RE: Your fav AV?

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

What's the current state of Trend Micro's solution for SMBs?

 

David

 

 

From: Kirk Woloshyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 4:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Your fav AV?

 

Webroot SypSweeper w/ AV.

It works, good console, small footprint, AD integration, it works,
support is in Colorado - they generally answer within 30 seconds and
haven't been stumped yet, did I mention it works? After removing SAV and
installing SpySweeper the first scan picked up tons of stuff that SAV
missed. Not saying that it's perfect, but was better than Symantec. If
you have a distributed network (500+ PCs in 25 locations for me) you can
put up a distributor for updates at the remote site. That way your
updates only go across the WAN once to the distributor instead of for
each client. My distributors are all old XP boxes - nothing special.

Changed about 18 months ago and I'd do it again in a heartbeat if I had
to.

Kirk



Kirk Woloshyn
2825 Temple Avenue
Signal Hill, CA 90755
 
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c 562.682.0261



Neil Standley wrote: 

We're looking to switch AV vendors and would like to know, who's your
favorite and why?

 

Please no flames about Symantec or McAfee, we won't even bother with
them.

 

Thanks,

Neil 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Problem w/ latest patches (SOLVED)

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Turns out it was an continuing issue with NVidia video card/drivers, in
this case I'd switched from an outboard ATI card back to the onboard
Nvidia.  Killed the darn thing.  Googling found issues going back into
last year, though why it would just pop up, don't know.  FYI...

 

David

 

 

From: David Florea, SysAdmin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Problem w/ latest patches?

 

I'm having an issue here, after doing my patching the other day,
all machines came back up but one production box (W2K3 Ent), which went
into a cyclical reboot cycle, with the blue screen just blinking on
before the box restarted, not long enough to read it  Nothing gets
written to the event log, couldn't even get back in under safe mode.
 
Today, one of my test machines (W2K3R2 Std) that I recently
built did exactly the same thing.  This one I can get back in on safe
mode, but again nothing gets written to the event log re that blue
screen and I still can't see it, it's just a flash.  (Forgot my video
camera today too).
 
I uninstalled about 8 patches, all done within the last couple
of days, no change.  Getting a bit wired about this, anyone have
anything similar??
 
Thanks,
 
David

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Problem w/ latest patches?

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

I'm having an issue here, after doing my patching the other day,
all machines came back up but one production box (W2K3 Ent), which went
into a cyclical reboot cycle, with the blue screen just blinking on
before the box restarted, not long enough to read it.  Nothing gets
written to the event log, couldn't even get back in under safe mode.
 
Today, one of my test machines (W2K3R2 Std) that I recently
built did exactly the same thing.  This one I can get back in on safe
mode, but again nothing gets written to the event log re that blue
screen and I still can't see it, it's just a flash.  (Forgot my video
camera today too).
 
I uninstalled about 8 patches, all done within the last couple
of days, no change.  Getting a bit wired about this, anyone have
anything similar??
 
Thanks,
 
David


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Vista vs. RPC/HTTP

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Was there a discussion a couple of months ago here about Vista not
playing well with Outlook RPC/HTTP?  I've seen something on it but can't
find a definitive answer, and a couple of my remote folks now are unable
to get RPC configured on Vista.  Google shows several folks with similar
problems, but again no good answer.  Thanks in advance,
 
David

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RE: D-Link router - strange behavior

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

You got a rogue DHCP device somewhere?  I had that issue recently...
 
David



From: Lee Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: D-Link router - strange behavior


My "google-fu" is lacking, so I'm looking for suggestions.
 
I have a D-Link DIR-635 router that is used to connect to a VPN server.
My client is an XP Pro SP2 box, fully patched, except for SP3. The
server's router assigns itself the address of 192.168.0.100 (or passes
that address to me) and I use that address to map drives. Lately, my
router has been deciding that the router is really at 192.168.0.200 and
my drive mapping fails until I reset my router. This is happening during
the course of the day, without computer re-sets, but perhaps with a loss
of connection to the VPN server (my VPN connection is configured to
reconnect if the connection is lost).
 
Short of trashing the router, are there any suggestions?
 
 


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RE: Transferring BES to different server

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Right, Bob set me onto that as well, thanks for the help!

