[GNHLUG] No August 2012 SLUG meeting

2012-08-06 Thread Robert Anderson
I will be out of town during the normal 2nd Monday SLUG meeting this month. The next SLUG meeting will be on the 10th of September 2012 (normal "2nd Monday" at 7pm). Hope everyone is enjoying this HOT summer, or at least tolerating it! -- Robert E. Anderson (603) 862-3489 Associate Director R

Re: [GNHLUG] GNHLUG and Drupal BBQ parties: Sept 8 and Aug 25

2012-08-06 Thread Seth Cohn
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > Who : You! Your fiends! Everybody! > What : BBQ Parties > Where: Miles Smith Farm, Loudon, NH > > What : NH Drupal Group party (with all others welcome) > Date : Saturday, August 25, 2012 > Time : 2:30 PM to 8:30 PM (or whenever everyone leaves

[GNHLUG] GNHLUG and Drupal BBQ parties: Sept 8 and Aug 25

2012-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
Who : You! Your fiends! Everybody! What : BBQ Parties Where: Miles Smith Farm, Loudon, NH What : NH Drupal Group party (with all others welcome) Date : Saturday, August 25, 2012 Time : 2:30 PM to 8:30 PM (or whenever everyone leaves) What : GNHLUG party (with all others welcome) Date : Saturda

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> When you say "nuke the connection attempt" do you mean >> [...] > >Nuke as in (continue to) deny the connection attempt. Cool. Hmmm, I did end up in a situation recently (and reluctantly) where I was obliged to install a Firefox add-in involved with use of MacroMedia's AdobeConnect (grrr! d

Re: [GNHLUG] What day should the GNHLUG BBQ be?

2012-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
Poll is closed. No matter how you count the votes, Sat 8 Sept 2012 is the clear winner. http://doodle.com/vqk7sb8evznp6x8y Sept 8 was also the least-liked date in the first poll. Go figure. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@m

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: > The *only* reason Facebook should be contacting you this way is if you > have an app set to pull data from there. Doesn't need to be an app. A simple web link to a home IP address, or name that resolves to same, will do it. Facebook will

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Chabot
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > When you say "nuke the connection attempt" do you mean > kill the process that's attempting to open the connection? > I can't, because it's an inbound connection and that process is > (apparently) somewhere inside Facebook. I only have c

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> It's *just* a home connection? No services? Nuke the connection >> attempt. > > If you're on a network with DHCP (most residential connections), > it's possible someone else wrote an app that points to a DNS > name that points to your IP address. Still safe to nuke it. When you say "nuke t

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 8/6/12 10:13 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Michael ODonnell > wrote: >> is there *ANY* >> legitimate reason why anything should be attempting to connect >> from Facebook to my home IP address, which offers no such >> services? I assume, of course, that the answer

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Chabot
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > is there *ANY* > legitimate reason why anything should be attempting to connect > from Facebook to my home IP address, which offers no such > services? I assume, of course, that the answer is "No". The *only* reason Facebook should be c

HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
This is the second time this week that my firewall has reported the following: [DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 69.171.227.60, port 443, Sunday, August 05,2012 20:25:40 The reported IP address is within a range owned by Facebook and DNS shows a hostname that (FWIW) is at least plausibly in