Re: systemd and search domains.

[Ed Robbins]

On 1/8/20 6:26 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:

On 2020-01-08 17:58, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:

Nutshell: clearly, it's time for
a self-written inotify daemon and call it a day.
Because it's stupid easy to prepend a line with my domain name every
time the file changes,
whereas I'm gettin' old trying to figure this out through a more
elegant mechanism.

Ha! An inotify monitor actually seems like a pretty elegant solution to
me!
(though maybe I should point out that I got some of my aesthetic sense
  from growing up watching The Red Green Show...).

I done did it.  (Yeah, I use Ruby for my CLI stuffs; it's pretty much
replaced Perl as my go-to for any systemy stuff.  But this time, I
decided not to make it a Ruby script and just threw in a -pie one-liner
like the olden Perl days.  It's not particularly pretty, but hey...)


There are some things in Linux that I absolutely gush over because of 
how handy they are, inotify is just such a creature.  I use it in some 
of the most unlikely places to solve some of my most baffling problems.



Ed

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Re: Talk topics

[Ed Robbins]

Curt Howland  wrote:


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:33 PM, kenta  wrote:
> Personally I'd be interested in SIP as I have little to no exposure to
> it and following closesly is encrypted removal media, as this is
> something I should probably be doing... but I don't :)

I'm already throwing together a rubber-meets-the-road SIP
presentation, so long as no one expects it to be "developer's
conference" quality. :^)

I'd also be happy to do a presentation on SIP. As I write this I'm on my way 
home from SIPNOC.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:18 PM, mad...@li.org  wrote:
> Setting up a Firewall (IPCop?)

I've done iptables by hand, I'd be very interested in seeing one of
the front-ends and how they work.

> Hints and kinks for managing passwords (perhaps in conjunction with GPG/PGP)

That would make an excellent double-header.

> Shell scripting for beginners and old farts

I could use to learn a bunch on that subject.

Curt-
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Re: Looking for Acme Packet employee (nothing to do w/Oracle!)

[Ed Robbins]

Michael,

While not an ACME employee, I'm very familiar with the company and have several 
good friends who work there. If no one answers your call, I may be able to put 
you in touch with someone.

Ed



On Feb 12, 2013, at 10:10 AM, "Michael ODonnell"  
wrote:

> 
> 
> I got no responses to my previous request, which I now realize
> (in light of their impending acquisition by Oracle) might have
> had something to do with my use of the term "insider".
> 
> This is nothing to do with that; just an employment-related
> inquiry about corporate culture, work environment, etc,
> ideally from somebody familiar with their platform dev team.
> 
> Anybody?(possible referral bounty...)
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Re: replicated file system?

[Ed Robbins]

On 2/28/12 4:11 PM, Mark Komarinski wrote:

Sorry for top posting (I'm mobile).

OCFS2 and GFS allow for active/active DRBD.  I tried using each and 
they wound up requiring more knowledge of crm and pacemaker than I was 
ready for.  I had each working on two different systems but it was 
unreliable - if you knew more about pacemaker you might fare better.


-Mark

- Reply message -
From: "Kenny Lussier" 
To: "GNHLUG" 
Subject: replicated file system?
Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 2:44 pm


Hi All,

I am looking for new ideas on how to replicate file systems. I have a 
need for redundant ftp servers, which could either be active/standby 
or active/active, as there is a load balancer in front of them. 
Currently, we periodically rsync the directory over to the standby 
system. What I would like to do is have a 
mirrored/replicated/clustered file system so that both systems can be 
active at the same time, and the data is automagically available on 
either, even in the event that one server fails. The catch is that 
there is no back-end shared storage (no SAN, NFS, etc.). I thought 
about drbd, but that is active/backup only. Most other systems 
required shared storage. I'm looking at using incron/inotify or 
Unison, but I was curious to see how other people would creatively 
solve this problem. Ideas?



TIA,
Kenny



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I've been using DRBD for in active/passive for the past two years with 
Pacemaker.  I can't see enough good things about it.  Simple to setup 
and maintain, what little maintenance is required.  I'm about to build a 
fairly large voicemail storage system utilizing DRBD in active/active 
using GFS as the filesystem.  While pacemaker(crm) was a bit tricky at 
first, once I got past the initial learning curve it was very easy to 
configure and manage.


Ed
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Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

[Ed Robbins]

On 01/26/2011 05:33 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> Just keep in mind Comcast's 250 GB cap, which we ran up against in
> November. Nearly got shut down until we bought another internet-only
> line (and modem) and divided our traffic between the two. Unfortunately,
> even with a 2nd line we still don't have enough bandwidth to do
> everything we want.
>
> How much bandwidth does Netflix/Hulu/... consume? Just to get useful
> data, how much is, say, a typical Mythbuster's show and a 90 minute movie?
>
> --Bruce
>
We started bumping into this over the Christmas break.  We streamed 
Netflix everyday, all day long and I was surprised to see how much 
bandwidth we where chewing through.  The kicker was the snow days that 
lasted into the beginning of January, in one week we used up 30% of the 
250gb cap.  Knowing that I want to get rid of cable TV and seeing the 
writing on the wall, I switched over to Comcast business class, which 
doesn't have a bandwidth limit.

I was fortunate enough to get my work to pick up the tab for that since 
I work out of my house.  I would have preferred to have gone with fiber 
but when Granite State Telephone came out to the house they were talking 
about trenching through my driveway and my neighbors driveway, plus it 
would be some unknown time in the future.

Ed
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Power cables

[Ed Robbins]

Does anyone know where I could pick up C13 to C14 power cables locally?

Ed
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Re: Openfire Jabber server

[Ed Robbins]

Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> Hey Paul,
>
>   
>> Is anyone here using the Openfire Jabber server with large numbers of
>> users?
>> 
>
> Nope.  There are only about 8 of us, but..
>
>   
>> However, we are finding that it needs to be whacked fairly frequently.
>> We've seen Java OOM errors, etc.
>> 
>
> We started getting these a few weeks ago, and it coincided with one person
> (me!) updating their workstation to Fedora 12 and using its default jabber
> client, Empathy.
>
> It seems there is a memory leak in Openfire when used with Empathy clients:
>
> http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/199324
>
>   
I'm very interested in hearing updates regarding this issue.  I'm 
working on a design that will utilize Openfire for presence in a 
telephony environment. 

