Re: How to tell if Port is blocked...
Hi, Traceroute is not really the tool you are after. You need an external port scan done using another Internet connection or by a friend, or someone you can trust will not use the results for nefarious means. There are sites that will do simple scans for you .. but of course is up to you whether you trust them ;). The thing is, sites like grc.com won't tell you what they are scanning, so I was led to believe that my firewall/NAT box was locked down tight - but when I used nmap to scan my external interface, the result comes out as 'filtered'. I've been told that this is because my ISP (Blueyonder, in the UK) performs a barrier service, protecting me from scanners (apart from BY's own ;-). Whether a talented individual could get around this is a bit beyond me, but I don't doubt it. Any such services you 'trust'? Nmap!! Actually I get scanned several times a day by dopeheads looking for open-ports on my system. It is a fact of Internet life, it is not rocket science. True. Regards, Andrew *** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of The RTL Group or its associated companies. Please contact our IT Helpdesk on +44 (0)20 7691 6996 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you require further assistance. *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: mount problems
Are you in the mount directory (/cdrom, or /mnt) at the time? If so, just cd .. and it should be fine. HTH, Andrew *** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of The RTL Group or it's associated companies. Please contact our IT Helpdesk on +44 (0)20 7691 6996 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you require further assistance. *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
OFF TOPIC - please help!! (FAQ's by email needed)
Hi everybody, I am in need of help - I'm stuck at work (night shift, television tx in London) and I am hopelessly underprepared, with no access to the net other than email, and I've been surviving in the past by subscribing to all the FreeBSD mailing lists. But it occurred to me that I might be able to pull some FAQ's and other stuff from mit.edu or some other general repository of information. I thought there might be a way to do this by issuing majordomo-style commands to it's mailbot. I know this is horribly off-topic, but I thought you lot would understand my plight. (As an aside, I think this kind of service could help out a lot of people who have similarly draconian IT departments. In fact, it might be a simple project to do myselfit might involve learning sendmail) In case nobody knows of anything, please - I am desperately in need of information to get me through my night shift - maybe someone could reply personally, with a cut/paste of the text of the sh man page? Please save time by mailing flames to /dev/null ;-) Regards, Andrew *** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of The RTL Group or it's associated companies. Please contact our IT Helpdesk on +44 (0)20 7691 6996 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you require further assistance. *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)
Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this corruption takes place? Also, if anyone else was going to send me a man page, please see Dan Nelson's recent post (reproduced below) - and thanks for being considerate! I hope all this doesn't result in ftpmail servers getting stressedplease exercise caution, or we will all lose this amazing service!! Regards, Andrew In the last episode (Nov 26), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi everybody, I am in need of help - I'm stuck at work (night shift, television tx in London) and I am hopelessly underprepared, with no access to the net other than email, and I've been surviving in the past by subscribing to all the FreeBSD mailing lists. But it occurred to me that I might be able to pull some FAQ's and other stuff from mit.edu or some other general repository of information. I thought there might be a way to do this Try this. Send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter only this line in the BODY of the message: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email That document will show you how to FTP, read Usenet news, browse the web, access IMDB, and yes, download FAQs :) via email. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This email is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of The RTL Group or it's associated companies. Please contact our IT Helpdesk on +44 (0)20 7691 6996 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you require further assistance. *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
