buildup of Windows time_wait talking to fbsd 4.10

2005-01-10 Thread Len Conrad
We have a windows mailserver that relays its outbound to a fbsd gateway. We changed to a different fbsd gateway running 4.10. Windows then began having trouble sending to 4.10. Windows netstat -an shows dozens of lines like this: source IP desitination IP

Re: buildup of Windows time_wait talking to fbsd 4.10

2005-01-10 Thread Len Conrad
Just off the top of my head... You mentioned the freebsd machine is the gateway. Do you have a firewall on the host blocking connections from the windows machine? a forgotten detail is that the windows machine sends just fine to the 4.10 gateway for a few minutes, but the time_wait inevitably

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Len Conrad
No, it doesn't. I can successfully perform a whois from here on your domain, but an nslookup/dig both fail. Give it 72 hours to propagate across the net. propagation is a bogus idea when applied to DNS. Like WMD and immediate threat when applied to Iraq. As soon as the delegation and glue

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Len Conrad
Perhaps you need to do some research on the subject. perhaps you need to clarify your vagary There are a series of DNS systems ??? For a public domain.tld, the only two servers involved are : 1. the servers authoritative for .tld to publish the delegation and glue records for domain.tld.

Re: Removing thousands of files using rm

2004-07-06 Thread Len Conrad
I often have the need to remove hundreds or even thousands of files from a single directory (very often). Using rm, I usually get: pearl# rm -rvf * /bin/rm: Argument list too long. man xargs Len ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

perl port 5.8.2 won't install?

2004-06-23 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 4.10 release # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 # make make install === Vulnerability check disabled perl-5.8.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.cpan.dk/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../src/. perl-5.8.2.tar.gz

Re: perl port 5.8.2 won't install?

2004-06-23 Thread Len Conrad
How did you update your ports collection? when running sysintall upgrade from cdrom to go from 4.7 to 4.10. These are probably stale files that should/would have been removed with a correctly updated collection. ok, I'll have a go at refreshing the ports, thanks Len

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-28 Thread Len Conrad
perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyDB' ... still gives: BerkeleyDB.xs:74: #error db.h is from Berkeley DB 1.x - need at least Berkeley DB 2.6.4 *** Error code 1 I've deleted and re-installed that db3 pkg, but still get the same error. my first try would probably be to remove all CPAN

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-27 Thread Len Conrad
$ls -alT perl* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Mar 20 15:25:53 2004 perl@ - /usr/local/bin/perl ... lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Mar 20 15:25:53 2004 perl5.8.2@ - /usr/local/bin/perl ... I have the same: # ll /usr/bin/perl* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 May 26 20:49 /usr/bin/perl@ -

perl and berkeley

2004-05-26 Thread Len Conrad
Freebsd 4.8 1. installed a perl mod that decided it needed Perl 5.8. that went ok, but now I've got /usr/bin/perl 5.0 /usr/local/bin/perl 5.8 What is the command to get the sytstem to switch to defaulting to 5.8? 2. pkg_add -r db3 also went ok, but perl -MCPAN -e 'install

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-26 Thread Len Conrad
which perl This will show which perl executable you are actually calling. the system perl: # which perl /usr/bin/perl I guess typing: /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install BerkeleyDB' that fails, too, same error Len ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: perl and berkeley

2004-05-26 Thread Len Conrad
#v+ If you want this version of Perl to be used by default, please type use.perl port #v- # use.perl port # which perl /usr/bin/perl Check out the rest of that file for more information. ports are not installed, just specific pkgs # pkg_info ... db3-3.3.11,1The Berkeley DB package,

Re: Two DNS servers with one IP address

2003-06-26 Thread Len Conrad
Is it possible to have two DNS servers with only one public IP address? no. when you run the first instance, it will listen on port 53. When you run the second instance, it will fail, because port 53 is occupied. I have a FreeBSD gateway connected to the Internet with a DSL modem, using natd

Re: Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?

2003-05-30 Thread Len Conrad
Try using the /etc/mail/access file, if you know what IP or domain it is coming from... IPADDRESS/DOMAIN550 RELAYING DENIED Best to use a message that is more explanatory. They are bounce msgs from mailer-daemon, the mailer-daemon and no spammer every read the reject text.