 From a Java perspective, have you utilized any of the JMX tools to 
connect to it while it's running to view it's vitals?  You can also 
force it to dump it's heap and then analyze it to see what's using all 
of the memory, that may be helpful in determining what the culprit is.

Ed
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Re: SIP Registration

[Ed Robbins]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just signed up with a US48 SIP provider which claims to be
> Asterisk-friendly.  However, I had a bit of trouble getting their
> service to work with Asterisk.  I am using them for outbound calling
> to the PSTN *only*, not for receiving calls from the PSTN.  The
> problem I had was this: whenever I tried to place a call, their SIP
> proxy reported an authentication error:
>
> WARNING[19327]: chan_sip.c:9865 handle_response_invite: Forbidden - wrong 
> password on authentication for INVITE to '"asterisk"  PROTECTED]>;tag=as2e537c98'
>
> As it turns out, having a "register =>" line in sip.conf is all that
> was needed to fix the problem:
>
> register => <<>>:<<>@<<>>/<<>>
>
> I'm confused why a "register" line would be necessary for
> outbound-only service.  According to everything I've read, SIP
> registration is used to tell a SIP proxy the IP address of an endpoint
> with a dynamic IP address so that calls can be routed *to* it.  Yes,
> registration requests do have to be authenticated, but is SIP
> registration properly used as an authentication technique?  Or is this
> company essentially abusing the SIP registration mechanism?
>
>   
No, there not abusing it.  This is standard procedure for just about all 
carriers. 
> Interestingly, the provider seems to require *both* registration and
> per-call digest authentication.  Missing either one, the outbound call
> will fail to authenticate.  This seems a bit bizarre to me.
>
>   
When you say per call authentication, I'm assuming your talking about 
getting a 407 Proxy Authentication required, at which point the digest 
information is passed back.  Again, this is standard.
> Here's the response I got from their technical support about this:
>
>   
>> Dear Sir,
>>  I thought I saw a registration string in your config earlier,
>> otherwise I would've suggested it at the beginning. 
>>  Registration can be used for inbound or outbound service. We have
>> customers that use both and some that use neither. All TalkinIP customers
>> are constantly re-registering to verify the server and account information.
>> 
>
> Does anyone on this list know if this is how SIP registration is
> supposed to be used?  Is this common practice?
>
>   
Again this is standard practice.  I don't recall anything in the RFC 
that specifically denotes the registration process as only dealing with 
dynamic addresses.  In the larger scheme of things registrations are 
used for much more then that. 
> After about a week of chatting with the company's tech support, I have
> finially gotten outbound calling working with Asterisk.  Now, I'd just
> like to know WHY it works...
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Ubuntu/Debian package question

[Ed Robbins]

I'm new to Ubuntu and haven't had a chance to dig into the Debian 
package system in detail.  I've got a system configured exactly the way 
I want it and now want to configure a second system with the same 
packages.  Is there a way to dump out a package list on the one machine 
and import it on the other?

Ed
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Re: Editing video to remove commercials (was: Why we can't record...)

[Ed Robbins]

Tom Buskey wrote:


On 3/26/07, *Ben Scott* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


On 3/26/07, Bob King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>   Why not just do a one-time batch tivodecode of the .tivo files to
>> .mpeg files?  That's what I did.
>
> Anyone recommend a good mpeg editor once you have them converted
so I can
> take out the $#^%# commercials?

  I don't have any experience with this myself (yet), but I am told
MythTV can do post-processing on recordings to automatically mark
commercials, and skip them during playback.  So if you can get those
recordings into MythTV, you should be in good shape.


Hmmm..   Anyone know if this will work on existing mpeg files?  
Without the rest of MythTV?


Check out avidemux.  You can have it scan the mpeg file for black frames 
(commercials), then edit them out.  I currently do it by hand but it's 
supposed to be highly scriptable.  One suggestion...  If you edit by 
hand, start from the end and work your way forward, otherwise the frame 
numbers it determines for black will not align correctly.


Ed
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Re: Streaming media

[Ed Robbins]

Check out gnump3d.  After going through the same iteration that you are 
going through, I found it to be exactly what I needed/wanted and it took 
literally two minutes to get up and running.


Ed

Travis Roy wrote:

Okay, this should be easier, I think I'm doing something wrong.

I'm trying to setup an internal streaming music server in our office.

I want it to take the MP3s from the server and then users can connect to 
that server via XMMS/WinAmp/iTunes and listen to tunes.


I would like to have different types of music for different streams.

I've setup icecast, but it requires something to send music to it, and I 
haven't found anything that "just works" from a command prompt to do this.

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Re: IPTables question

[Ed Robbins]

Where is the UAS running that the client is communicating too? 

The re-INVITE should have the same call-id, branch and to tag, so I'm 
thinking the UAS will pick up the IP change which is ultimately what you 
want.


Ed

Bill McGonigle wrote:


On Dec 15, 2005, at 18:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 When the IP address on the client changes, it sends a reinvite to 
the NAT box to tell it what the new IP address is.



I don't know SIP beyond a magazine article, but at a higher level it 
sounds like you need something like a mod_conntrack_sip that would 
know how to parse the SIP reinvite and tweak the proper kernel entries 
accordingly.


Or you might be able to find a module that can track the DHCP 
conversations similarly.  That being older it's more likely to exist 
and would be protocol-generic, so probably better.


Either way, it sounds like you probably need a kernel module that 
understands that kind of traffic and can adjust the NAT tables.


-Bill
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Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

[Ed Robbins]

Check out www.talkaboutvoip.com  within the forum there's an area to 
discuss the different providers.


I use www.usadatanet.com and it works well with Comcast cable and an 
asterisk server on my end.  Since I work for the company that provides 
their voip software I get instantaneous trouble shooting.  Well as 
instantaneous as I can get to a computer to work on it :-)


Ed



Jeff Kinz wrote:
Hi all, 


We're getting ready to switch to VOIP over Comcast cable.

We are currently looking at packet8 as a VOIP provider and I was
wondering if anyone had any recommendations for providers?

Also has anyone had problems using VOIP over Comcast cable?  (there are
some posts on the web that suggest that Comcast may be blocking or
at least interfering with non-Comcast-over-IP telephony services.)

TIA. Jeff.




