[GNHLUG] No August 2012 SLUG meeting
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 Research Computing & Instrumentation ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@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: [GNHLUG] GNHLUG and Drupal BBQ parties: Sept 8 and Aug 25
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) fb event: http://www.facebook.com/events/456253231061567 (If fb sends https requests to your machine, douse in BBQ and consume the packets) Seth > > What : GNHLUG party (with all others welcome) > Date : Saturday, September 8, 2012 > Time : Afternoon/evening (exact time TBD) > > Bruce Dawson and Carole Soule have extra-generously offered to host > not one but *two* BBQ/parties. Further, the NH Drupal Group have > extended an invitation to GNHLUGers and other Unix and Free Software > fans in the area to join them at their party. > > Information on the Drupal event is available here: > > http://groups.drupal.org/node/243993 > > Please RSVP there, and coordinate any shared food you might want to > bring with the organizers. There was already a buy-in for some food, > so we want to avoid duplication there. > > Information on the GNHLUG event to follow Real Soon Now. > > -- Ben > ___ > gnhlug-announce mailing list > gnhlug-annou...@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/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] GNHLUG and Drupal BBQ parties: Sept 8 and Aug 25
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 : Saturday, September 8, 2012 Time : Afternoon/evening (exact time TBD) Bruce Dawson and Carole Soule have extra-generously offered to host not one but *two* BBQ/parties. Further, the NH Drupal Group have extended an invitation to GNHLUGers and other Unix and Free Software fans in the area to join them at their party. Information on the Drupal event is available here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/243993 Please RSVP there, and coordinate any shared food you might want to bring with the organizers. There was already a buy-in for some food, so we want to avoid duplication there. Information on the GNHLUG event to follow Real Soon Now. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@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: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?
>> 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! don't even get me started griping about *that* little bit of hell...) though the other party was not Facebook so it didn't occur to me that there might be a connection. But now that I think of it I might have read some war stories about debugging early versions of that add-in and IIRC somebody might have mentioned that opening up port 443 on their firewall was somehow a remedy for some problem, so maybe they're related...? I don't get the Facebook connection but then so many WWW sites these days have been rigged with XSS attacks^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "Like us on Facebook!" buttons that one never knows... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] What day should the GNHLUG BBQ be?
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@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?
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 try to retrieve the page title and content for thumbnail/preview purposes. https://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?
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 control > over the response at my end which, in my case, is nothing at all > since the port is blocked, with failed attempts logged as shown. Nuke as in (continue to) deny the connection attempt. Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?
>> 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 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 control over the response at my end which, in my case, is nothing at all since the port is blocked, with failed attempts logged as shown. An nmap scan of the machines behind my firewall currently shows nothing (legitimate or otherwise) listening on port 443, so I don't have any suspects to "nuke" at the moment here inside the walls. I was mostly just wondering if these connection attempts are examples of some intentional Facebook behavior, or whether I should instead bring it to their attention as evidence that one of their systems (or personnel) may have been compromised. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?
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 is "No". > The *only* reason Facebook should be contacting you this way is if you > have an app set to pull data from there. > > Possibilities that come to mind include RSS feeds and HTML embeds in > Page info plus, of course, any custom stuff you may have written. > > 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. -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?
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 contacting you this way is if you have an app set to pull data from there. Possibilities that come to mind include RSS feeds and HTML embeds in Page info plus, of course, any custom stuff you may have written. It's *just* a home connection? No services? Nuke the connection attempt. Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?
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 keeping with corporate naming schemes. I do have a Facebook account and may or may not have allowed a "session" to remain active overnight, though I'll claim that shouldn't matter as I ask the following: 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". ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
