Re: peertech.org - localhost ?
On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:49 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: http://www.peertech.org/ ...I was presented with the default page from the WWW server on my own machine. WTF? But then I notice that the DNS is in fact resolving that address to 127.0.0.1 which, at least in my experience, seems weird. Is this in fact some sort of normal situation, like maybe that's the standard way a dormant domain gets parked ? Well, it's odd, but the manager of that domain can set whatever IPs he wants to do for these things. It's definitely not parked. Here's the output of a zone transfer below which shows that the owner set peertech.org and www.peertech.org to resolve to localhost, while he setup MX records, and domains for vpn and home. Perhaps he has just a sense of humor? -N [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig @ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org AXFR ; DiG 9.2.4 @ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org AXFR ;; global options: printcmd peertech.org. 7200IN SOA ns8.zoneedit.com. soacontact.zoneedit.com. 1123553593 14400 7200 950400 7200 peertech.org. 7200IN NS ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org. 7200IN NS ns17.zoneedit.com. peertech.org. 7200IN A 127.0.0.1 peertech.org. 7200IN MX 0 mail5.zoneedit.com. peertech.org. 7200IN MX 0 mail4.zoneedit.com. vpn.peertech.org. 7200IN A 207.162.210.21 www.peertech.org. 7200IN A 127.0.0.1 home.peertech.org. 7200IN A 71.111.75.192 peertech.org. 7200IN SOA ns8.zoneedit.com. soacontact.zoneedit.com. 1123553593 14400 7200 950400 7200 ;; Query time: 179 msec ;; SERVER: 206.55.124.4#53(ns8.zoneedit.com.) ;; WHEN: Fri Mar 3 07:38:07 2006 ;; XFR size: 10 records That certainly ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: peertech.org - localhost ?
On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:49 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: http://www.peertech.org/ ...I was presented with the default page from the WWW server on my own machine. WTF? But then I notice that the DNS is in fact resolving that address to 127.0.0.1 which, at least in my experience, seems weird. Is this in fact some sort of normal situation, like maybe that's the standard way a dormant domain gets parked ? I've seen this a lot more then I would have thought. Mostly people do it for like localhost.domain.com, not for www :) We have quite a few customers that have at least one item pointed to 127.0.0.1. Well, it's odd, but the manager of that domain can set whatever IPs he wants to do for these things. It's definitely not parked. Here's the output of a zone transfer below which shows that the owner set peertech.org and www.peertech.org to resolve to localhost, while he setup MX records, and domains for vpn and home. Perhaps he has just a sense of humor? -N [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig @ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org AXFR ; DiG 9.2.4 @ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org AXFR ;; global options: printcmd peertech.org. 7200IN SOA ns8.zoneedit.com. soacontact.zoneedit.com. 1123553593 14400 7200 950400 7200 peertech.org. 7200IN NS ns8.zoneedit.com. peertech.org. 7200IN NS ns17.zoneedit.com. peertech.org. 7200IN A 127.0.0.1 peertech.org. 7200IN MX 0 mail5.zoneedit.com. peertech.org. 7200IN MX 0 mail4.zoneedit.com. vpn.peertech.org. 7200IN A 207.162.210.21 www.peertech.org. 7200IN A 127.0.0.1 home.peertech.org. 7200IN A 71.111.75.192 peertech.org. 7200IN SOA ns8.zoneedit.com. soacontact.zoneedit.com. 1123553593 14400 7200 950400 7200 ;; Query time: 179 msec ;; SERVER: 206.55.124.4#53(ns8.zoneedit.com.) ;; WHEN: Fri Mar 3 07:38:07 2006 ;; XFR size: 10 records That certainly ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: peertech.org - localhost ?