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Looking for a Commodore 64

[Ed Robbins]

I figured the way people on this list collect junk^H^H^H^H stuff, myself 
included, it would be a good source to go to.


I have a friend in need of a working Commodore 64 for use with a 
Computrainer system.  If anyone has one lurking in their basement or 
knows of one please contact me.


Thanks.

Ed
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Re: Asterisk for POTS users

[Ed Robbins]

Mark Komarinski wrote:



 

In a nutshell I use Asterisk to terminate all of my calls.  Both IP and 
PSTN(POTS) terminated calls, as well as originating IP and at times, 
PSTN calls.
I have several ATA's/IP phones scattered throughout the house and use 
Asterisk as a full blown PBX, including DNIS and ANI call routing and 
yes it can be viewed as a simple answering machine as well.
   



How do you route calls to/from PSTN?  Some hardware card I imagine?

 

I generally don't do PSTN calls but I do have two Digium X100P cards 
that I can use.  I got into the VoiP business about 8 months ago and 
specifically work in a broadband telephony solution, think of a Vonage 
type of service, so all of my calls now are IP based.  I still have a 
PSTN line, but now when someone calls it, my Asterisk box picks up the 
line, announces that we have a new number, tells the caller to call back 
on that number and then hangs up the line.  The only reason I have the 
PSTN line is to test calling scenarios when I'm working on calling 
applications, thus I can test IP -> PSTN and PSTN -> IP.


I have Broadband VoiP service through a company called USA Datanet out 
of Syracuse, NY and the only reason for that is because they use our 
software and I have full access to all of the servers, thus if a problem 
arises I can hop right in and check it out.  To them I'm just another 
device in their system, but in reality that device is my Asterisk box.  
Once they deliver the call to me, I can do whatever I want with it, 
including sending it back out via USA datanet or PSTN to another phone, 
play customized messages depending on the ANI, route it to specific 
voicemail boxes, route it to specific extensions in my house, etc


All in all, it's geek telephony Nirvana :-)

Ed


-Mark
 



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Re: Asterisk for POTS users

[Ed Robbins]

Mark Komarinski wrote:


I just dropped a wad ($100) of cash on a new phone with an "integrated
answering device".  I see that more and more people are using Asterisk to set
up a PBX, but is anyone using this as a way of acting as an answering
machine?

 

Yes I am and while you bring up the subject, I'd be willing to do a talk 
at a meeting on how I use Asterisk.




(insert rant here about when I pick up the phone, I darn well expect to
hear a dialtone and Comcast will never have the reliability as Verizon).

(insert second rant about FBO, FXO, SIP, and no "Asterisk for non-telco
employees" documentation)

-Mark
 

In a nutshell I use Asterisk to terminate all of my calls.  Both IP and 
PSTN(POTS) terminated calls, as well as originating IP and at times, 
PSTN calls.
I have several ATA's/IP phones scattered throughout the house and use 
Asterisk as a full blown PBX, including DNIS and ANI call routing and 
yes it can be viewed as a simple answering machine as well.


Ed

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Re: Asterisk question

[Ed Robbins]

Travis Roy wrote:

Travis Roy wrote:

Send the sip entry that has the 200 defined in it?  Also, double 
check X-lite, I've run into many issues with X-lite in the past, 
specifically with username/password entry.



Hmmm. I plugged your sip settings into my asterisk box, fired up 
xlite and it registered without a problem.  Just for the fun of it, 
point your xlite @ registrar.erobbins.com and see if it registers.



Just tried it, same result. Odd, but I didn't see your registration in my log.



Tells me it's probably in your X-lite setup up.  I'm always finding 
problems with this when our sales guys try to set it up.


Ed




I'll watch it from my end.

Ed
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Re: Asterisk question

[Ed Robbins]

Travis Roy wrote:
Send the sip entry that has the 200 defined in it?  Also, double 
check X-lite, I've run into many issues with X-lite in the past, 
specifically with username/password entry.





Hmmm. I plugged your sip settings into my asterisk box, fired up 
xlite and it registered without a problem.  Just for the fun of it, 
point your xlite @ registrar.erobbins.com and see if it registers.


I'll watch it from my end.

Ed
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Re: Asterisk question

[Ed Robbins]

Send the sip entry that has the 200 defined in it?  Also, double check 
X-lite, I've run into many issues with X-lite in the past, specifically 
with username/password entry.


Do you have KT&T on a linux box you can fire up?

Ed



Travis Roy wrote:

You need to configure your asterisk system to accept a registration
request from the softphone, and you need to configure the softphone 
to register to the asterisk box.



Yes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] does use amp, and I did setup the extension. Still no 
dice.
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe uses AMP. You need to configure an extension 
in AMP (they use the extension as the username). In your softphone 
you need to put the extension in as the authname or username 
(whatever the softphone calls it) and the secret that you set on the 
server. You should also be able to do it directly in the 
/etc/asterisk/sip.conf file directly by doing something like:


[200]
type=friend
username=200
secret=somesecret
context=whatever context you want to put the extension in
callerid = Your Name Here <200>
host=dynamic
mailbox=200

FYI,
Kenny

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:35 -0400, Travis Roy wrote:


So I found [EMAIL PROTECTED] while doing some looking into VoIP stuff.

I set it up (very easy) but I'm having a problem.

I load up a softphone on my desktop and try to connect and I get this error:

Jul 14 12:41:10 NOTICE[1579]: Registration from 'Travis Roy
' failed for '69.84.130.55'

200 is my extension.
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Re: Asterisk question

[Ed Robbins]

what does your sip.conf look like?

Go into asterisk - asterisk -r

At the command prompt enter:
set debug 4
set verbose 4

Watch the REGISTER come in, cut and paste and send to me.

Ed

Travis Roy wrote:

So I found [EMAIL PROTECTED] while doing some looking into VoIP stuff.

I set it up (very easy) but I'm having a problem.

I load up a softphone on my desktop and try to connect and I get this error:

Jul 14 12:41:10 NOTICE[1579]: Registration from 'Travis Roy
' failed for '69.84.130.55'

200 is my extension.
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Re: [OT] GoDaddy feedback

[Ed Robbins]

That's an interesting experience.  I say that because when I worked 
there, the end of last year, they were actively working on improving 
that.  In fact, I had seen the beta of it and played around with it for 
a while.  The beta was moving away from the click through, to have a 
seperate section that would allow you to choose the additional services.


