even without maintainer scripts th

Re: Two questions about /etc/apt/sources.list

2001-10-23 Thread Steven Barker
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:43:48PM +0800, Zhenguang Mo (163) wrote: > Hi, > > Q1: > is http://security.debian.org/dists/ and > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/ the same thing? I'm pretty sure they are. I can't seem to check as ftp won't let me ls currently (I think that machine

Re: Hi :>

2001-10-23 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi Tom On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:46:01PM +0100, Tom Breza wrote: >Hi I got this today in my mail box, this is generated by somthing but I >don't know what is it? Why I got message from root? and why is empty? >also is strage a X-UIDL, >what can generate that kind of mail and why is empty? do you

Connection problem

2001-10-23 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
Hi, It's maybe a little bit off topic, but I think someone in this list can help me: I've got a firewall debian potato, kernel 2.2.17pre6, doing masquerading and other rules over an adsl pppoe line. All worked perfectly but since two weeks ( without doing any changes ) I'm unable to go to certai

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Christian Kurz
On 23/10/01, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:31:38PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > What does security policies for building a debian package exactly have > > to do with securing a debian box? System administrator reading this > > document will be interested i

Re: Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-10-23 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: >John Galt wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: >> >> >John Galt wrote: >> >> >> >> It really didn't need to go to -devel in the first place: this is >> >> internal >> >> to debian-security until there's a candidate. Folloups redirecte

Two questions about /etc/apt/sources.list

2001-10-23 Thread Zhenguang Mo \(163\)
Hi, Q1: is http://security.debian.org/dists/ and http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/ the same thing? Q2: do i also need to have a line saying deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free for non-us update? thanks Mo

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-23 Thread sonam dukda
Hi!   The message on our server is " IP-MASQ:reverse ICMP:failed checksum from 202.144.129.2!". What does this mean? Also the internet access has become very slow. We are connected at 64 Kbps leased line.   sonam

Re: Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-10-23 Thread Martin Schulze
John Galt wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > > >John Galt wrote: > >> > >> It really didn't need to go to -devel in the first place: this is internal > >> to debian-security until there's a candidate. Folloups redirected. > > > >Err... you have noticed that there are already t

RE: Two questions about /etc/apt/sources.list

2001-10-23 Thread Zhenguang Mo (163)
thanks for your help. basicaly, the following three line is good enough to keep my potato debian up to date? deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free (#for standard us debian) deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free(#for non-

Re: Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-10-23 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: >John Galt wrote: >> >> It really didn't need to go to -devel in the first place: this is internal >> to debian-security until there's a candidate. Folloups redirected. > >Err... you have noticed that there are already two people filling >this position,

Re: Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-10-23 Thread Martin Schulze
John Galt wrote: > > It really didn't need to go to -devel in the first place: this is internal > to debian-security until there's a candidate. Folloups redirected. Err... you have noticed that there are already two people filling this position, haven't you? Regards, Joey -- This is

Re: Does Debian need to enforce a better Security policy for packages?

2001-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:17:14AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > So, is it possible to limit those scripts or am I just thinking on > trying to put a fence around the desert? (not really sure if that's the > appropiate expression BTW :P even without maintainer scripts t

Re: Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-10-23 Thread John Galt
On 22 Oct 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The whole problem here is they DIDN'T ask you. You threw in your two >> cents worth without a corresponding pledge of support. > >It's a public mailing list, and I was simply contributing my >suggestion. Y

Re: Two questions about /etc/apt/sources.list

2001-10-23 Thread Steven Barker
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:43:48PM +0800, Zhenguang Mo (163) wrote: > Hi, > > Q1: > is http://security.debian.org/dists/ and > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/ the same thing? I'm pretty sure they are. I can't seem to check as ftp won't let me ls currently (I think that machin

Re: Multiple IP addresses

2001-10-23 Thread Marcel Welschbillig
Quite obvious when you look at it (DUH!) Thanks for all who replied. Marcel Robert Davidson wrote: IP aliasing. Cya. Marcel Welschbillig wrote: Can any one tell me the kernel option to enable on 2.2.17 to be able to specify multiple ethernet addresses in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

Re: Hi :>

2001-10-23 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi Tom On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:46:01PM +0100, Tom Breza wrote: >Hi I got this today in my mail box, this is generated by somthing but I >don't know what is it? Why I got message from root? and why is empty? >also is strage a X-UIDL, >what can generate that kind of mail and why is empty? do yo

Re: Multiple IP addresses

2001-10-23 Thread Robert Davidson
IP aliasing. Cya. Marcel Welschbillig wrote: > > Can any one tell me the kernel option to enable on 2.2.17 to be able to > specify multiple ethernet addresses in the /etc/network/interfaces file. > ie. eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2 .. on the same physical interface ? > > I know it works on the stand

Re: Multiple IP addresses

2001-10-23 Thread Jason Thomas
its called alias support, and can be found in networking options. CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:29:36PM +0800, Marcel Welschbillig wrote: > > Can any one tell me the kernel option to enable on 2.2.17 to be able to > specify multiple ethernet addresses in the /etc/network/interface

Re: Multiple IP addresses

2001-10-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcel Welschbillig wrote: > I know it works on the standard kernel but every time i compile my own > kernel i lose the ability to do this. Enable IP aliasing. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a suffici

Re: Multiple IP addresses

2001-10-23 Thread Philippe Troin
Marcel Welschbillig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can any one tell me the kernel option to enable on 2.2.17 to be able > to specify multiple ethernet addresses in the /etc/network/interfaces > file. ie. eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2 .. on the same physical interface ? > > I know it works on the standard

Re: Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-10-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The whole problem here is they DIDN'T ask you. You threw in your two > cents worth without a corresponding pledge of support. It's a public mailing list, and I was simply contributing my suggestion. You decided it should be a big Federal case. I'll ma

Multiple IP addresses

2001-10-23 Thread Marcel Welschbillig
Can any one tell me the kernel option to enable on 2.2.17 to be able to specify multiple ethernet addresses in the /etc/network/interfaces file. ie. eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2 .. on the same physical interface ? I know it works on the standard kernel but every time i compile my own kernel i lose