back-resolving by server apps

2001-05-16 Thread Miki Shapiro
Hya'all Question regarding SuSE and possibly other/all distros: some server applications back-resolve the IP of the clients that connect to them. Is this done by the server application or by an OS facility? It happened to me with ssh2d server. Can this somehow be disabled? I have a friend

Re: back-resolving by server apps

2001-05-16 Thread Eli Marmor
Miki Shapiro wrote: some server applications back-resolve the IP of the clients that connect to them. Is this done by the server application or by an OS facility? It happened to me with ssh2d server. Can this somehow be disabled? I have a friend who set up samba and ISDN

Re: back-resolving by server apps

2001-05-16 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:53:59AM +0300, Miki Shapiro wrote: Question regarding SuSE and possibly other/all distros: some server applications back-resolve the IP of the clients that connect to them. Is this done by the server application or by an OS facility? To add to Eli's reply, all

mkisofs and hebrew filenames

2001-05-16 Thread Gavrie Philipson
Hi IGLUers, I was wondering if anyone here has succeeded in burning CD-Rs with Hebrew filenames on them, that are readable on that other OS. Normally, mkisofs (with the -J option to create Joliet directories) barfs on Hebrew filenames. When adding the option '-jcharset cp862', the Windows Hebrew

Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Aviram Jenik
Nadav, I disagree with some of the 'excuses' you mentioned as reasons for downtime. However, there's one that actually made me mad: 3. Electrical failure - even in Netvision's very reliable server room, with its UPSs, etc., we've had one multi-hour blackout in the last year (caused,

PP: suggested acronym - STFE

2001-05-16 Thread guy keren
PP = Political Post. i think we've seen in the past few years that RTFM is often a good solution to getting to know a subject, while STFE (Search The Fucking Engine) is often a very good solution to solving specific problems. i suggest then that using the STFE reply be considered a good

goldfish spamming

2001-05-16 Thread Ariel Biener
Hi, Has anyone else been spammed by a GoldFish add the past days ? --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: PPTP ADSL rpm

2001-05-16 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Oded Arbel wrote: - I assumed the user name would be guest@ONetvision -any one care to correct me on this ?). you should be VERY VERY careful when you place an RPM that dials into a guest ADSL account - make SURE it is clearly very visible to anyone installing the RPM -

Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Aviram Jenik wrote: Hi, The sad fact is that Israeli ISPs do not know how to collocate equipment properly. The only world class collo in Israel is Med-1s facility at Tirat Ha Karmel, it's a atomic proof bunker as I heard, some 4000-5000 square meters, some gigantic

Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 16, 2001, Aviram Jenik wrote about Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server): Nadav, I disagree with some of the 'excuses' you mentioned as reasons for downtime. However, there's one that actually made me mad: Don't get mad :) I was just giving my own experiences. If you

Re: goldfish spamming

2001-05-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 16, 2001, Ariel Biener wrote about goldfish spamming: Has anyone else been spammed by a GoldFish add the past days ? I haven't got that spam, but Israeli spam has increased considerably lately. As usual, the Jewish Genious somehow seems to find addresses that other spammers never

RE: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
The sad fact is that Israeli ISPs do not know how to collocate equipment properly. The only world class collo in Israel is Med-1s facility at Tirat Ha Karmel, it's a atomic proof bunker as I heard, some 4000-5000 square meters, some gigantic UPSs, generators, etc etc. The equipment

[OFFTOPIC] Naming the lazy ISP? (was: Re: goldfish spamming)

2001-05-16 Thread Omer Zak
The spamming issue is not specific to Linux, so I labelled it as OFFTOPIC. On Wed, 16 May 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: ... As usual, I contacted his ISP but they seem to be doing nothing about it (I'm not going to say which ISP, so people don't start comparing ISPs again...). I suffer from

Re: PP: suggested acronym - STFE

2001-05-16 Thread mulix
On Wed, 16 May 2001, guy keren wrote: PP = Political Post. i'm using this opportunity to repeat my plea - please, please _please_ use a search engine before you post your question here. hardly anyone encounters problems that weren't encountered previously by other people, and very often,

Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Aviram Jenik
Don't get mad :) I was just giving my own experiences. If you have others, or have other major reasons for downtime to talk about, please do so. Please don't take this personally. Every sys admin has a right to define his/her own 'acceptable' downtime policy. Most people I know will settle

Re: mkisofs and hebrew filenames

2001-05-16 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:47:58PM +0300, Gavrie Philipson wrote: Hi IGLUers, I was wondering if anyone here has succeeded in burning CD-Rs with Hebrew filenames on them, that are readable on that other OS. Normally, mkisofs (with the -J option to create Joliet directories) barfs on Hebrew

Re: Israeli spammers (Was: goldfish spamming)

2001-05-16 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:22:57PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: The most annoying Israeli spammer lately, from where I'm sitting, is fixfax.co.il. Another spammer, advertising some book about a conspiracy theory of Rabin's murder, had a virus (the Fix2001 W32 Worm) so the two spams I got from

Network sniffing tools - Ethereal

2001-05-16 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello! Last week there was a discussion about network sniffing tools. One mentioned was ethereal, which is a nice alternative to the venerable tcpdump. I got it going OK, but it has a silly default of sampling ALL protocols. After labouriously switching them all off, but for those I wanted, I