If you really want to get the message across go to their website and 
then find Bob Parsons Weblog, leave it as a comment that way you'll be 
sure it goes to the top dog @ GoDaddy.


Ed

Randy Edwards wrote:
   Forgive me for venting, but I know a lot of folks use GoDaddy to manage 
their domains.  I just renewed some domains today and was less than impressed 
(understatement=ON) at the customer experience.


   So I wrote the below e-mail to them.  I doubt it'll have any impact, but it 
felt good writing it.  Since the list is a bit slow, I'm curious to hear if 
others think I am way over the top or off base on this:


 - - - snip - - - 


Hi Folks,

   I've used GoDaddy for years.  Today, I renewed several of my domains.  I 
want to give you some feedback on my customer experience in renewing my 
domains.


   In short, I feel abused.  Let me describe my experience in detail.

   I selected the domains I wanted to renew and clicked renew.  I then was 
force-fed an option to register other TLDs for one of my domains.  I thought 
to myself, that's insulting, if I wanted to register other TLDs I would have 
done so.  But I clicked through to proceed to my shopping cart...


   I was then force-fed options to host my domains at GoDaddy or somewhere.  
Obviously if I'm renewing domains my domains are already hosted somewhere and 
if I was unhappy with that hosting I would be seeking out hosting options.  
Worse, this force-fed page was very long and caused me to take time to read 
the sales pitches to figure out how to get out of the page.  Down at the 
bottom -- past the "drive traffic" huckster and web-mail options I finally 
found the continue button -- great...


   But then I'm taken to a "checkout special" for SSL certs -- another 
huckster barking at me trying to sell me something I didn't ask to be sold.  
At least this page was a decent length so I could quickly find the button 
that LIED saying "No thanks.  Proceed to cart".


   I say "lied" because clicking on the "proceed to cart" button took me to 
yet another force-fed page, "Checkout special" for Website Complete, with a 
similar "no thanks proceed to cart" button.


   At least this final button told the truth.  I finally arrived at the 
shopping cart.


   At this point, I was appalled:

* I was treated not as a person or customer, but just as an object for GoDaddy 
to force-feed sales pitches to.


* I was outright lied to.  Buttons that say "proceed to cart" should proceed 
to cart or they should say something else!  Perhaps you consider this just 
marketing spin or puffery, but I consider it an out-and-out lie, and I do not 
like being lied to.


* I found that despite my checking 4 domains, the shopping cart only listed 3.  
Whoops, since there was multiple .NET domains being renewed, GoDaddy listed 
those in one line-item.  Gee, that's confusing and required a triple-take to 
notice.


   Here's my question: Should a customer -- CUSTOMER -- have to go through 
this abuse in order to pay GoDaddy money?  There are many other registrars 
out there, some of them considerably cheaper than GoDaddy.  Again, I've been 
a GoDaddy customer for years, so I'm not speaking about this lightly.


   Here's my last words on the subject.  I'm only one person, but computers 
are my line of work and I do influence others.  I do not take such abuse 
lightly, and I despise paying for such abuse.


   In six months or so I'll have to renew domains for some of my own 
customers, people who pay us to handle their Internet services.  At that time 
I'll be using GoDaddy again.  I will renew those domains a couple of months 
before they expire.  If I am subjected to the type of abuse I experienced 
this time with GoDaddy my decision will be easy: I will simply move those 
domains to another registrar who values customers and does not subject them 
to such lies and abuse.


   Please don't take this the wrong way -- this is not a threat.  It's a 
promise.


   But I do not feel I'm asking for too much.  I'm asking for a company to 
tell the truth and to offer me a streamlined, non-time-wasting process to 
register and manipulate my domains.  Again, that is not too much to ask for, 
but of course the decision is up to you.


 Sincerely, one of your customers,
 .
 Randy

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Re: [OT?] domain registration durations

[Ed Robbins]

Dan Jenkins wrote:
First I've ever heard that line. I've been renewing many clients for 9 
years
recently (for some reason GoDaddy doesn't seem to allow 10 year 
registrations).
Whether that is GoDaddy doing it every year automatically, I have no idea.
As a former GoDaddy employee I can tell you this isn't the case. 
Multi-year registrations where done for the term purchased.

Ed
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Problem with terminal line wrapping

[Ed Robbins]

I'm having a problem with line wrapping in SuSe 9.2 and I'm hoping 
someone can help me out.
When using a terminal window like konsole or vte, I'm having a problem 
with line wrapping.  If I paste text that is longer than the terminal is 
wide, it wraps back onto the same line, as if it isn't doing a line feed.

I can temporarily correct it by doing something like stty cols 132, but 
that only lasts as long as I don't resize the window.  I've been looking 
in termcap, inputrc and others for some clues as to how to fix it but I 
haven't come up with anything yet.

Any ideas or possible fixes?
Thanks.
Ed
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Re: vps recommendation wanted

[Ed Robbins]

Check out Go Daddy.  I just recently ended my employment with them and I 
worked on their dedicated server product.  I know the dedicated server 
was your machine to do with as you liked and I believe the Virtual 
Servers where pretty much the same.

Ed
Greg Rundlett wrote:
I recently signed up for a Virtual Private Server (VPS) dedicated Linux 
'root server' through 1and1.com.

I find that their setup is underwhelming.  For example:
   * no c compiler (how am I supposed to install stuff?  I guess the
 first thing to install is a compiler)
   * mysql is version 3.23.58
   * security updates are handled through ftp, only from the server,
 without any detail about the process
   * There are two disconnected, but somewhat overlapping
 administration interfaces, which both are pure misery to use.  One
 of these controls the 'account' and the other (Plesk 'Reloaded'
 v7.5) is to manage the server/services/applications etc...  I
 thought from rumor Plesk would be powerful, but in actual
 experience it pales in comparison to something like webmin at
 actually managing a remote server through a browser.
   * They advertise a 'siteCreator' tool that would make it easy to
 resell hosting for small businesses, but fail to mention that it
 doesn't come with a root server.
   * Their FAQs and documentation are awfulsimplistic, long on
 marketing, disclaimers, and generally useless information like
 'What is the Internet for?', lacking concrete examples, etc.
I could go on, but you get the picture.  I'm stuck with what they offer 
at the moment.  But I'm wondering what other VPS providers people might 
have experience with, and/or recommend.  I've seen 
http://www.tektonic.net/ recommended by a person who uses them, and 
indeed they seem to have a better offering than 1and1.com.