Re: Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?

2003-05-29 Thread Len Conrad
Is this possible? Please save me from being pushed over the line, buying a paintball gun, and going hunting. You're lucky if you can identify a set of senders, rather than random alphabet soup senders. You've identified the problem of dropping the mail only after receiving it. This is the

Re: Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?

2003-05-29 Thread Len Conrad
Ive had this happen to me and couldnt figure out any good solution. his specific case is extremely cheap and easy to fix Its one of those reasons why they should have the death penalty for spammers. no, death penalty is reserved for spammers that forge your KNOWN user accounts as the spammer's

Re: Ports Collection

2003-03-29 Thread Len Conrad
I'd like to grab some pkgs for FreeBSD 3.4. Is there any listing of which ftp sites have pkgs for old versions? On 3.4 Release, pkg_add -r for like 15 pkgs all said not found. Len ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

can't pipe to /dev/null ?

2003-03-19 Thread Len Conrad
in /etc/aliases: devnull: |/dev/null and: # ll /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel2, 2 Mar 19 11:13 /dev/null but: Mar 19 10:55:08 img10 postfix/local[41744]: 671235621: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local, delay=1, status=bounced (Command died with status 1: /dev/null) ... is fixed

Re: can't pipe to /dev/null ?

2003-03-19 Thread Len Conrad
I think variant with cat is better, if you want without it better will be devnull: /dev/null the latter works, thanks, Nik, If you you have a minute, say why the cat step is better than just /dev/null Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the

Re: Sending mail to this list

2003-03-17 Thread Len Conrad
1) The name the mailserver announces in it's HELO line must resolve via forward DNS. It doesn't matter to what, it just has to resolve. # telnet mx1.freebsd.org 25 Trying 216.136.204.125... Connected to mx1.freebsd.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.FreeBSD.org ESMTP Postfix (Postfix

Re: Sending mail to this list

2003-03-16 Thread Len Conrad
Mar 16 22:10:32 rackspace postfix/smtp[28417]: 8B00131673: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mx1.freebsd.org[216.136.204.125], delay=11, status=deferred (host mx1.freebsd.org[216.136.204.125] said: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [65.61.155.146] (in reply to RCPT TO command))

Re: Sending mail to this list

2003-03-16 Thread Len Conrad
I run many domains off of this machine - does it have to have a reverse pointer that matches the domain name for every domain Only one PTR record per ip. Applications don't know how to handle more than one. , or will it suffice to have a single correct reverse pointer? yes. Right now, the

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-08 Thread Len Conrad
I've been posting about this since the beginning on the year. A few times on freebsd-questions, once on freebsd-hackers, and submitted a PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48165). Are you sure that configuring the TX2 as RAID 0 array is what you want to do, vs SPAN (aka JBOD)? I

Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)

2003-02-28 Thread Len Conrad
ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device This is because the cblid bit in the disks indicate that the disk doesn't see the right cable (or rather the right signals it tests for). Since I dont have a dmesg from the system I

Re: can't get to ATA133

2003-02-27 Thread Len Conrad
ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ar0: 39083MB ATA SPAN array [4982/255/63] status: READY subdisks: 0 READY ad4: 39083MB Maxtor 6Y040L0 [79408/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33 ar1: 39083MB ATA SPAN array [4982/255/63]

Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)

2003-02-27 Thread Len Conrad
There are two things you might want to look at. First it trying to set the modes manually after boot. This is not recommended, and I would not do it unless on a read only file system, if setting the higher mode fails, or fails partially, you might be in for a world of trouble. To do this, you can

Re: can't get to ATA133 (Addendum to previous post)

2003-02-27 Thread Len Conrad
mx# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 [EMAIL

can't get to ATA133

2003-02-26 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 4.7R Promise TX2000 with two ATA133 drives as ata masters using the ATA133 IDE cables that came with the TX2000. dmesg shows: ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ar0: 39083MB ATA SPAN array [4982/255/63] status:

RE: can't get to ATA133

2003-02-26 Thread Len Conrad
Seems that you are running 40 conductor IDE cables. no, the tx2000 is running the tx2000 ata133 cables. the tx2000 on-board setup util is reporting mode U6, ata133 it seems that the hardware is actually running ata133 but FreeBSD is seeing it a udma33. mx# atacontrol mode 2 Master = UDMA33

EPoX ep-4g4m+ ?

