Re: Something with port 53

2003-11-09 Thread Steve Hovey
Still looks like dns attempts anyway - what is in /etc/resolv.conf on iP_addr_2? On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-2] Gannater János wrote: Hello, I've posted this question to the freebsd-newbies list, but there nobody could answer it. Please help me with this qestion... I have a box

Re: ICMP being blocked by ATT

2003-10-31 Thread Steve Hovey
Ive still got my traffic blocked for that reason - the second I drop the filter the pipes plug up.. On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Derek Zeanah wrote: I was chatting with our internet provider who gets their feed from ATT, he notified me that they are blocking all ICMP protocols. By gosh by golly,

Re: Load Average more than 400

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Hovey
how bout systat - that might flush up which is goin nuts On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Daniela wrote: Watch your top (or ps -ax) output. Anything odd there? Nothing odd - many mysqld processes as usual... Alexander Varshavchick,

Re: SCSI Host Adapter recommendation

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Hovey
I used to go with adeptecs, but now use tekrams - they seem faster. On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am building a department level server and am going to be running Freebsd Samba on it instead of the windows headache. The machine is going to have a 12/24GB Dat tape

Re: STrange network problem

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Hovey
You show 167 as a broadcast on the first IP line then try to use it also as an available ip On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, I've just tried to bring up a new IP alias and am having trouble using it Currently ls512# ifconfig -a vr0:

Re: Why do you prefer FreeBSD???? Maybe Windows is more comfortable

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Hovey
The full answer is way easier - business with it and NO BEEPER BEEPIN at 2AM! (and on less powerful hardware even! ) On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi All!!! I think that WinXP more popular and more easy than FreeBSD. People all over the world know what is Windows

Re: MAIL FOLDER - DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Hovey
Its created by UW's imap/pop stuff - if you actually SEE it then you must be also using something else from time to time to access your mail folder. On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, David Banning wrote: I get the following message in my mailbox from time to time. Is it really necessary to keep it there?

I asked before - sendmail relay problem

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Hovey
Nobody answered - sendmail seems open to a colon hack - and I cannot find a solution for love or money (the newest sendmail's cf still has this) The header from ordb that manages a relay is To: @buffnet.net:@buffnet.net:marvin@marvin.ordb.org Any ideas short of gettin a new mta?

sendmail question part 2

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Hovey
More looking on my earlier relay issue, its exploting route-addr - yet I still cant find a way to plug it up.. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Need a sendmail guru

2003-08-21 Thread Steve Hovey
I need the cf lines (not mc stuff) to scan for and reject any email with --0700 in the date line - its what that new sobig has stuck on every single copy to enter my system. Anyone know how to do this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Steve Hovey
same here - all from rr.com and all .pif files On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Matt Heath wrote: Charles Howse wrote: Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? All the emails have the same subject lines: Thank you! RE: That movie RE: RE: My Details RE: RE: My Details

Re: are all dsl modems the same?

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Hovey
It all depends on the provider - the tech they use - for instance, we use MVL for sdsl, whereas verizon uses something else for adsl. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, David Banning wrote: I am looking at buying a dsl modem used but I am not aware of the differences from one to the next. I am using a

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Hovey
We started blocking on no rDNS several months ago, and it's been extremely effective with low false positive problems. I heard that AOL started refusing connections with no rDNS about a month ago which makes it easier to justify our policies to the clueless. Yah - I waited for a month or so

OT: exim and no reverse dns

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Hovey
anyone know how to block email if they dont have reverse dns on pre-exim 4? I see call back stuff, and make em match stuff - but I want just, if it has NONE ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: huge /var/log/exim files

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Hovey
I do cat /dev/null mainlog etc On 6 Aug 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: /var is full, and I see that /var/log/exim files are huge [EMAIL PROTECTED]:230 pwd /var/log/exim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:231 ls -lh total 172088 -rw-r- 1 mailnull mail 102M Aug 6 10:32 mainlog -rw-r-

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Hovey
Unfortunately, dynamic usually means not a business - which often means spam - and we are all losing hair over the war on spam. I now block ip's with no reverse dns On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This isn't so much a FreeBSD topic but a comment and a request for resources.