I've often pointed e.g. devel.oddones.org at a private address space IP like 192.168.2.22 while I'm mucking about with new development, and then later updated it to point to a real live server... I love the flexibility of DNS. :-) --DTVZ On 3/3/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:49 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: http://www.peertech.org/ ...I was presented with the default page from the WWW server on my own machine. WTF? But then I notice that the DNS is in fact resolving that address to 127.0.0.1 which, at least in my experience, seems weird. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
CentraLUG Meeting, March 6, Steve Amsden, Linux Terminal Services
Presentation March 6, 2006 Monday, 7pm at NHTI The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, occurs on the first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Institute Campus starting at 7 PM. This month, we'll be meeting in Room 146 of the Library/Learning Center/Bookstore, http://www.nhti.net/nhtimap.pdf , marked as I on that map. Directions and maps are available on the NHTI site at http://www.nhti.edu. Open to the public. Free admission. Tell your friends. This month's meeting will feature Steve Amsden, Network Administrator for the Merrimack Valley School District, showing off LTSP, http:// www.ltsp.org/, the Linux Terminal Server Project. From Steve: LTSP is an add-on package for Linux that allows you to connect lots of low-powered thin client terminals to a Linux server. Applications typically run on the server, and accept input and display their output on the thin client display. The power and flexibility of this platform have far reaching implications, particularly for K12 school districts who have been educated and brave enough to seek other solutions than the cost of systems and applications software. But more specifically, being locked into a treadmill of constant upgrades, licensing problems, and unsupportable client-server nework environments that have been the Achille's heel of technology education. Merrimack Valley School District has five LTSP server environments in various states of implementation, and uses e-Smith Linux server for gateway, DHCP, content filtering, firewall, and Windows 2000 emulation using SAMBA. Exeter School District, as well as Salem, are too using combinations of e-Smith and LTSP. Though LTSP has made in-roads into the schools, it will be some time before the full impact is realized, and others convinced that there is a better way than the Microsoft Way. 1) Opening Remarks/Overview of Presentation 2) Begin LTSP Demo Server Installation 3) Login to LTSP Terminals 4) Overview of User Desktop Options and Applications 5) Eval the Role of dhcpd.conf lts.conf in Configuring LTSP 6) Test Terminal Access to Demo Server 7) Review LTSP-to-Windows Terminal Server Connectivity 8) Closing Remarks, Q A, Handouts (CD copies of LTSP 4.2 and e- Smith 6.01-1 will be available) Should be an awesome presentation! Tell your friends! Tell your schools! (Steve had indicated if this presentation goes well, he'd be open to consider a NH-wide Quarterly meeting or similar venue.) More details at about the group are available at http:// www.centralug.org and http://www.gnhlug.org. Hope to see you there! ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: CentraLUG Meeting, March 6, Steve Amsden, Linux Terminal Services
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Roche wrote: | ... | | This month's meeting will feature Steve Amsden, Network | Administrator for the Merrimack Valley School District, showing | off LTSP, http:// www.ltsp.org/, the Linux Terminal Server Project. | From Steve: ... Grumble. I have to pick up Carole in Boston Monday night, so I can't make it. However, if you need the projector, let me know and I'll drop it off on my way to Boston. - --Bruce -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFECGT9/TBScWXa5IgRAh0aAKCBwiqTYeyjDBumIpRNbFtjPIC+mwCgwhiw JnS0u5ooQEDOfwhjEdkVFa8= =z4OY -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Asset Management
There are tons of FOSS projects that do asset management and they have many of the features you seek. Note the common vein in the urls. =) Not to be rude, but I can search too. The results of a search aren't always all that useful though (see below). http://sourceforge.net/projects/asset-tracker Has potential - I'll play with it. http://simpleassets.sourceforge.net/ Very inflexible, limited selection of attributes and really more intended as a responsibility system it appears, keeping track of who owns different assets. http://helpcore.sourceforge.net/ Website is a link to a site that doesn't work. http://ascent.sourceforge.net/ Abandonware that didn't get too far. https://sourceforge.net/projects/enetman/ Bad website - will have to download a play to see what features it has. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nexb Doesn't actually do asset management, but is a module of an asset management project they have planned. http://assetmanagement.sourceforge.net/ Development Status : 1 - Planning http://sourceforge.net/projects/irm/ Decent project, except it doesn't have any ability to change the attributes you can store. This is actually a pretty decent looking package for request tracking, task management, etc. I'm just apparently in a minority looking for an asset manager that *only* does asset management, and doesn't compromise that for a bunch of other functionality that I'd prefer to stick with Nagios and Request Tracker. Any integration between them, I'd rather just do with cross-links and I'd be perfectly satisfied with that. -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: asset management tools?
