[SLUG] Re: Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-09 Thread Jeremy Visser
Thanks for the advice, everyone. It seems the best option is for me to simply go request a temporary chunk of addresses through a broker. I managed to get on with AARNet (a single IP, not a /48, just for testing) using some linux.sh script, which was much easier than setting up 6to4, which I did

Re: [SLUG] Re: Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-09 Thread Christopher Vance
You may find one of the other free brokers can handle a moving IP4 at your end. Check out sixxs.net. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Re: Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:49:06PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: Thanks for the advice, everyone. It seems the best option is for me to simply go request a temporary chunk of addresses through a broker. I managed to get on with AARNet (a single IP, not a /48, just for testing) using some

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] IOWait definition]

2008-10-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
iostat can be a bit special.I -think- under linux its the amount of time spent waiting for pending disk IO to complete. Now, some chipsets and their drivers seem to spend a lot of time in IOWAIT compared to others. The traditional difference was polled vs dma'ed disk IO - with polled IO, the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] IOWait definition]

2008-10-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008, Adrian Chadd wrote: Now, you could go groveling through the kernel to try and figure out whether IOWAIT includes nfs activity (which I believe would be the disk IO related to NFS, but it could be other things I guess) and first see if doing userspace disk IO does a lot

[SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Phill O'Flynn
Hi everyone I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I was getting a lot of idiots from eastern Europe and Russia tring to crack my server. This has been ok  but now is prooving to be too

[SLUG] Re: Atom cpu mobos

2008-10-09 Thread billb
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Ken and Dion today I bought an Intel D945GCLF2 mini-itx mobo with a dual-core Intel Atom processor for 10180 Yen (on sale). Last night found reviews for Atom CPU mini boards http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/atoms/ and this

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/9 Phill O'Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I was getting a lot of idiots from eastern Europe and Russia tring to crack my server. This has

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Phill O'Flynn wrote: I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I was getting a lot of idiots from eastern Europe and Russia tring to crack my server. This has been ok  but now is prooving to be

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] IOWait definition]

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:50:52AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've never seen IOWAIT for NFS client traffic (ie, traffic from an NFS client talking to an NFS server) but who knows, this is linux.. I would say this doesn't count to iowait either; see fs/nfs/pagelist.c:nfs_wait_on_request() -- it

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
you can configured your sshd's configuration in /etc/ssh/sshd_config however in your case you might want to look at denyhosts http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ Dean Phill O'Flynn wrote: Hi everyone I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread jam
On Friday 10 October 2008 07:29:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I was getting a lot of idiots from eastern Europe and Russia tring to crack my server. This has

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phill O'Flynn wrote: I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I was getting a lot of idiots from eastern Europe and Russia tring to crack my server.

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008, jam wrote: On a non-standard port I've had ZERO login attempts over the last 3+ years, compared (like you) to 10s and 100s per day. This is trivial to implement even has the advantage of multiple servers/virtual servers behind a DSL router (different non standard for

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Sydney Jathanna
I guess the best approach would be to consider using Port Knock http://www.portknocking.org/ Cheers, Brian On 10/9/08, Phill O'Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I

[SLUG] Changing default ownership of /dev device in Ubuntu Hardy

2008-10-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I currenty have a device with the following permissions and ownership: crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Oct 10 11:05 /dev/ttyS0 Where and how do I fiddle to changes this so it sticks across reboots? TIA, Erik -- - Erik

Re: [SLUG] Changing default ownership of /dev device in Ubuntu Hardy

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Finneran
Hi all, I currenty have a device with the following permissions and ownership: crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Oct 10 11:05 /dev/ttyS0 Where and how do I fiddle to changes this so it sticks across reboots? The short answer is udev (or at least that is the approach I have taken in

Re: [SLUG] Changing default ownership of /dev device in Ubuntu Hardy

2008-10-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Where and how do I fiddle to changes this so it sticks across reboots? Here we go: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/5003#comment-36703 A file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ containing: SUBSYSTEM==tty, KERNEL==ttyS0, OWNER=lp, GROUP=lp Erik --

Re: [SLUG] Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-09 Thread Mick Pollard
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:38:33 +1100 Jeremy Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day SLUG, Hi Jeremy, I'd actually like to get my hands on a small chunk of address space that I could play with and make my own. Unfortunately, according to the APNIC website: Enjoy playing with IPv6 but don't

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
Brian Sydney Jathanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/9/08, Phill O'Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I was getting a lot of idiots from eastern

Re: [SLUG] Re: Requesting IPv6 address space

2008-10-09 Thread peter
Jeremy == Jeremy Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy I'm guessing that ticking the Request a /48 prefix box will Jeremy give me a few addresses that I can set up my server to route Jeremy and advertise the scheme via radvd...correct? Yup, except they're no longer handing out /48s ---

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 10/10/2008, at 10:58 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Personally, I use fail2ban[1] which uses the cruder, but still effective, technique of reading your logs and blocking people who try to guess passwords via iptables. I use with great success an iptables rule to limit new ssh connections

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:41:57PM +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: On 10/10/2008, at 10:58 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Personally, I use fail2ban[1] which uses the cruder, but still effective, technique of reading your logs and blocking people who try to guess passwords via iptables. I

[SLUG] managing a adaptec 1430sa

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one out there uses one of these to do hardware raid. I thought I might set it up in raid10 with 4 1Tb drives. My questions on this is what software do I use to alert me if there any problems and will it show up as 1 scsi device (or is it a silly software raid solution

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Kyle
Well, Michael and Alex beat me to it. That's what I was going to say; use iptables. Though Alex's rules are somewhat more complex than mine, I think mine do the same. After setting up the chain, my salient rule is just; -A INBOUND_FILTER -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m limit --limit

[SLUG] ssh logins (ctd)

2008-10-09 Thread Jim Donovan
122.116.243.233 has been hitting me today, apparently from Taiwan. I blackholed him by hand. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html