Another Windoze only site

2001-05-16 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Take a look at www.jobinfo.co.il using mozilla or konqueror. If anyone is interested, I can supply correspondence between this site and myself, the bottom line of which is, (1) What you see on accessing the site: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005' Invalid procedure call or argument:

Re: Israeli spammers (Was: goldfish spamming)

2001-05-16 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: I was thinking ISOC should take care of the ISP education. Since ISPs are interested in IIX peering etc., maybe ISOC should force participating ISPs to have non-abuse-tolerant AUPs and active spam departments? I emailed ISOC about this, but all

Re: PPTP ADSL rpm

2001-05-16 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wed, 16 May 2001, guy keren wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2001, Oded Arbel wrote: - I assumed the user name would be guest@ONetvision -any one care to correct me on this ?). you should be VERY VERY careful when you place an RPM that dials into a guest ADSL account - make SURE it is clearly

Re: Another Windoze only site

2001-05-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Daniel, I used jobinfo with Konqueror without any problem On Konqueror go to Window, Configure Konqueror, user-agent. You should set: jobinfo.co.il with MSIE and Windows (like MSIE 5.5 on Windows NT) Then close Konqueror, clean the cache (thats on Proxies and cache on the same

Re: PPTP ADSL rpm

2001-05-16 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Oded Arbel wrote: you should be VERY VERY careful when you place an RPM that dials into a guest ADSL account - make SURE it is clearly very visible to anyone installing the RPM - or esle, they'll dial out, use it, and later find the horrific billing on their next

Re: Network sniffing tools - Ethereal

2001-05-16 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Without too much thinking, strace -f ethereal , redirect the output with tee to a file as well, and then change the config. Look in the strace output file, and you'll see what files it accesses. --Ariel Hello! Last week there was a discussion

Re: Network sniffing tools - Ethereal

2001-05-16 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Daniel Feiglin wrote: I got it going OK, but it has a silly default of sampling ALL protocols. After labouriously switching them all off, but for those I wanted, I found next time around, that my setup was not saved anywhere. Does anyone know where Ethereal puts its

Re: PPTP ADSL rpm

2001-05-16 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wed, 16 May 2001, guy keren wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2001, Oded Arbel wrote: you should be VERY VERY careful when you place an RPM that dials into a guest ADSL account - make SURE it is clearly very visible to anyone installing the RPM - or esle, they'll dial out, use it, and later

insta-party, details (fwd)

2001-05-16 Thread Ely Levy
Please read the attached letter below and see if you can help us in any way this is going to be a big installation party and hopefully the most colorfull one of them :-) I also hope we'll get to give around GPL flyers and DESS so anyway you feel like contruting is welcome especially by comming to

Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Ariel Biener wrote: least (it's current version had almost a 2 years uptime). then i assume that the current machine isn't a 32-bit Linux machine, since its kernel's jiffies variable would have recycled after about 1.3 years, and as far as i understood, no one

Re: 2 years? can't be linux (was: Re: web server)

2001-05-16 Thread Ariel Biener
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: Just consider the implications of sending such a machine on a long term mission into space, on an unmanned shuttle. --Ariel I would be very disappointed if the max uptime is measured in years and this state of affairs is ignored by the kernel

1. ftp.tau.ac.il 2. www.exploits.org

2001-05-16 Thread Shaul Karl
1. ftp.tau.ac.il: Starting from today I am being able to log anonymously to ftp.tau.ac.il. I wonder if the few other bezeqint users who have reported to have problems with that site can do that as well. 2. www.exploits.org Yet I have a new problem: www.exploits.org, which is a free

Re: 1. ftp.tau.ac.il 2. www.exploits.org

2001-05-16 Thread Eli Marmor
Shaul Karl wrote: 2. www.exploits.org Yet I have a new problem: www.exploits.org, which is a free software site that hosts a few projects. Can people, especially bezeqint users, try to traceroute it? Through Aquanet:

Re: Israeli spammers (Was: goldfish spamming)

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Ben-Avraham
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:22:57PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: The most annoying Israeli spammer lately, from where I'm sitting, is fixfax.co.il. Another spammer, advertising some book about a conspiracy theory of Rabin's murder, had a virus

RE: Israeli spammers (Was: goldfish spamming)

2001-05-16 Thread Haim Gelfenbeyn
Hello, For me, this issue is a little more personal. I'm customer of FixFax (was before they started their spamming), and because of their spam want to move to different service, similar to theirs. FixFax's service is ok, but I'm really enraged by their spamming (received several spam e-mails

Re: 1. ftp.tau.ac.il 2. www.exploits.org

2001-05-16 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:38:13AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: 1. ftp.tau.ac.il: Starting from today I am being able to log anonymously to ftp.tau.ac.il. I wonder if the few other bezeqint users who have reported to have problems with that site can do that as well. I called

Re: Another Windoze only site

2001-05-16 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hi Hetz! I found Configure under Settings, and nothing that looked like user-agent. I'm using Konq V1.9.8 under KDE 2.0.1 straight out of the SuSE 7.1 box. Have I missed something? Thanks, Dan Feiglin Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Daniel, I used jobinfo with Konqueror without any problem

Re: Another Windoze only site

2001-05-16 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello Hetz, I found Configure under Settings, but nothing that looked like user-agent. I'm using Konq v1.9.8 under KDE 2.0.1 straight out of the SuSE 7.1 box. Have I missed something? Regards, Dan Feiglin Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Daniel, I used jobinfo with Konqueror without any problem