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:02 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: IRM (domain specific): http://sourceforge.net/projects/irm I looked at that too, but it wasn't very flexible in the storage of attributes. It's really more as Paul described in his other reply and I really only want an inventory program. These inventory/ticketing/todo/monitoring packages are neat and I'd be happy to only use the inventory aspects of them if they didn't feel so limited and compromised for the rest of the functionality. CRM-CTT (more general): http://crm-ctt.sourceforge.net/ This seems to be about the same as IRM. More of a ticket management system with an emphasis on assets... I think. Browsing around their demo, it kept changing languages on me. If you find a clear winner please report back - I see this wheel reinvented repeatedly. If I do, I will. I'm starting to wonder if I'll just go and reinvent the wheel again though... I know that anything I code along those lines won't be very flexible though as I tend to program things like this very self-centered. Rather than abstract everything from everything so that it can work for everyone, I tend to be the type to consolidate all the functionality I need to a very specific bash script or something. ;-) -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: asset management tools?
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 08:53 am, Paul Lussier wrote: It started out as a means to track hard drive temperature over time. But since we needed to have all systems and all drives in all systems in the database, we decided to make it a general asset management system. From there we decided to add tables to manage users. From the database, once we get the scripts written, we're planning on generating: - /etc/netgroup - /etc/sudoers - /etc/ssh/ssh_host_keys - DNS zone files - LDIF for an LDAP server - ~special user/.ssh/authorized_keys(2) - a (dynamic) web based phone/pager contact list Have you ever looked into cfengine for these kinds of tasks? I've heard that it's very flexible for this sort of detailed remote management, but that it can be a bit of a pain to get setup. For that matter, has anyone here used cfengine before? I've been considering trying to play with it on my own and seeing how it can make our production environment a little happier. I'd love to see the list of things you care about. Feel free to mail me privately if you don't want to discuss this on list. Well, due to some rather bad development practices here, it's important to know the date that a particular installation of our software was built on, because development doesn't really have branches or tags in CVS or milestone releases or anything. Instead, whatever is committed into CVS when the installation tarball is built is what gets installed. I know it makes no sense and I'd love to change it (as would the developers for that matter), but management seems to think it's not worth the investment of time to learn how to do things right. Other than that, specific hardware peripherals, firmware revisions, ram types and sizes, slots for more, hard disks, brand/model/submodel, OS and version, role within our production infrastructure, peers in terms of clustering, wishlist if it's approaching a limit of its hardware, date of purchase, number of Us... That's what I come up with off the top of my head and most of that can be kept track of so long as I can customize the attributes it stores. -Neil ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: asset management tools?
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 08:45 am, Bair,Paul A. wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:54 -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: I'm looking to replace a spreadsheet listing all our servers with a web-based asset management tool. I'm wondering what experience all of you may have with the available tools out there. Essentially, I want to be able to list servers and specify arbitrary attributes for those servers as we have a number of inventory attributes we keep track of that are rather specific to our use and I'm sure won't be in any preselected group of attributes. This might not be what you're looking for, but this is how I keep track of alive systems. I run WebJob I'm looking for more of a simple solution - I really just want something that does asset management well and can let me keep track of changes with dated notes, and stuff. It can be very manual - it just needs to be flexible. -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Reminder - Tomorrow: DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - March 2nd
For those of you who requested, here's copy of my powerpoint from last night's meeting http://www.parkerhill.com/Xaraya-DLSLUG.ppt Jonathan - Original Message - From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:25 AM Subject: Reminder - Tomorrow: DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - March 2nd [ we have schwag from LinuxWorld Expo and Sybase for this meeting's raffle ] [ don't forget to RSVP ] -Bill *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux Users Group http://www.dlslug.org/ *** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, March 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson Hall Room L01 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Xaraya Xaraya is an extensible, Open Source web application framework written in PHP and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Xaraya delivers the requisite infrastructure and tools to create custom web applications that include fully dynamic multi-platform Content Mangement Solutions (CMS). Xaraya's modular, database independent architecture introduces tools that separate form, function, content, and design with on-the-fly extensions allowing greater control and versatility. Jonathan will present an overview of Xaraya, its architecture, core modules, and extension modules, including a brief demonstration how to get started developing web sites using the Xaraya platform. Examples will be used from current live web sites. Jonathan is principal of Parkerhill Technology Group, a strategic management and web development firm, and has over 25 years of entrepreneurial and technical experience ranging from small start-ups to multinational corporations. He holds a Masters degree in Media Technology from MIT, and serves on several boards including the Software Assocation of NH (SwANH), Amoskaeg Business Incubator in Manchester NH, MIT Enterprise Forum of NH, and North Country Council CEDS (economic development strategy). Jonathan lives in northern Grafton County on a retired dairy farm with his wife and 4 young children. 8:30 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux question. Please see the website for links to directions. If any area companies are interested in sponsoring refreshments, please let me know. Please RSVP so we can give a theoretical refreshment sponsor a headcount. - MAILING LISTS There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