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Re: eclipse on debian sarge

[Ed Robbins]

You may find installing it directly from the eclipse site to be just as 
easy.  First you need to have Java installed, you may find it easier to 
do this from java.sun.com as well.  Then download the zip file from 
eclipse.  Unzip and simply run the executable in the eclipse directory.

Ed
Greg Rundlett wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone is using eclipse on Debian Sarge?
I am trying to get into Java web development, but I find no information 
on properly getting eclipse installed and running on Sarge.  I found an 
article about installing it on Woody[1], but the author had to jump 
through hoops to get things working there.  It seems that you could 
download eclipse 3 web tools [2] from eclipse.org, but I have not yet 
figured out exactly what I need to do in order to ensure that I have met 
the requirements, that I have the right pieces.  I would rather install 
it using apt if possible b/c then the maintenance, dependencies and 
upgrade is so much easier.

Searching debian.org, seems to indicate that a prior packager of eclipse 
2.x has stopped maintaining it, but there is a german website with some 
eclipse 3.0 download [3], and eclipse *is* being adopted into debian, 
but not ready yet.  The last comment on this thread[4] indicates as of 
Jan 11, 2005 there is *almost* an eclipse 3 debian package.

In order to get Java technology installed, I am reading the Debian Java 
FAQ [5], but personal tips or pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg
[1] http://hemswell.lincoln.ac.uk/~dnutter/eclipse-woody.php
[2] http://eclipse.org/webtools/index.html
[3] www.katzien.de/debian/eclipse3/
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276096
[5] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq
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Re: [OT] How to get calling number when CallerID reports "unknown"

[Ed Robbins]

Larry Cook wrote:
Travis,
What is this about?

It involves a legal issues with two other parties.  I suspect 
unethical, if not illegal, behavior and if one party made the call 
from the office of the other parties lawyer, it could bolter my case.

Unknown is usually from some place that doesn't have caller ID (the 
person that is calling you). "Private" comes up when it's blocked via 
caller ID blocking.

I did get a reply off list that an unlisted number might show as 
"Unknown".  I suspect that the person that called has an unlisted cell 
phone.  So maybe that's it.

There's a number of reasons why this occurs and you listed one of them.  
The new number portability rules have also complicated this issue.  You 
can request a trace from the telco provider, for a fee,  but if the 
number is truly "Out of Area"  they may not be of much help either.

Ed
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Re: FC3 and video...

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Fred wrote:
I just upgraded from FC2 to FC3. Bad idea. I've had endless problems
with getting the ieee1394 and related modules to work, and also I am no
longer able to play DVDs through Xine.
I am seriously thinking of downgrading back to FC2.
I think part of the problem is that much of the code is not completely
reworked for FC2 (I pull most stuff from freshrpms and livna through
yum.)
So, am I going crazy? Is there anyone else who have the 1394 modules and
DVD playing working on FC3? Or perhaps I should consider a fresh install
vs. an upgrade?
 

I haven't tried the 1394 stuff in FC3 yet, however I play DVD's just 
fine with xine and other players.  Had to load and build a few things of 
course, but once done it worked fine.  I went through and loaded the 
stuff for Ogle, which if I recall gave me everything I needed.

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/
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Re: Since I'm feeling lucky, how about another sendmail question?

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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> On Thursday, Nov 18th 2004 at 15:45 -0500, quoth Benjamin Scott:
>
> =>On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, at 4:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> =>> I want to reject all incoming email which is addressed to my domain and
> =>> has a completly numeric address
> =>>
> =>> e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> =>>
> =>> Anyone have a recipe?
> =>
> =>:0:
> =>* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> =>/dev/null
>
> Thanks, but no. What I want is to reject in sendmail. I don't even use
> procmail for spam processing since I'm using spamass-milter. The goal is
> to reject all spam before reception completes.

If your using the milter, why not configure the secondary to use the
milter as well?  I do this with a different milter that I use. It's been a
while since I looked at it, but you could have them both use the same spamd as 
well.

Ed

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Re: VoIP software

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That's what an FXS port is for, it provides dial tone and other functions
that a CO would provide.  I don't know if you could plug your entire phone
'network' into it or not.  You might try asking or searching the
asterisk-users mailing list, it's a very active list.

Ed

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Bill McGonigle wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2004, at 12:11, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
>
> > You need
> > an FXO card of some sort to plug your phone line into. You can buy a
> > single port FXO card from  Digium  (Wildcard X100P) for $100...
> > Then, you need IP phones. You can get Grandstream Budgetones for about
> > $65, or you can spend $600 on a Cisco :-)
>
> Is there a card you can use to plug your existing phone 'network' into?
>   At this point I just want Asterisk for doing voicemail and
> auto-attendant, so no need for VOIP phones, per se, just two POTS lines
> in the house.
>
> -Bill
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Re: VoIP software

[Ed Robbins]

If you want to see some cool voip hardware checkout some of the wireless
voip phones.  It's a SIP phone that is 802.11x aware, x being b or g I
don't remember. So think about it, you're on the road and in a hotel room
with wireless access or in a coffee shop with Wi-Fi and you can hop on the
network and make voip calls.  Supposedly there are cell phones coming out
in the not too distant future that will also have this capability.

Ed

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Travis Roy wrote:

>
> >>I've been playing around with VoIP a lot lately.  If you want to see
> >>some cool stuff, check out asterisk.  www.asterisk.org
> >>
> >>I'm doing IAX2 calls from my house in NH to were I'm staying now in
> >>AZ.  I bought a couple of SIP phones and had it setup in no time.
> >>When I come back for Thanksgiving, I'll have a full blown PBX running
> >>at my house with autoattendant, voicemail, etc...
> >>
> > Sounds like a great meeting presentation topic to me!
>
> I agree, looks cool. It also looks a bit much for the average home
> computer user. :)
>
> I just pointed out Skype because it's extreamly easy to use and is cross
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Re: VoIP software

[Ed Robbins]

I'd be happy to do a meeting if we can schedule it around my visits to New
England.  Or perhaps I could do a presentation via an Asterisk conference!
:-)

Ed

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Ed Lawson wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:55:46 -0500 (EST)
> Ed Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've been playing around with VoIP a lot lately.  If you want to see
> > some cool stuff, check out asterisk.  www.asterisk.org
> >
> > I'm doing IAX2 calls from my house in NH to were I'm staying now in
> > AZ.  I bought a couple of SIP phones and had it setup in no time.
> > When I come back for Thanksgiving, I'll have a full blown PBX running
> > at my house with autoattendant, voicemail, etc...
> >
>
> Sounds like a great meeting presentation topic to me!
>
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Re: VoIP software

[Ed Robbins]

You don't have to put any money into it.  Check out some of the soft
phones from Xten or sipphone.  I actually bought a SIP phone for $89 just
so the wife wouldn't have to talk with a headset.  That's all I needed to
do the asterisk to asterisk comm.  I spent $100 to buy a card to hook up
an outside line, but I would recommend spending $130 for the next higher
version.