DAF
 

-Original Message-
From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transferring BES to different server

I think it is called "knife cutover"... or "knife edge cutover"


-Original Message-
From: David Florea, SysAdmin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Transferring BES to different server

I had a server fail to come back up after patches yesterday, though may
be unrelated to the current patches.  However, this box was running my
Blackberry small business server.  After a repair, I can get to the file
structure, but most of the apps are dead.  Is there any way, after I get
the application itself reloaded, to transfer the BES settings/users from
the old server?  Appreciate any advice - thanks.

David
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Transferring BES to different server

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

I had a server fail to come back up after patches yesterday, though may
be unrelated to the current patches.  However, this box was running my
Blackberry small business server.  After a repair, I can get to the file
structure, but most of the apps are dead.  Is there any way, after I get
the application itself reloaded, to transfer the BES settings/users from
the old server?  Appreciate any advice - thanks.

David
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Symantec Endpoint -- does it work?

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Anyone got any experiences with Symantec Endpoint 11?  Just wondering if
it's any improvement or not.
 
Thanks,
 
David
 

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RE: Notepad question

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Yep, already using TextPad, thanks.
 

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Notepad question

That's why TextPad, Notepad++ and ConTEXT exist ;)

David Florea, SysAdmin wrote:
> No, just using old Norton corporate.  Did find that if 'Word wrap' is 
> turned on in Notepad, though, it slows it down to about half speed.
> Bottom line, though, Notepad is worthless for editing large files.

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RE: Notepad question

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

No, just using old Norton corporate.  Did find that if 'Word wrap' is
turned on in Notepad, though, it slows it down to about half speed.
Bottom line, though, Notepad is worthless for editing large files.
 
Thanks.



From: David L Herrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Notepad question



Did not happen to update AV at the same time?

 

From: David Florea, SysAdmin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Notepad question

 

Well, there aren't any really 'good' machines, there are just 'slow' and
'worthless'.  I think I'm just going to keep my users using TextPad,
it's so much quicker than notepad.  I was just curious, and so was my
supervisor, as to whether anything recently might have caused Notedpad
to become even slower than it was before.  Video drivers haven't
changed, and Textpad works almost instantly.  Maybe MS decided to
'improve' Notepad, who knows..

 

Thanks, even liked the 'edlin' suggestionhehe

 

 



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Notepad question


What if you try copying notepad.exe from a "good" machine to a "bad"
machine. Does the problem go away? If not, then the problem could be a
video driver or something like that, which you could test on one machine
with a rollback. 

Jeff 





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I know, nobody ever asks a question about notepad, so this is weird.
But since we applied some windows updates this last week, notepad
functions have slowed to a crawl.  For instance, we have some folks that
have to do a find & replace operation, notepad has now started to run
quite slowly, line by line, and on a 200K text file may take an hour.
If I do the same function in Textpad, for example, the same function
happens almost instantly.  Not that it's a critical issue, but has
anyone seen that or know why it might be? 
  
Thanks, 
  
David 

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RE: Notepad question

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Well, there aren't any really 'good' machines, there are just 'slow' and
'worthless'.  I think I'm just going to keep my users using TextPad,
it's so much quicker than notepad.  I was just curious, and so was my
supervisor, as to whether anything recently might have caused Notedpad
to become even slower than it was before.  Video drivers haven't
changed, and Textpad works almost instantly.  Maybe MS decided to
'improve' Notepad, who knows..
 
Thanks, even liked the 'edlin' suggestionhehe
 



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Notepad question



What if you try copying notepad.exe from a "good" machine to a "bad"
machine. Does the problem go away? If not, then the problem could be a
video driver or something like that, which you could test on one machine
with a rollback. 

Jeff 






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I know, nobody ever asks a question about notepad, so this is weird.
But since we applied some windows updates this last week, notepad
functions have slowed to a crawl.  For instance, we have some folks that
have to do a find & replace operation, notepad has now started to run
quite slowly, line by line, and on a 200K text file may take an hour.
If I do the same function in Textpad, for example, the same function
happens almost instantly.  Not that it's a critical issue, but has
anyone seen that or know why it might be? 
  
Thanks, 
  
David 

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Notepad question

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

I know, nobody ever asks a question about notepad, so this is weird.
But since we applied some windows updates this last week, notepad
functions have slowed to a crawl.  For instance, we have some folks that
have to do a find & replace operation, notepad has now started to run
quite slowly, line by line, and on a 200K text file may take an hour.
If I do the same function in Textpad, for example, the same function
happens almost instantly.  Not that it's a critical issue, but has
anyone seen that or know why it might be?
 
