I have decided I am not going to attend the meeting for the Battle
of the MTAs. I got the impression from the list (to which I am
subscribed to only long enough to post this) that there are few if
any members that really care to hear anything about qmail.
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Today, Peter Cavender gleaned this insight:
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
In debugging DNS issues, I'd like to know what servers my DNS lookups are
hitting to make sure things are set up correctly.
Briefly: No. The way DNS works does not lend itself
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
In debugging DNS issues, I'd like to know what servers my DNS lookups are
hitting to make sure things are set up correctly.
Briefly: No. The way DNS works does not lend itself to such things.
Briefly, Yes. You just need to install a local DNS
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, David Roberts wrote:
Just had a thought - how about we have awards presented at the
LUG meetings for longest running/best/whatever thread, and for
the most colorful comeback, during the past meeting cycle...?
The award for Least Productive would have to go to that
My point, however, is that it's still acting as a transport for insecure
protocols -- instead of having to set up VPNs or SSH, dammit, FIX THE
PROTOCOLS.
I disagree. Why should every implementor of every protocol have to worry
about authentication, encryption, and so on? Why should
Is it perhaps a low memory situation?
What is the memory/free memory?
Can you tell what processes are running and the memory they are taking?
One of my clients has an old mail server / name server / dhcp server
/ gateway that is REALLY acting up. This is a RedHat 6.0 machine
running kernel
Derek Martin said:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
HTTP adds nothing more than convenience to the command-line
challenged. It's slow and bulky.
HUH? The HTTP protocol is neither! It's a very small, lightwieght
protocol. What are you talking about?
This can
d00dz
if U get rid of kleer text passwerdz, how R all my gr00vy paket sniffin
splots i rote in vizual basik gonna werk? I dont wanna hafta learn krypto
to do hackin!
--phyber d00d
Two words: cleartext passwords.
Thanks, Derek, for bringing this up. You beat me to it.
Is there a daemon I can run besides ftp which has clients which run on
Windows and Macs to allow password protected access for uploading?
Why not samba for Win, and netatalk for Macs?
I have a server here in the office that has a globally shared
diretory: Samba, AppleShare, NFS, FTP, HTTP.
I still like the idea of collecting a reward if I find an exploit, rather
than paying to find out about them.
You. Will. Not. Have. To. Pay. To. Find. Out. About. An. Exploit.
Can we make it any more clear for you, or are you being obtuse on purpose?
I know I don't have
Well, now, hold on there a minute, Ben
If you can hold him back, he is frothing at the bit...
There is something that has
been completely missed here. Everyone keeps harping on the Security
holes big enough to drive a truck through in BIND.
Well, yes it IS a problem, being that it
If we dismissed every service that has a history of
problems, then we would have nothing. Let's see... We have to get rid of
DHCP, NIS, NFS, etc., and we can't forget about the OS's. There goes
Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSF, yadda yadda yadda..
It is not the _services_ that have the
One other nit (for me) with djbdns - I went to the web site, looked all
through it, downloaded both the tarball and the documentation tarball,
untarred went through every piece I could. For the life of me, I can't find
a license. This, of course, explains why it's not in Debian (no
Clarification: I hate using software that says, Standards aren't important;
do things my way.
You have yet to name a part of the standard(s) it does not support.
One of *my* standards for software is to NOT have a security hole big
enough to drive a truck trough be discovered every other
will still be able to get the fixes via ISC's site.
The entire reason for this is to provide better communication between
vendors and ISC. It has absolutely nothing to do with people who *USE*
BIND, just the people who *SELL* it.
Kenny
Peter Cavender wrote:
No, ISC sounds like MS
Hi-
It seems you didn't really look at djbdns too carefully, but just
gave it a quick and cursory bashing, based on misunderstandings of
both the software and the RFCs.
Many of the responses below came from people on the djbdns mailing list.
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Peter Cavender wrote:
So
Every post to the list I make, I get a bounce message back from the
following addresses...
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How can this be fixed so that
1) Posters do not get n bounces (preffered)
2) These stale addresses can be manually deleted
Thanks
--Pete
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO57547,00.html
More press on the failures of BIND; mentions djbdns as an alternative
growing in popularity.
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Thomas Charron wrote:
If other posts hold true, that the fan motor if powering according to CPU
usage ...
Slight correction: By temperature, either of the CPU itself, or some other
temperature probe point. An idle CPU in a properly configured system runs
cooler.
Not that I want to drag this whole subject up again--being mostly
a lurker myself--but isn't this type of response exactly what many folks
were saying turned them away from the list? Just thought I'd throw in my
humble suggestion to "play nice", I guess...
- Dana Tellier
On the gripping hand, I'm seriously considering giving SuSE 7.1 a try.
Heh..me too. Both on x86 and PPC.
that is why I use 6.2, with the updated RPMs, and the perpetually insecure
software (sendmail, wu-ftpd, BIND)
I'm curious... do you have an
Q: How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb??
A: None: it is a hardware problem.
Seriously, folks, learn a bit about motherboard [design].
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So why don't you run djbdns? We know vixie's record in the past, despite
all the claims.
It is crap.
They don't fix it.
'nuf said?
--P
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
There are currently 3 exploits for the latest BIND vulnerability that I
know of: bind8x.c, tsl_bind.c, and
Incorrect. Please reference Derek Martin's previous post in this thread,
where he mentions how Linux idles the CPU when it is not busy,
PLEASE REFERENCE LINES IN KERNEL SOURCE, or relevant modules.