Ed

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:55, Ed Robbins wrote:
> > I've been playing around with VoIP a lot lately.  If you want to see some
> > cool stuff, check out asterisk.  www.asterisk.org
> >
> > I'm doing IAX2 calls from my house in NH to were I'm staying now in AZ.  I
> > bought a couple of SIP phones and had it setup in no time.  When I come
> > back for Thanksgiving, I'll have a full blown PBX running at my house with
> > autoattendant, voicemail, etc...
>
> I've been looking more and more at asterisk.  Not having *any*
> experience with phone related stuff, it's a little intimidating but it
> seems like there's a lot of documentation out there.  One question I'd
> have for you, Ed, is what kind of financial investment did you have to
> put into hardware for this (if you don't mind my asking)?
>
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Re: VoIP software

[Ed Robbins]

That's what I like about the IAX protocol, it's NAT friendly and perfect
for what I"m using it for.  The hardware is fairly cheap as well.  I
bought a Digium x100p card that I hooked up my incoming line to so callers
coming in come into asterisk and then can ring extensions, check vmail,
etc.  Overall it's a very cool piece of software and that's after spending
the past 10 years developing call center software and knowing what's
involved in it.  The asterisk group really has a brillant project.

Ed

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jon maddog Hall wrote:

> Ed,
>
> I called the USA from Brazil last week and talked for 1/2 hour.  Used an
> IAXy analog-phone to VoIP box from Digium.com and the Nufone.net service.
> The IAX protocol (supported by Asterisk) can go through firewalls and NAT
> translations.  You just hook the box up to an Ethernet that has DHCP service
> and an analog telephone, then plug in the power.  About twenty seconds later
> you have a connection to the service provider.
>
> The 1/2 hour call from Brazil to the USA cost me 73 cents.  I even let some of
> the Brazilians call their relatives in Canada.  It was so cheap, why not?
>
> Pretty cool.
>
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Re: VoIP software

[Ed Robbins]

I've been playing around with VoIP a lot lately.  If you want to see some
cool stuff, check out asterisk.  www.asterisk.org

I'm doing IAX2 calls from my house in NH to were I'm staying now in AZ.  I
bought a couple of SIP phones and had it setup in no time.  When I come
back for Thanksgiving, I'll have a full blown PBX running at my house with
autoattendant, voicemail, etc...

Ed

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Travis Roy wrote:

> I just wanted to let everybody know about www.skype.com. It's a neat
> VoIP program that lets you do free computer <-> computer calls, and has
> cheap rates if you call a real phone line.
>
> They have versions for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
>
> I tried it out with a friend of mine last night (me on windows and him
> on his linux box). Worked great.
>
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Re: HDTV PCI card recommendations?

[Ed Robbins]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Bill Freeman wrote:

>   Does the group have opinions on what HDTV PCI card to buy
> before the broadcast flag becomes a reality?  And good places to buy
> it?

I can't say I know anything about it but /. had this yesterday.  When I
looked at the card, one of the things that appealed to me was that it was
fully supported under Linux and the windows dirvers were experimental.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/07/2232220&tid=1298&tid=137&tid=1

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Re: Dealing with unwelcome visitors

[Ed Robbins]

Can you exclude all addresses except certain one's? This is how I deal with
 it.  Or look at port knocking for opening an ssh connection.

Ed
Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was written successfully
> I have a FC2 machine exposed to the Internet, supporting web, ftp, ssh 
> and a few other functions. Each day I read the logs and see one or two 
> visitors trying to log into ssh as "admin", "guest", "test" and "user" 
> with one try each with a password and one without. The IP address is 
> always different, but the fact that the pattern of names and attempts 
> is always the same suggests script kiddies.
> 
> I manually add the IP address to an iptables chain so that all future 
> packets from that address are dropped.
> 
> For a while, i was looking up the addresses and sending email to their 
> local abuse@ website, but that got to be too much work.
> 
> Anyone have a suggestion re:
> 
> 1) are these appropriate actions to take?
> 2) is there any easier way to do it?
> 3) is there something else I ought to be doing?
> 
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Re: Fedora Core 2 & XFree86 config

[Ed Robbins]

Thanks Jeff that's exactly what I was looking for.

Ed
Jeff Macdonald wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 06:02, Ed Robbins wrote:
 

I just installed Fedora core 2 on my laptop and I'm trying to find a way 
to config XFree86 after install.  I haven't used any redhat stuff in a 
while, but I can't find the usual tools like redhat-config-xfree86, or 
Xconfigurator, xf86config, etc...

I'm trying to add an external monitor and would prefer not to use 
XFree86 -configure, any input?  Thanks.
   

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Fedora Core 2 & XFree86 config

[Ed Robbins]

I just installed Fedora core 2 on my laptop and I'm trying to find a way 
to config XFree86 after install.  I haven't used any redhat stuff in a 
while, but I can't find the usual tools like redhat-config-xfree86, or 
Xconfigurator, xf86config, etc...

I'm trying to add an external monitor and would prefer not to use 
XFree86 -configure, any input?  Thanks.

Ed
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Re: OT: Voting results in NH

[Ed Robbins]

Derek Martin wrote:

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:08:02AM -0500, Ed Robbins wrote:
 

Ok, so it's not Linux related, but what a great discussion!  Kudos to 
Paul for pointing out that our form of government is not a democracy, it 
is in fact a republic.  
   