Thanks,
 
David

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RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Logmein Rescue was great but pretty spendy.  RAdmin works well, not so
spendy.
 
David



From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports


Anyone have a comparison of RAdmin and Logmein?  Had a developer suggest
going to Logmein Rescue, which I don't have a problem with, but was
wondering how it compared to RAdmin, which I have used before.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe Heaton
 



From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports



Does it have to be "at will" or can a remote-user-initiated connection
work?  If the latter, then perhaps CrossLoop would fit the bill.  Free
and no port issues.

 

Also, take a look at TeamViewer.  

 

And Famatech's Radmin Remote Administrator is a very cost-effective
solution you should consider.

 

 

Roger Wright

 

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

 

Yeah, we did think about that, along with the various other web based
vendors, but cost wise it quickly becomes quite savage. I was hoping to
invest in something we can manage here.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 28 April 2008 11:42
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports

 


A GoToMyPC account with the software installed on every laptop will let
you login to their website and see which PCs are available for
connection. As long as a machine has an HTTP/HTTPS outbound connection
to the GoToMyPC server you can use this with no user intervention. 

 

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H  That looks pretty interesting for one-off jobs. Though I'm after
something that we can apply to hundreds of machines and not require the
end user to do anything, Crossloop would fit in as a replacement for our
Copilot account.

ta

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From: Shawn Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 28 April 2008 05:50
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OS Remote control app without open ports

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Crossloop yet.

It's my favorite program for remote support.

Shawn

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Subject: OS Remote control app without open ports


Does anyone know of an open source remote control app (I guess anything
like that would be VNC based) that will allow a tech to control a remote
machine at will without requiring any ports to be open on the firewall
at the destination end? 

I want to push something out to a ton of laptops and servers. The
servers would be a management nightmare updating all the firewalls and
the laptops will be moving around and therefore we wont have direct
access to the firewalls to be able to set port redirection.

Olly

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RE: 64Bit Vista on laptop? (maybe veering OT)

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Waterworld?
 

-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 64Bit Vista on laptop? (maybe veering OT)

Disclaimer: It's Friday!
The difference Rod is seeing is because he "forgot the floating city!"
$5 to the person who can name the obscure, horrible movie that I
actually paid money years ago to go see that has that outburst. It was
so bad, I remember making fun of the line during the movie, after the
movie, and even remembering the stupid name of the movie. It will be a
test of your Google-Fu (I think). If I give more details it becomes
easier to find.

For Rod's stuff, my guess would be optimized drivers, not that it
matters as long as it's working now.

Dave Lum  - Systems Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025
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-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 6:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: 64Bit Vista on laptop?

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Again - I doubt this is caused by CPU. Besides the almost 99.9%
instruction compatibility
> between the two, there would be /so/ many bench marks showing how
poorly AMD CPUs
> compare to Intel CPUs out there, especially in the driver forums etc.
Something else is up.

  While the instruction sets are compatible, there are significant
architectural differences between AMD and Intel CPUs.  That can affect
performance.

  A given microarchitecture may be good at one thing, but not so good at
another.  For example, one design may have good floating point
performance, while another may excel at integer calculations.  Another
scenario is that a given executable/library was built with compiler
optimization for a particular microarchitecture, and running on a
different microarchitecture yields a performance penalty, because one
design's optimization is another design's worst-case.  In the days of
the P4, a lot of programs ran slower on a P4 than a P3 or AMD, because
most executables were optimized in a way that was worst-case for the
P4's really deep pipeline.

  I'm not saying that's what's going on in Rod Trent's case, just that
there's more to a CPU than the instruction set.  Indeed, I think that
drawing the conclusion "Intel rocks; AMD sucks" from Rod Trent's
experience is premature.  Way too much changed.  For one, the AMD and
Intel chips are in no way compatible at the board level, so switching
CPUs also means you're switching memory controllers, disk controllers,
bus controllers, and who knows what else.  And that can mean not just
silicon, but quality of device driver code, too.

  He also switched from 32-bit Windows to 64-bit Windows.  AMD64 has
16 general-purpose registers, as opposed to the i386's 4/8.  Given
compiler optimization, that can make a big difference for function
calls, as it's more likely all arguments can be stored in registers
instead of pushed on to the stack.  I don't know anything about
architectural differences in the Windows code between i386 and AMD64,
but there may well significant reworking of the kernel, too.