2003-02-25 Thread Len Conrad
An integrator wants to use in some 1U boxes for us. With Intel 845G Any body have any horror stories? EPoX ok in general? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

RE: booting from Promise tx2000

2003-02-24 Thread Len Conrad
I might be wrong here.. but I think you need some specific raid drivers for the TX cards to work the tx2000 is seen as an standard ATA interface. no driver needed Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

booting from Promise tx2000: FIXED

2003-02-24 Thread Len Conrad
Since we only had one ATA133 disk on each TX2000 ATA channel, we skipped the TX2000 setup utility to define an array (we didn't want to run RAID or want any stinking arrays at all). We were able to boot from mobo ATA CDROM and install fbsd through the TX2000. ( btw, we always install fbsd boot

booting from Promise tx2000

2003-02-23 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 4.7 release no drives on motherboard ata channels one ATA Master drive on each TX2000 IDE channel (no Array is defined, we just want two independent disks for now) fbsd cdrom boots, finds the disks and installs fbsd. we choose boot manager because we typically have our system fail to

Re: Postfix SpamAssassin

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix? yes, as a content-filter, see the Spamassassin site, see the postfix site. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? The DNS navigates the DNS namespace until it finds a positive or negative answer, or the until DNS's that should have the answer fail to respond. Len

RE: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore? bind9 has the root-servers hints zone in its binary, but will use an external hints zone

Experiences with Adaptec 2400A?

2003-01-29 Thread Len Conrad
We are looking at this board for high-volume MX gateways. Anybody have any comments from experience? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

how to restore /usr

2003-01-17 Thread Len Conrad
Trying to free up disk space, a user accidentally rm'd /usr instead of /usr/ports. Starting with the cdrom, what is the best way to get the /usr tree back onto the disk? thanks Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: how to restore /usr

2003-01-17 Thread Len Conrad
/stand/sysinstall works so what if we did install additional dist sets + just binary base distribution? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread Len Conrad
ISTR Postfix replies with 450 to (almost) all errors by default. And there are errors where you need to escalate the 4xx response to 554 to stop the sending MTA from re-trying for days, or just harvest the 4xx ip's to a new .map filean block with 554. Postfix's new sender address

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Len Conrad
Easier said than done. I've been assigned 66.45.116.136/29 by the ISP. .136 is not a power of 2 which is required for classless reverse delegation. It should be .132/29 or .140/29 I control DNS for quadtelecom.com, but I don't control the reverse lookup. I'd like to know the exact

Re: promise sx4000

2002-12-25 Thread Len Conrad
i have promise sx4000 raid card and im trying to get it work with freebsd 5.0 so is there anyone who knows a driver for that card? Promise told me they don't support FreeBSD. There's no driver for the sx4000 and they won't provide the doc + board to develop one. Len To Unsubscribe: send

Re: promise sx4000

2002-12-25 Thread Len Conrad
and the doc only? no doc at programmers level yes, :(( Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Len Conrad
I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of The Complete FreeBSD, and I was

.sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
Trying to write a little watch-dog/keep-alive script for a couple of related daemons, an MTA and an SMTP AV scanner. This snippet works fine... if ( ps aux | grep -i ^root.*master ) /dev/null then echo then: exit code equal 0 exit 0 else try to run the daemon ... when run from the command

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
if ( ps aux | grep -i ^root.*master ) /dev/null then echo then: exit code equal 0 exit 0 else try to run the daemon ... when run from the command line, the echo text displays. But, when run from crontab every 10 minutes, the if fails, and the else clause runs. I've tried every syntax

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
Well, it was just a guess. :) I tested against my 'named' daemon, using the code you supplied and it works fine. same code works fine for my AV daemon, but not for the MTA daemon What version of FreeBSD? 4.5 Are you using the 'stock' shell? yes Did you look at the output from grep

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
What does your crontab entry look like? */10* * * * root/usr/local/bin/watchdog.sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not