Jeez, can't get no respect, even amongst geeks...   ;-)

Derek,

I hear by give unto thee an official "atta boy".  Looking back through 
the thread I see that you pointed out this very point in an earlier 
response.  My humblest apologies for any hardship I may have placed upon 
you for my lack of diligence. :-)

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Re: OT: Voting results in NH

[Ed Robbins]

Ok, so it's not Linux related, but what a great discussion!  Kudos to 
Paul for pointing out that our form of government is not a democracy, it 
is in fact a republic.  However, that being said, we do have many 
democratic process' and institutions, the New England town meeting is a 
perfect example of that.

brian wrote:

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:20, Greg Rundlett wrote:
 

However, (and I'm really not looking for flames) I can't for the life of 
me understand why people still would vote for George Bush / Republican 
after 9/11
   

I'm also intrigued by this statement.  Are you alluding to a cause and 
effect relationship, i.e. something Bush did that triggered the event?  
Or are you talking about the policy and actions after 9/11?

And that's what makes this country interesting, the ability to vote your
choice.
Do you somehow believe that George Bush *caused* 9/11 or that a
Democratic president would have handled the situation better?
I personally can't understand why any able-bodied person would vote
Democrat...
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Re: Verizon email problems

[Ed Robbins]

Bruce Dawson wrote:

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:43, Ed Robbins wrote:
 

Bruce Dawson wrote:
   

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:30, Ed Robbins wrote:
 

Hey everyone,
   

...
 

Now the question is, how long is my email address blacklisted for
   

I suspect its not really blacklisted, but denied because of:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED] jbd]$ host edrobbins.com
  edrobbins.com has address 216.21.229.209
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] jbd]$ host 216.21.229.209
  Host 209.229.21.216.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
You too have no reverse DNS entry for your IP address.
 

 

Actually I do, you used the wrong domain name.  It's erobbins.com
 

Yipes! Thanks for showing me up ;-)  (Someday I'll be a better
proof-reader).
Are you in any of the RBLs?

--Bruce
 

:-) I've been guilty of bad proof reading many times!  It's that shoot 
first ask questions later mentality that I have, gets me into trouble 
all the time.  I'm on your side, I'm a strong proponent of reverse DNS 
and would love to enable it as a filter on my mail server but sadly I 
think I would miss a lot of email that way.

I don't believe I'm on any black lists but that doesn't mean that the IP 
block my servers are on isn't.  Unfortunately there isn't much I can do 
about that.  Interestingly I just attempted to hit Verizon's mail server 
using my domain and it's working now, so if they are blacklisting it 
appears to be for a short time.

Ed

Here's a

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Linux in my truck

[Ed Robbins]

Does anyone have experience putting linux in a car/truck.  I have a 
grandiose scheme to build a HUD for my truck, based of course on linux.  
One of my first things to come to terms with is power, I could use a 
simple voltage inverter but why not plug into the 12v dc directly.  Any 
comments, suggestions and real life experience is welcome.

Ed

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Verizon email problems

[Ed Robbins]

Hey everyone,

Joshua asked me to summarize my findings on his email problem.  The lack 
of an MX record for the domain threeofus.com is what appears to be 
triggering it.  To investigate I telneted to relay.verizon.net on port 
25 did my greeting and then issued  mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Lo and 
behold it was rejected with the same message that his wife was getting.

Ok, I knew I had a valid mx entry so I went to my mail server and 
discovered that verizon attempted to send me email.  Really what they 
where doing is going through the process until they receive the 
Recipient Ok message.  It just so happens that I had a Level 3 spam 
filter running and it blocked verizon from getting this far.  Aha! 

Ok, I fixed that and tried it again, but I had the same result...hmmm.  
I bet they blacklisted my address, I have found this to be a pretty 
typical thing that is done.  Ok, onto my next attempt.  I have several 
domains setup so I picked one and made sure everything was configured 
correctly and eureka!  It worked.

Now the question is, how long is my email address blacklisted for

Ed

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Re: Tunneling a protocol over ssh

[Ed Robbins]

Here ya go, I do the exact same thing.  I build an ssh tunnel from work 
to my home and it is very seemless, once you figure out the routing.

/usr/sbin/pppd proxyarp noauth pty "ssh home -p 22 -C -2 '/usr/sbin/pppd 
proxyarp notty noauth 192.168.100.20:192.168.100.21'" 
192.168.100.21:192.168.100.20

Once the connection is made, I have a script that takes care of the 
routing for me.
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

So my home network is 192.168.1.x, which isn't used in our network.  
This routing will handle it:

route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 gw 192.168.100.21

The ssh tunnel machine has an IP of 192.168.117.92 so this route on a 
client, other than the ssh machine, will get the packet to my home network.

route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 gw 192.168.117.92

Ed

Chris wrote:

I have a problem at work because they have turned off nearly all our
ports outgoing as well as incoming
what I would like to do is this...

HOME

Linux box running a vncserver

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CABLE MODEM

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Firewall at work

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My Win2k desktop system at work
running a VNCviewer
I also have some Linux and Solaris systems which I can use...

What I would like to do is set up an ssh tunnel so that I can view my
Linux system at home which
so my thinking is that I should be able to use one of the *nix boxes to
tunnel the VNC connection via ssh over port 22
what commands on the Linux/Solaris boxes do I need to use to do that,
also do I need to run some command on my Linux box at home to complete
the connection
I have been able to view my Home Win2k system on my work 2k system using
a tunnel via putty, so I know it is possible... and I just redirect a
port on my Home Linux system to my home Win2K box.
Thanks

Chris

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Re: protection in sendmail?

[Ed Robbins]

There are a number of solutions for this.  Do a search on sendmail 
+milter +virus and you should find a number of hits for anti-virus ties 
into sendmail via the milter interface.  Check out www.nspasm.org when 
you get a chance, it's a great anti-spam tool and I know the next 
release is going to have an anti-virus tie in.  When I talked to Sean 
two weeks ago, he said he was a couple weeks away from releasing the 
newest version.

Ed

Jason wrote:

All,

Client just got the price tag for M$ Exchange license. 2 Questions!

Good Linux alternative?
I am hosting their mail on my server temporarily (sendmail) but what can I
offer for virus protection on the server rather than for each end user?
Thanks,

Jason

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Re: SiS, Intel NIC, PCI and a bald head.