  There may also have been issues with the software configuration his
old laptop, or a change in the architecture of his anti-virus software,
or who-knows-what.

  In short, far too much changed to simply blame it on the CPU.
Without profiling the systems to find out where the bottlenecks are, we
really can't know.  Of course, for Rod's purposes, that doesn't matter
-- all that matters is laptop Y is much faster than laptop X.
But that doesn't help the rest of us, unless we also happen to have
laptop X.  :)

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RE: DB server RAID

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Ah, OK, I do that now, just missed the terminology.  Thanks.



From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:24 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DB server RAID


What they mean by that was actually addressed yesterday.  It means you
should have your logs on a separate array from your databases.  The
reason for this is that logs are an incremental process, meaning there's
not much read/write head movement on the disks.  The databases are
non-incremental, meaning the read/write head is hopping all over the
place on the disk.  Which means, as stated, you should have these
processes separated, in order to maximize your read/write efficiencies.
 
Joe Heaton
 



From: David Florea, SysAdmin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DB server RAID


Late getting to this thread, I know, but can you expand on 'segregate
your I/O'?
 
Thanks,
 
David



From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: DB server RAID


Unfortunately, you're pretty limited with only 6 drives. Typically,
you'd want a separate array for OS, Logs, and DBs. With the hardware you
have available, your best bet would be to go with three RAID 1 Arrays
(OS, Logs, DBs). Hopefully 146Gb is enough space to host your DBs. The
most important thing to remember is to segragate your I/O.
 
- Sean

 
On 4/2/08, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

What's the "industry standard" setup for RAID on a database
server?  I have a Dell PE2950, with 6 146GB SAS drives, which I believe
have come from the factory in a RAID5.  Was just wondering if I should
redo the RAID into a RAID10 situation, which I understand has the best
I/O performance.  The databases will be SQL, although I believe we'd
also be moving an old Foxpro database over.
 
Joe Heaton
AISA
Employment Training Panel
1100 J Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA  95814
(916) 327-5276
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RE: DB server RAID

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Late getting to this thread, I know, but can you expand on 'segregate
your I/O'?
 
Thanks,
 
David



From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: DB server RAID


Unfortunately, you're pretty limited with only 6 drives. Typically,
you'd want a separate array for OS, Logs, and DBs. With the hardware you
have available, your best bet would be to go with three RAID 1 Arrays
(OS, Logs, DBs). Hopefully 146Gb is enough space to host your DBs. The
most important thing to remember is to segragate your I/O.
 
- Sean

 
On 4/2/08, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

What's the "industry standard" setup for RAID on a database
server?  I have a Dell PE2950, with 6 146GB SAS drives, which I believe
have come from the factory in a RAID5.  Was just wondering if I should
redo the RAID into a RAID10 situation, which I understand has the best
I/O performance.  The databases will be SQL, although I believe we'd
also be moving an old Foxpro database over.
 
Joe Heaton
AISA
Employment Training Panel
1100 J Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA  95814
(916) 327-5276
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RE: Alternative to Network Solutions?

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Yep, Dotster's OK, I use Netnameone.com, they're cheap but they work
fine.
 

-Original Message-
From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Alternative to Network Solutions?

That seems like a good reason to me.  :P  I use Dotster.  Of course I
know where they live, so they don't screw my stuff up

-Original Message-
From: Ajay Kulsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:35 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Alternative to Network Solutions?

Thank you all for your suggestions.

To wrap up this thread, can anyone give any strong reason not to go with
GoDaddy -- other than they charging $80 to renew the expired domain?

BTW, does someone want to defend Network Solutions and their high
prices?

Jay

- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Boggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:13 AM
Subject: RE: Alternative to Network Solutions?



Oh well I guess I went overboard, OP isn't really looking for web
hosting, just domain hosting and DNS...  gotta finish reading before I
start typing.

Either way, I host several domains with Dreamhost, and other than the
problem I mentioned with odd domains, everything's been great.  Not sure
on the SPF record part though


-Original Message-
From: Christopher Boggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Alternative to Network Solutions?

I've been using Dreamhost for over two years now, hosting multiple
sites.  Yeah, they majorly oversell, but my service has been consistent
and rarely interrupted.  YMMV. I guess it all depends what server you
get put on.

They've got a great support system, the control panels are all custom
built, you get shell access and real users, lots of other goodies...
and they've got a great sense of humor.

