Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, December 15th What's New with BSD
When: December 15, 2004 7:00PM (6:30 for QA) Topic: What's New with BSD Moderator: Robert A. Getschmann Location: MIT Building E51 Room 315 *** Note room change from last month. Rob returns to the BLU to give us an update of what is happening in the BSD community. For those new to the Linux community, BSD is derived from the UNIX® operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
DNS Admin questions
Hooray, my latest project is to cleanup our DNS servers. They do okay and are fairly easy to manage, provided you do everything manually. I'm not a big DNS guru by any means. I know a lot of people have script/programs they use to manage DNS. I have two questions. First, what is your favorite automated DNS tool (we have 4 name servers, 3 linux with Bind and 1 Win2k DNS server). Second, does anybody know of any program that you can feed a list of domain names to and it will spit out the comany name the domain is register to? Automated of course. A lot of stuff was put in here or there into the named.conf file (no include, one HUGE file) so stuff is kind of spread out everywhere. Thanks ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Host file for browser?
All, I have several boxes kobbled together along with my web server living happily behind my firewall. In order to get windows (IE, NETSCAP et al) to see the sites served up on the web server I have to adjust the hosts file in /WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/ telling the specific local IP address for a specific site. Is there a similar way to tell Linux (RH9) to do the same? (galeon, mozilla et al). Thanks, Jason Kern KernBuilt.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DNS Admin questions
whois oddones.org |grep Registrant Name or whois oddones.org |grep Organization --DTVZ On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:38:48 -0500, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hooray, my latest project is to cleanup our DNS servers. They do okay and are fairly easy to manage, provided you do everything manually. I'm not a big DNS guru by any means. I know a lot of people have script/programs they use to manage DNS. I have two questions. First, what is your favorite automated DNS tool (we have 4 name servers, 3 linux with Bind and 1 Win2k DNS server). Second, does anybody know of any program that you can feed a list of domain names to and it will spit out the comany name the domain is register to? Automated of course. A lot of stuff was put in here or there into the named.conf file (no include, one HUGE file) so stuff is kind of spread out everywhere. Thanks ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Host file for browser?
/etc/hosts On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:49:29 -0500, jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have several boxes kobbled together along with my web server living happily behind my firewall. In order to get windows (IE, NETSCAP et al) to see the sites served up on the web server I have to adjust the hosts file in /WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/ telling the specific local IP address for a specific site. Is there a similar way to tell Linux (RH9) to do the same? (galeon, mozilla et al). Thanks, Jason Kern KernBuilt.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Host file for browser?
The naming scheme on NT based machines always amuses me: I'm pretty sure that /etc/ started out being a *nix thing, which MS then took up. Or they could have borrowed it from their own Unix project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Host file for browser?
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:49:29 -0500 jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have several boxes kobbled together along with my web server living happily behind my firewall. In order to get windows (IE, NETSCAP et al) to see the sites served up on the web server I have to adjust the hosts file in /WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/ telling the specific local IP address for a specific site. Is there a similar way to tell Linux (RH9) to do the same? (galeon, mozilla et al). Thanks, Jason Kern KernBuilt.com Hi, Jason - The other replies are correct (that the thing you want is the /etc/hosts file, and that it was etc on Unix before that other OS swiped it). To leave just a little more (hopefully useful) information in this mailing list, following are a hypothetical sample of the contents of an /etc/hosts file (including a fake top-level domain, as might be used for debugging/devoloping a Web site) and a clip from the material which man hosts displays. (The last paragraph probably describes your situation (and mine)). -Bill # Sample /etc/hosts 172.16.1.1 igor 172.16.1.2 drfrank 172.16.1.2 bdawson.com 172.16.1.7 laptop 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain # man hosts NAME hosts - The static table lookup for host names SYNOPSIS /etc/hosts DESCRIPTION This manual page describes the format of the /etc/hosts file. This file is a simple text file that associates IP addresses with hostnames, one line per IP address. For each host a single line should be present with the following information: IP_address canonical_hostname aliases Fields of the entry are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. Text from a # character until the end of the line is a comment, and is ignored. ... The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Server implements the Internet name server for UNIX systems. It replaces the /etc/hosts file or host name lookup, and frees a host from relying on /etc/hosts being up to date and complete. In modern systems, even though the host table has been superseded by DNS, it is still widely used for bootstrapping Most systems have a small host table containing the name and address information for important hosts on the local network. This is useful when DNS is not running, for example during sys- tem bootup. ... isolated nodes Very small sites that are isolated from the network use the host table instead of DNS. If the local information rarely changes, and the network is not connected to the internet, DNS offers little advantage. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments
And, for those looking to transfer mail between Outlook and real e-mail, a utility I've used is libpst. Homepage is at: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/ It's failed on a few .pst files, mainly ones that were bad in the first place. Otherwise, I've had good luck moving mail by exporting to .pst, then using libpst to convert to a directory of e-mails (mh format). Numerous options are available to make it output how you want (standard e-mail, mh directories, under the current directory, create a directory, etc). jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Host file for browser?