2002-11-24 Thread Len Conrad
Okay, I was able to duplicate your problem. It is due to the output of 'ps' being truncated to 80 columns, the default terminal size. You are likely running a wide terminal display on your interactive session (as I do) yep, TeraTerm on Windows, very wide display. but cron will see the

Re: [OT] Spare mailservers

2002-11-21 Thread Len Conrad
We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then why do that? are you running MS

Re: Resolving hostnames takes forever

2002-11-02 Thread Len Conrad
pkg_add _r mtr And run mtr for a few hours to a couple of points a few hops beyond your ISP and see if you have big delays, packet loss, etc. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: mailing list software

2002-10-22 Thread Len Conrad
I recommend Mailman: /usr/ports/mail/mailman It's from GNU (free!), works well, and is well supported. It installed simply and easily for me. But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list password to unsubscribe? That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the

OS X POP client weird?

2002-10-09 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD port of qpopper version 4.0.4 (non-standalone) on FreeBSD 4.6.2 Release. All is working fine, except we note that two users show these errors: Oct 8 19:54:28 boxname qpopper[88744]: xxx at 12-233-2-114.client.attbi.com (12.233.2.114): -ERR [SYS/TEMP] POP authentication DB not

time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
# killall ntpd # ntpdate -db time.nist.gov 20 Sep 06:52:39 ntpdate[63322]: ntpdate 4.1.0-a Wed Aug 14 18:56:48 GMT 2002 (1) transmit(192.43.244.18) receive(192.43.244.18) transmit(192.43.244.18) receive(192.43.244.18) transmit(192.43.244.18) receive(192.43.244.18) transmit(192.43.244.18)

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
Check your /etc/localtime is correct for your timezone. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/ localtime where is the correct location. rm /etc/localtime from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab: US +415100-0873900 America/Chicago Central Time US +450628-0873651 America/Menominee

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try # rm /etc/localtime # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime # ntpdate time.nist.gov 20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset 1784.223346 sec but the correct time is 09:12 Len

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
Why dont you set it by using date 200209201514 and then use ntpdate ntpd to keep it current afterward.. this is what I always have done, but it's not working on this machine: # killall ntp No matching processes were found # date 200209201048 Fri Sep 20 10:48:00 CDT 2002 # ll

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try # rm /etc/localtime # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime # ntpdate time.nist.gov 20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset 1784.223346 sec ^^^ # rm

Re: time off by 30 minutes

2002-09-20 Thread Len Conrad
Are you running a kern_secure level that prevents jumps of more than 1 second? ah, I've commented it out but the person who set ip had rc.conf with securelevel 2. It that it?? dmesg: Time adjustment clamped to +1 second Time adjustment clamped to +1 second Time adjustment clamped to +1

Re: lsof

2002-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
I don't know what I did differently but when I tried it just now, I see Attempting to fetch from ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/NEW/. Receiving lsof_4.65B.freebsd.tar.gz (509943 bytes): 100% 509943 bytes transferred in 17.6 seconds (28.29 kBps) I would try again. mx1# pgk_add

can't intall PERL module

2002-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 4.6.2 perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc' t/f029..ok t/f030..ok t/f031..ok t/f032..ok t/f033..ok t/f034..Use of uninitialized value at t/f034.t line 332. Use of uninitialized value at t/f034.t line 332. FAILED tests

Re: can't intall PERL module

2002-09-18 Thread Len Conrad
(09.18.2002 @ 1445 PST): Len Conrad said, in 1.4K: fbsd 4.6.2 perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc' why do it that way? cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-Date-Calc make install because I've always done it the other way and it never failed thanks :)) Len

Re: BIND Question.

2002-07-13 Thread Len Conrad
I´m sure O'Reilly will get UnixHideOut to remove that ripoff, or sue them. Len http://www.unixhideout.com/library/books1/tcpip/dnsbind/index.htm Check that out. that's how i installed it and got my dns to work like a charm. Everything you need is right there.

Re: BIND Question.

2002-07-13 Thread Len Conrad
How is that a ripoff? Am i not supposed to have them? I downloaded them for free off of some site. which itself was a ripoff site. warez, huh? How am i ripping off anyone im not charging for them. Let me know if your serious i'll remove them to only be accessible by my lan. amazing

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