Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-25 Thread Izar Tarandach
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Adam Morrison wrote: netcat.Sometimes telnet, with all its handshaking, will even take you back into problemland. Netcat is clean. Um, that's not why nc is better than telnet for ``debugging protocols''. From the telnet man page: ``When connecting to ports

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ely Levy
I'm almost sure and dont' kill me if I'm wrong that ssh works above the telnet protocol and not replacing it.. sperate between dissing the telnet protocl the telnetd and the telnet client:) maybe one day ssh would replace telnetd but meanwhile for comptibilty with the rest of the world telnted

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ely Levy wrote: I'm almost sure and dont' kill me if I'm wrong that ssh works above the telnet protocol and not replacing it.. ely, i don't know where you bring these odd claims from, but: 1. ssh does not sit on top of telnet. it sits on top of tcp. 2. ftp also does not

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm almost sure and dont' kill me if I'm wrong that ssh works above the telnet protocol and not replacing it.. We won't kill you in any case. If you are really interested you can try and figure it out from RFC-854 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc854.html) and

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Adam Morrison
I'm almost sure and dont' kill me if I'm wrong that ssh works above the telnet protocol and not replacing it.. Uh, it works ``above the telnet protocol'' in as much as FTP, SMTP, or HTTP work ``above the telnet protocol''. maybe one day ssh would replace telnetd but meanwhile for

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ely Levy
although I'm not sure I said part of the things I said were misunderstood:) am too tired to try to explain and I would accept your corrections:) sweet night to you all:) llp Ely On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, guy keren wrote: | | On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ely Levy wrote: | | I'm almost sure and

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ely Levy
Ohh come on... can you compile ssh on all platforms? ssh is not even GNU..it has some crappy licence to use it and openssh is not good enough to be used yet not mention ssh did have some exploite in it and that telnet is a protocol widely used from ftp to http and by other protocols..so don't

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Izar Tarandach
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: Oh. "Some". Which ones? RSAREF bug, that couldn't be seen in Israel? Obscure cryptography weakness, that in no way could make it weaker than telnet? Something else? From the SSH FAQ: [SNIP] 9.2. Known security bugs with SSH All versions of ssh

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ely Levy
If you compile in on sun I would be happy to know about it:) I'm preety sure ssh is protected as well.. and maybe I'm not usa/canadian citizen but usa+canada make a large part of the net we should think about them too?:P llp Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed,

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ely Levy wrote: I compiled it on both SunOS Solaris. --Ariel If you compile in on sun I would be happy to know about it:) I'm preety sure ssh is protected as well.. and maybe I'm not usa/canadian citizen but usa+canada make a large part of the net we should think

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ely Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you compile in on sun I would be happy to know about it:) bash-2.02$ uname -srv SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-03 bash-2.02$ ssh -V SSH Version 1.2.26 [sparc-sun-solaris2.6], protocol version 1.5. Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. -- Oleg Goldshmidt |

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Izar Tarandach
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: And the current is .27, not? So what's the prob? You'd be surprised at the number of places where the latest version is NOT to be found. IT Hardly obscure cryptographic weaknessess, and some have been seen "in IT the

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ely Levy wrote: Ohh come on... can you compile ssh on all platforms? yes. ssh is not even GNU..it has some crappy licence to use it it's the best there is for now, and it's free enough for me. I don't use ssh2 either. and openssh is not good enough to be used yet so

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Izar Tarandach
telnet is not a protocol, it's a service. A common mistake, it seems. Telnet is very much a protocol, as stated in RFC 854 (Postel, Reynolds). Just a nitty-picky 0.02 NIS. --izar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bindview Corporation Security Engineer - HackerShield

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ira Abramov
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Izar Tarandach wrote: telnet is not a protocol, it's a service. A common mistake, it seems. Telnet is very much a protocol, as stated in RFC 854 (Postel, Reynolds). Just a nitty-picky 0.02 NIS. you and Ury :-) yes, I'm well aware it's a complex protocol with

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think there's a Unix it [ssh1 - OG] WON'T compile on. Just look at http://www.ssh.org/portability.html -- Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time."

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Ely Levy
the fact something is open source doesn't make it freeware Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ira Abramov wrote: | On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Ely Levy wrote: | | If you compile in on sun I would be happy to know about it:) | | I don't think

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EL Ohh come on... EL can you compile ssh on all platforms? Why not? Every POSIX platform could do. And for Win32 there are many implementations too. It's open protocol, AFAIK. EL ssh is not even GNU..it has some crappy licence to use it Who cares about license? I'm not going to sell,

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EL If you compile in on sun I would be happy to know about it:) I used SSH on Solaris (x86, though, but they couldn't differ *so* much, not?) for years... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-3-9316425

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-22 Thread Izar Tarandach
Ira Abramov wrote: ssh lets me avoid having my password snooped, my remote activities spied upon, and let's me log in as remote root. Telnet is so passe it should be taken out and shot in our day and age. the client is still great for debugging though, by connecting to random TCP ports and

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread Boaz Rymland
Ira Abramov wrote:  if you want to do it real good: remove in.telnetd, rshd, talkd and whatever from the machine. in fact I don't run inetd at all on any machine anymore. and for remote terminal I only use ssh. Wow!, wont that be chopping your head as a cure for a bad cold ?... What

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Boaz Rymland wrote: if you want to do it real good: remove in.telnetd, rshd, talkd and whatever from the machine. in fact I don't run inetd at all on any machine anymore. and for remote terminal I only use ssh. What about telneting from local machines? FTPing for

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread chen
As for the ideas about this HOWTO - I think it should be a miniHOWTO as it just cant describe with great detail all the needed material - simply because the needed material is a big part of Linux networking... . I do think it deserves a howto. it will include dialup, basic firewalling,

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
BR Wow!, wont that be chopping your head as a cure for a bad cold ?... BR What about telneting from local machines? FTPing for file transfers Telnet must die. There's no telnet anymore, there's SSH. Why you need telnet if you have SSH? Just because you have a (particullary bad) telnet client in

Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-19 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Boaz Rymland wrote: if you promiss to read some about IPCHAINS and a masquarading howto or two, I'll give you the script I use, which makes my machine both a masquarader and a firewall. (*finger raised politely*) I already read it!, can I have those scripts, please

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-19 Thread chen
BTW, it all makes me wonder - is there a "home networking HOWTO" somewhere ? you didn't write it yet! :-) Thats a nice idea. Although most of the topics are probably allready covered somewhere else, and the topic is a bit big for a howto. Fetchmail should be covered. Security and

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-19 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: http://www.scso.com/linux/firewall.init.html First of all, Four-Oh-Four there :) And second, add .png as image/png in the mimetypes list. Otherwise, this tea-party image (in /linux, whatever it is :) loads as plaintext.

Re: Masquarading on a dialup connection

1999-12-19 Thread Shaul Karl
BTW, it all makes me wonder - is there a "home networking HOWTO" somewhere ? I believe that this is discussed in almost every issue among the last 10 issues of linux-gazette. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]