I can provide discount codes if you want them.  Domains are 10 bucks a
year, but beware - they couldn't take a .biz domain I tried to transfer
from NS, I don't think they take the odd ones like .info,

-cb

-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Alternative to Network Solutions?

Netfirms.com here. $60/yr for hosting my website (10GB), $10/yr for
domain renewals.

Dave Lum  - Systems Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025
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-Original Message-
From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Alternative to Network Solutions?

We switched from NetSol years ago due to the same reasons you are
unhappy.
We started using godaddy and have been happy with them. I also use them
for
my personal domains as well.

James

- Original Message - 
From: "Ajay Kulsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:19 PM
Subject: Alternative to Network Solutions?


> Hi folks,
>
> At this time, most of our clients have their domain registered and DNS

> servers kept at Network Solutions. However, we are finding their
charges
> high and services minimal. For example, they do not support creation
of
> SPF records -- and tech-support refuses to send us an email stating
so.
>
> Is GoDaddy a good choice? Any other companies with which you have had
good
> experience? Thanks.
>
> Jay Kulsh
> So. Pasadena, CA
>
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Does anyone have a....

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Power Edge RAID II adapter, our was in an old Dell 4100 PE.  One of the
godawful big things, supported on both ends.??  Or an old Dell
server from that vintage hanging around just for a paperweight??
Contact me offline if you do...
 
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SQL 65 question

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

I have an old Dell PE4100 box that finally fell over, the PERC card, at
least, apparently dead.  One drive out of a 3-drive RAID5 set may also
be bad.  The only thing the box did was run SQL 6.5 and a couple of old
databases that could not be moved.  The box had gotten so bad that a
backup out of SQL no longer worked.  So what I'd been doing was stopping
the services every so often and just copying out the raw .DAT files from
the database.

With the box completely dead, however, the .DAT files turn out not be
very convenient to work with, in fact I haven't found yet the
combination that will allow me to reacquire the DBs and mount them.  So
what I'm wondering is whether you know a really good (and probably old)
SQL 65 guy who could give me a hand with this?

Thanks,

David
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RE: dns reports

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

www.dnsstuff.com -- I think we only paid about $45 or so for their basic
toolkit.
 
David
 



From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: dns reports



Anyone have a site besides dnsreport.com ? they moved their single use
ip lookup tool to pay only which would be fine but they want 80 bux a
year for the professional toolkit. I just need something similar to the
dnsreport's lookup feature . For something I use about once every few
weeks I don't mind paying a little but 80/yr seems a little much. Im
sure there are downloadable toolkits to do the same thing. Like maybe
Sam Spade and stuff?

 

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RE: Ghost DHCP settings

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

Good standard procedure.  But I've had 2 of these machines just today
that I renewed the DHCP lease early this morning, and by noon they had
picked up that rogue DNS address.  I don't have any wireless devices on
the network.  Is 192.168.1.1 a default for anything else??
 
David
 



From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Ghost DHCP settings


When ever I have to reboot the primary DNS server I always ask all the
staff to reboot their systems.  It usually saves me the trouble that
comes from allowing the systems to re-find the domain and network
resources.
 
Jon


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:05 PM, David Florea, SysAdmin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



By mistake yesterday, both of my DCs were down at the same time.
Of
course, the entire network croaked for a few minutes.  But ever
since
then, several of my machines are picking up a weird DNS setting.
Instead of 192.168.1.15 <http://192.168.1.15/>  and .5, they are
showing 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1/>  for a DNS
server, and therefore have great trouble seeing network
resources.  I've
doublechecked the DHCP scope and server options, they're
correct.  I
don't even have a 1.1 network address on my system.  Where the
heck is
that coming from?  I've even had a couple of machines pick it up
again a
couple of hours after I've done a /release and /renew.

Thanks,

David
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Ghost DHCP settings

[David Florea, SysAdmin]

 
By mistake yesterday, both of my DCs were down at the same time.  Of
course, the entire network croaked for a few minutes.  But ever since
then, several of my machines are picking up a weird DNS setting.
Instead of 192.168.1.15 and .5, they are showing 192.168.1.1 for a DNS
server, and therefore have great trouble seeing network resources.  I've
doublechecked the DHCP scope and server options, they're correct.  I
don't even have a 1.1 network address on my system.  Where the heck is
that coming from?  I've even had a couple of machines pick it up again a
couple of hours after I've done a /release and /renew.

Thanks,

David
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