LinuxWorld Early Bird Discounts Extended to 10 March
Bill mentioned at last night's meeting that the LinuxWorld Expo discounts were expiring soon, so I went to register today. Looks like the top-tier discount expires on 10 March, an extension from their earlier deadline. Get your registrations in now! If you are thinking of volunteering to staff the booth (and you're ALL thinking of that, right?). make sure to get an Expo pass in advance so that you don't have to pay to get in. Expo passes at the door are $50, but free if you register in advance. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Monadnock Linux User Group - March 9th
The next meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be Thursday, March 9th, 7:00pm, at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office behind South Meadow School in Peterborough. AGENDA 1. Announcements. 2. SSH Operations and Techniques - Bill Stearns SSH is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move files from one machine to another. It provides strong authentication and secure communications over insecure channels. It is a replacement for rlogin, rsh, rcp, and rdist. It protects a network from attacks such as IP spoofing, IP source routing, and DNS spoofing. * Directions: The SAU 1 Superintendant of Schools office is directly behind the South Meadow School. From downtown Peterborough, travel north on route 202 approximately 2 1/2 miles. Look for a white sign on the left SAU 1 Superintendant of Schools Office. The entrance is on the left, just before South Meadow school, and across the street from Sims Press. Follow the drive up towards dumpsters where there is ample parking. Come down the stairs to the set of doors on your right. Enter thru double set of doors and turn left...straight into the board room. Or check the link to Google maps to see our location: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/OurChapters#monadlug We're also looking for topics for future meetings. If you have a suggestion or would like to present a topic yourself, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this announcement to anyone you think may be interested in attending. Thank you, Guy Pardoe MonadLUG Coordinator * ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Deadline for LinuxWorld Badges Mailed is 3 march
Ah. In the confirmation I got today when registering. Exhibit Only Registrants . U.S. attendees who register on or before March 3, 2006 will be mailed their badge cards in February. Simply bring your badge to any Badge Holder Pick-Up area, located in the main lobby of the Boston Convention Exhibition Center, to receive your badge holder. All exhibit hall attendees who register AFTER March 3, 2006, as well as all exhibit hall registrants residing outside of the U.S., will NOT receive their badges and badge holders in the mail. Simply proceed, with your confirmation, to the Exhibit Hall Registration area located in the main lobby of the Boston Convention Exhibition Center. Please note that identification is required to receive your badge and badge holder. Proper identification (driver`s license, credit card) may be required to receive your registration materials. Business cards will not be accepted as appropriate identification. FYI. Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com On Mar 3, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Ted Roche wrote: Bill mentioned at last night's meeting that the LinuxWorld Expo discounts were expiring soon, so I went to register today. Looks like the top-tier discount expires on 10 March, an extension from their earlier deadline. Get your registrations in now! If you are thinking of volunteering to staff the booth (and you're ALL thinking of that, right?). make sure to get an Expo pass in advance so that you don't have to pay to get in. Expo passes at the door are $50, but free if you register in advance. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
OT: Forum legalish question
Some of you on the list know about this, for those that don't here's a quick lowdown. I live in the Emerald Lake Village District in Hillsborough, NH. We have our own seperate board of commissioners. One of them is a real a-hole. The unofficial webiste (www.emeraldlake.org) had a forum. The admin of the site would edit and delete posts to help the commissioners. I didn't like this so I started my own forum on www.elvd.org. Well, I was using the uncopywritten logo on my site. After some back and fourth with legal threats and such I decided to take it down and replace it with a picture of a sign in the district (with the same logo on it). After some back and fourth about that (it actually got them more mad, as I thought. Probably because there was less they could do about it). I removed it and replaced it with the current logo (inspired by the russian flag). I also put up a pic of Joseph Stalin, I found it fitting since the commissioner in question is named Joe. I just found out that at tonights meeting (that I didn't attend because I didn't want to be a target, but my wife attended), I found out that he managed to get the other board members to approve a retainer to the district lawyer to sue me and other board members for slander and libel. I was just looking for opinion. I haven't gotten anything official from him or his laywer yet. He's never even asked for any posts to be removed or edited. Thanks.. PS, the unoffical site admin said he has permissions to use the logo from a previous board. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
[OT] editor learning curves
Let's remember to reference these graphics the next time we're debating which editor is best:;- http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/curves.jpg ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