Hi Jason, Adding to Bill's good example, I usually develop on my local machine (liberty), having a local webserver on the same machine setup. This way I can test stuff locally without ever moving it to the 'production' server (brie), or before checking it in to CVS. Of course my real webserver (brie) on my internal network is provisioned with a static IP address of 192.168.1.100, making host entries straightforward. But, my local workstation and others use Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) to get a dynamic IP address from my Linksys router every time I reboot those machines. Thus, I do not know my own IP. Since the /etc/hosts file supports aliases for each IP address, and the local loopback IP is always 127.0.0.1, I can add multiple aliases to that address so that my local machine knows where to send requests to those local sites. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts (long lines may be wrapped) # syntax # IP_Address hostname alias(es) 127.0.0.1 localhost liberty.rundlett.com liberty liberty.freephile.com liberty.drstephaniehancox.com liberty.harbor-lights.com 192.168.1.100 brie.freephile.com # brie has a static IP # the following lines are commented b/c they will eventually fail using DHCP on liberty # 192.168.1.102 liberty.freephile.com # 192.168.1.102 liberty.drstephaniehancox.com # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments
Why go to all the bother of decoding the winmail.dat attachments? Lookout can be configured to send proper attachments. I've forgotten exactly what the steps are, because I haven't had to help anyone with it in about 4 years. Most folks are thankful for the help if you're polite about it. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Host file for browser?
An alternative to using host files, especially if you have many machines on your LAN you want to point to your LAN web server is to set up a name server on one of your Linux boxes. You can manage your name server by installing Webmin, which makes this almost painless. Then you have to configure all your other boxes to use that Linux server as the name server. At this point, you can set up forwarding on the name server to pass requests along to other name servers, and you can define domain names only your LAN will care about. My own set up has a Linux box acting both as the name server and as the DHCP server -- which is also managed by Webmin. I use the DHCP server to hard-associate IPs to MAC addresses, and use the name server to associate names to those IPs. Works like a champ, and eliminates the problems with keeping all those tedious host files everywhere in sync. If you are developing multiple websites like I am, there is an added benefit -- you can use wildcarding in the name server on you LAN to create secondary domains for the many different sites on the fly. For instance, I have *.jupiter defined so I can do xf.jupiter, fff.jupiter, csw.jupiter, etc. just by configuring apache for each test site. You cannot do wildcarding with host files. And of course, now that all boxes on my LAN use the name server, they all see the wildcarded sites, aiding in further testing. My approach will be overkill if you only have one or two machines on your lan and only one website you are testing. But it's fun nontheless. -- Fred -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- place [hey] in your subject. The mass of humans on planet Earth -- regard them as the ebbing seas in the winds of change. They ebb, they flow, they know not where to go. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