[Ed Robbins]

Have you called eracks?  When I called them they were very responsive, both on 
the phone and via email.

Ed

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:12, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> Not it - looked at that many times to make sure that it was
> selected..and it is
>
> i think that I'll try booting with linux pci=direct and see what
> happens
>
> I'm going to load up the .20 kern and see if that does it..I noticed
> that there were several PCI fixes and what not
>
> ~kurth
>
> Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> >>PCI: This system does not support PCI
> >
> >That's usually a sign that PCI support is simply not configured.
> >
> > cd yourKernelSourceDirectory.
> > make menuconfig.
> > select "General Setup".
> > enable PCI support.
> > the default Access Mode ("any") s/b fine.
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Re: SiS, Intel NIC, PCI and a bald head.

[Ed Robbins]

This is interesting, I had the exact same problem with an eracks machine, but 
the pci=bios at the boot prompt fixed it for me.  I installed with SuSe 8.1, 
specified the pci=bios and all is well.

Ed

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 00:14, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> here's the story...
>
> bought a machine from eracks.com with no OS installed (Duron
> 1.3g/128meg/20GHD) to be used as a fire wall/dhcp server for a client
> with a 256k pipe.
>
> I'm installing OpenBSD and after rebooting I notice that there isn't a
> network card, both of them are missing.and of course the stock oBSD
> kern isn't compiled with support for /proc...
>
> so I install slackware 8.1 goes off without any problems.but again
> upon rebooting - no NICS.  One is an intel pro/100s and the other is a
> SiS900.
>
> I see them both in my /proc/pci file, but that's it.  Not in anyplace
> else under /proc.
>
> BTW - they don't appear in ifconfig -a output, and yes - the kernel
> (2.4.18) is compiled for PCI support and for both nics.  Both cards are
> good.  I have tested them in other machines.
>
> And yes - I have tried pci=bios at boot timeit's a nogo.
>
> I've pulled all my hair out, and how I'm asking you to pull out your as
> well :-)
>
>
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Laptop

[Ed Robbins]

Hey everyone, 

I'm looking at new laptops and I'm interested in any feedback on the
Compaq 2110's if anyone is running one, or the Sony VAIO GRZ610.

Thanks.

Ed




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Re: Networking help

[Ed Robbins]

Paul,

Can you draw a rough diagram of the layout.  In your original post you
refer to them as SystemA, SystemB and SystemC.  I find it helpful, to
know the layout with the addresses.  

Where does 10.241.38.2 come into play?  Is that another multi-homed box
with an interface on the 168.159.36 network?

The first think I noticed was the two default routes, on multi-homed
boxes I only run one default route and then add specific network routes
to handle packets that won't go through the default route.  Have you
tried adding a specific route to handle the request, I can't think of a
single case, that I've experienced,  in the scenario that you describe
that hasn't come down to a problem in configuring the routing tables.

Ed
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Does this make sense to *anyone*?
> 
> This information is from a system currently not responding to pings
> (as described previously in the thread).
> 
> # ifconfig   
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:A8:00:D6:DE  
>   inet addr:192.168.10.11  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:276739 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>   RX bytes:52875228 (50.4 MiB)  TX bytes:331924088 (316.5 MiB)
>   Interrupt:10 
> 
> eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:A8:00:D6:DF  
>   inet addr:10.241.38.11  Bcast:10.241.38.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:10902420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:8356304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:10 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>   RX bytes:2088329274 (1.9 GiB)  TX bytes:1876519092 (1.7 GiB)
>   Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000 
> 
> loLink encap:Local Loopback  
>   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>   UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>   RX packets:9818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:9818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>   RX bytes:21383856 (20.3 MiB)  TX bytes:21383856 (20.3 MiB)
> 
> # netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> 10.241.38.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U40 0  0 eth1
> 192.168.10.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U40 0  0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 10.241.38.1 0.0.0.0 UG   40 0  0 eth1
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.10.10.0.0.0 UG   40 0  0 eth0
> 
> # ping 168.159.36.90 
> PING 168.159.36.90 (168.159.36.90): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 168.159.36.90: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=0.4 ms
> 64 bytes from 168.159.36.90: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.2 ms
> 
> --- 168.159.36.90 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/ma10.241.38.2x = 0.2/0.3/0.4 ms
> bldsvr:~# ssh -l pll 168.159.36.90 
> ssh: connect to address 168.159.36.90 port 22: No route to host
> 
> # traceroute 168.159.36.90 
> traceroute to 168.159.36.90 (168.159.36.90), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>  1  10.241.38.2 (10.241.38.2)  2.563 ms  0.452 ms  0.346 ms
>  2  168.159.36.90 (168.159.36.90)  0.191 ms  0.208 ms  0.177 ms
> 
> -- 
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul
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> 
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>but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.
> 
>If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
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Looking for specialized monitor

[Ed Robbins]

My neighbor is looking for a 9" monochrome monitor for a metal working
machine that he owns.  I told him to try ESS in Manchester but I'm
looking for others sources for him.  Anyone have some places I can send
him, in the area or online.

Thanks.

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Re: Apache help

[Ed Robbins]

Here's how it works on mine:

Set the namevirtualhosts to your IP address:

NameVirtualHosts 28.221.30.35

Then make your tater VH the first VH entry 


DocumentRoot /home/httpd/htdocs/tater
ServerName tater
TransferLog /var/log/httpd/tater




Ed

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 15:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an apache server whichis currently using the VirtualHost 
> directive.  So far that works great.  However, the hostname given to 
> it only exists in my local /etc/hosts file.
> 
> Is there any way to get this to also answer to the actual IP address 
> assigned to my system?  IOW, when I hit http://tater I get the pages 
> under my VirtualHost directive.  yet, when I hit http://28.221.30.35
> I get the "Welcome to Your New Home in Cyberspace!" default apache 
> page.
> 
> How do I get both the IP and the hostname to show the same page?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul
> --
>   It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing,
>but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.
> 
>If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
> 
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Rack Mount Servers

[Ed Robbins]

Hi all,

I'm about to help a local ISP update their NOC and I'm in need of some
rack mount servers.  Anyone in the group have a preferred supplier
and/or comments/experience with particular brands/models...Could I put
anymore /'s in a sentance

As always, I will be forever indebted to all for any wisdom gleaned from
the group, said while slightly bowing at the waist

TIA

Ed



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