--Pete
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Install the RedHat RPM, and stop whining.
And look at the src.rpm if you want to see how the patch works.
--Pete
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote:
Having a bit of trouble with pine 4.33 and the mail dir patch from
qmail.org. This is a bit embarrassing - but i can't get the patches
I hear all this RedHat bashing from people, but I must say I like it.
It as much or more than others I have tried (Suse, TurboLinux,
Debian, Caldera). Plus the whole installer is very easy to
customize. You can make a kickstart file and have it set the basic
system settings for you. You
I was wondering if anyone knew a preferred method of letting non-root
users mount and unmount floppies?
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Thanks for the info, but I am curious
systems). "owner" means the user must own the /dev/ file before doing the
mount, which works well on Red Hat systems, which are configured such that
anyone logging in on the console becomes the owner of the removable media
devices.
Do you have any idea
Some Government Systems have a need for this: How can you place a warning
banner on the machine at startup, before login begins, and again, at telnet
connection, before user login starts?
/etc/issue /etc/issue.net?
May be overwritten by rc scripts depending on your distro.
It is
Hi,
Well, the March meeting is coming up. I somehow volunteered to talk about
sendmail and was wondering if there is any desired format for this? I have
yet to make it to the Nashua meetings, so I don't know what tools we have at
our disposal. Projectors? Whiteboards? Paper? Fellow member's
then following the debate the two opposing sides can get in a fist
fight :-) LOL
Well I was counting on a full-contact battle to the death. How about
a Celebrity Deathmatch between DJ Bernstein and Eric Allman? ;-)
That was the format that i was hoping for..a white board may be
Just to prove that I'm still the pedantic bastard I've always been,
[...]
Granted, RedHat spells the name of its BIND rpm all in lower case,
Please note that "RedHat" is actually "Red Hat".
muttering Pedantic bastard my ass... :-)
Unless you look on *any* RedHat cd or FTP
I just finished writing a shell script. Well, not really cause it
doesn't do what I want yet. Anyway:
I have a pictures directory. in that directory are three more called
disk1, disk2, and disk3.
What the script is *supposed* to do is "ls $1*.jpg" but when I use disk*
as
I keep meaning to look for/write a utility to provide a command-line
front-end to the gethostbyname(). (Yes, I know about dig(1), nslookup(8), and
host(1) -- those all make wonderful DNS clients, but they deliberately bypass
gethostbyname(), so you can test your DNS servers directly.
In my exhaustive search of my system (a _full_ RH 6.2) I only find files
in /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/scripts/lxdialog, including a file called
BIG.FAT.WARNING that states that it is an unofficial modified version, but
these files belong to the RH package kernel-source-2.2.14-5.0
No dot-o file,
How come, when I post to this list, I get bounce messages delivered to me
personally for previous subscribers that no longer have valid email
addresses?
--Pete
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Hi All-
The Linux kernel 2.4.0 was released last night, and we have a
fresh copy, downloaded directly from kernel.org, available on our ftp
site. Just ftp into nnhlug.org and go to the "kernel" directory, and
download linux-2.4.0.tar.gz
--Pete
For the last year I have been working on making custom distros; at work I
have needed to come up with a way to install a _very_ custom linux on
special hardware. I start with the basic RedHat (6.2) install CD and
hack it up to suit my needs.
I have come up with 2 methods:
1) Delete the
Hi Cathy-
I dont have all the answers, but I have a few observations to share:
1) those extra files being sent to the printer seem to be blank postscript
jobs.
2) Those Asante appletalk/ethernet bridge boxes can be real snarky. We
had a different model connecting an appletalk net (computers
I can provide this if you have not yet found a host...
Pete Cavender
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A previous arrangement has fallen through
at the very last minute, so I wonder if
anybody here will allow me to put a single
100Kb christmas-related GIF on their WWW
Hi All,
Well, cable modems are finally available in Nashua
(and there was much rejoicing). I would like to set
up a "firewall on a floppy" using my old 486. I've
found several that seem to do want but I really don't
know much about firewalls. Which one's are people
happy with and which ones
I have Red Hat Linux 7 running on a Pentium P1 200 with 32 MB Ram and 8 GB
hard drive.
I noticed that the hard drive LED was flickering about once a second while
in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME) but goes away if I exit X Windows.
I have noticed that my CD light blinks once a second because of
Yes, it makes sense. You have all the classic symptoms of not
enough memory. Your problem is right here:
I have Red Hat Linux 7 running on a Pentium P1 200 with 32 MB Ram and 8 GB
^^
and
in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME)
RE: Codewarrior / CodeFusion / emacs / make
Hi-
When I started programming under Linux 2 years ago after 14 years on
the Macintosh, I was thrilled that Metrowerks ported their
CodeWarrior IDE to Linux, because it is the most popular IDE on the
Mac and is awesome there.
I was dissapointed,
All,
Does anyone know what the difference between the Athlon and the Athlon
"Thunderbird" chips are? I can't seem to find this info on AMD's site. I
believe that the Duron is the Athlon with smaller cache, but what is the
T-Bird?
TIA,
Kenny
As Chad explained, the cache is the difference. On
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I use SuSE which mounts root as read-only on boot.
Which is fine for those using SuSE. I would prefer it if Red Hat friends
did it that way, too. But they don't. I wanted to make sure people
understood that. The result of fsck'ing a live
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