Re: [CentOS] DNS forwarding vs recursion

2013-04-01 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:29 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/28/2013 11:11 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 03/28/2013 02:05 PM, John R Pierce wrote: is it as simple as adding allow-recursion{} with the appropriate private subnets and localhost to named.conf ? Yes. That's basically it. k,

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS support dual graphics cards with 2 monitors each?

2013-04-01 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:58, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Nouveau supports dual monitors on a single card just fine. Yes, I have no problems with this either and have most of my users running with two monitors and the nouveau driver. But I'm trying to set up one user with 4 monitors now. This morning

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-04-01 Thread Robert Benjamin
On 3/31/2013 12:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Robert Benjamin benj...@cox.net wrote: WELL, I don't know what to say. I just put the HD in the PC turned it on and was waiting for the blue screen so I could login as root and type 'init 3'. BUT, guess what

Re: [CentOS] DNS forwarding vs recursion

2013-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.com wrote: It's the the job of your security perimeter firewalls to filter local vrs foreign packets and on-session vrs unsolicited packets. You say that as though everyone has such tools. Or that they are such an integrated

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-04-01 Thread m . roth
Robert Benjamin wrote: On 3/31/2013 12:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Robert Benjamin benj...@cox.net wrote: WELL, I don't know what to say. I just put the HD in the PC turned it on and was waiting for the blue screen so I could login as root and type

Re: [CentOS] DNS forwarding vs recursion

2013-04-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/1/2013 6:11 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: it's also very important to implement BCP (Best Common Practice) 38. BCP 38 recommends router egress filtering. That is, you only route out what will route back in. That prevents you (or any of your customers) from being a spoofing source. of

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-04-01 Thread Robert Benjamin
On 4/1/2013 2:07 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Benjamin wrote: On 3/31/2013 12:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Robert Benjamin benj...@cox.net wrote: WELL, I don't know what to say. I just put the HD in the PC turned it on and was waiting for the

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:07 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As I may have said, everyone I know in computers has a number of books from this publisher - he specializes in not only finding people who really, really know their subject, but CAN ALSO COMMUNICATE WHAT THEY KNOW (as opposed to, say,

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-04-01 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 13:44 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Robert Benjamin benj...@cox.net wrote: snip Yes, installs that include X and a desktop will default to runlevel 5. Before trying 'startx' , do 'init 3' as root. That should shut down the existing

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-04-01 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:07 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As I may have said, everyone I know in computers has a number of books from this publisher - he specializes in not only finding people who really, really know their subject, but CAN ALSO COMMUNICATE WHAT THEY KNOW

[CentOS] Don't understand how to re-partition this setup or why it was made like this

2013-04-01 Thread Yves S. Garret
Hello, I did df -h on my CentOS 6.4 machine. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_ysg-lv_root 47G 8.8G 36G 20% / tmpfs 948M 372K 947M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 62M 398M 14% /boot

Re: [CentOS] DNS forwarding vs recursion

2013-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.com wrote: Actually, it's pretty easy with netfilter / iptables. Other firewalls like pf filter on *BSD an proprietary work similar. If you know your inside networks you merely add a rule to block incoming packets on your

Re: [CentOS] Don't understand how to re-partition this setup or why it was made like this

2013-04-01 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 04/01/2013 09:00 PM, Yves S. Garret wrote: Hello, I did df -h on my CentOS 6.4 machine. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_ysg-lv_root 47G 8.8G 36G 20% / tmpfs 948M 372K 947M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 62M 398M 14%

Re: [CentOS] DNS forwarding vs recursion

2013-04-01 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 11:17 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 4/1/2013 6:11 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: it's also very important to implement BCP (Best Common Practice) 38. BCP 38 recommends router egress filtering. That is, you only route out what will route back in. That prevents you

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:46 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I don't' know anything about this book or publisher, but you really Les, you don't know O'Reilly? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. Almost every programmer I know, and every admin, had somewhere between one O'Reilly book and a full

Re: [CentOS] Don't understand how to re-partition this setup or why it was made like this

2013-04-01 Thread Yves S. Garret
Hi, thanks for your response. One more question. Would I need to have logical volumes or can I get away with having one massive volume/partition and then have everything on that one partition? In the interim I'll have a directory in / that I can use to just dump stuff in and will rebuild my

Re: [CentOS] Don't understand how to re-partition this setup or why it was made like this

2013-04-01 Thread m . roth
Yves S. Garret wrote: Hi, thanks for your response. One more question. Would I need to have logical volumes or can I get away with having one massive volume/partition and then have everything on that one partition? In the interim I'll have a directory in / that I can use to just dump

Re: [CentOS] DNS forwarding vs recursion

2013-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.com wrote: AFA how BIND should be shipped... Last time I looked (just a couple of days ago) BIND ships in a fairly secure manner (local caching resolver listening on localhost only) and the default IP tables blocks DNS queries

Re: [CentOS] Don't understand how to re-partition this setup or why it was made like this

2013-04-01 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-04-01, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_ysg-lv_root 47G 8.8G 36G 20% / tmpfs 948M 372K 947M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 62M 398M

Re: [CentOS] Don't understand how to re-partition this setup or why it was made like this

2013-04-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/1/2013 12:00 PM, Yves S. Garret wrote: What I don't understand is why is /home so tiny and how can I re-partition this without having to nuke and rebuild my machine? what do you get from # vgs ? if there's VFree, you can lvextend the backing LV behind /home, then grow the file

[CentOS] [Possibly OT] - General question: state of internet traffic

2013-04-01 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've read reports that there has been degradation in Internet traffic over the last month. Until today, I haven't experienced any. However, getting bank record data from chase.com here in NYC seems impossible. I also noticed erratic ftp behavior today; connections can be made but

Re: [CentOS] [Possibly OT] - General question: state of internet traffic

2013-04-01 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 18:04 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I've read reports that there has been degradation in Internet traffic over the last month. Until today, I haven't experienced any. However, getting bank record data from chase.com here in NYC seems impossible. /me trying not to

Re: [CentOS] [Possibly OT] - General question: state of internet traffic

2013-04-01 Thread Stephen Harris
the last month. Until today, I haven't experienced any. However, getting bank record data from chase.com here in NYC seems impossible. What do you mean by getting bank record data ? Every major US bank is under a constant DoS attack, which sometimes causes the sites to be slow. This is

Re: [CentOS] Can't find root device with lvm root after moving drive on CentOS 6.3

2013-04-01 Thread Joakim Ziegler
On 30/03/13 7:18, Joakim Ziegler wrote: On 29/03/13 10:38, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/29/2013 01:23 AM, Joakim Ziegler wrote: Immediately after getting dropped to rdshell, I looked around in /dev, which brought me a few surprises... /dev/mapper contains only control, that is,

[CentOS] Vsftpd configuration problem

2013-04-01 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, Beginning today, I started to receive the following when ftp'ing to my CentOS 6 machine: ncftp /home/pyz2 dir connect failed: No route to host. connect failed: No route to host. connect failed: No route to host. Falling back to PORT instead of PASV mode. I can make a connection,

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd configuration problem

2013-04-01 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.04.2013 01:12, schrieb Max Pyziur: Beginning today, I started to receive the following when ftp'ing to my CentOS 6 machine: ncftp /home/pyz2 dir connect failed: No route to host. connect failed: No route to host. connect failed: No route to

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd configuration problem

2013-04-01 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, lists-centos wrote: Original Message Date: Monday, April 01, 2013 07:12:53 PM -0400 From: Max Pyziur p...@brama.com To: centos@centos.org Cc: Subject: [CentOS] Vsftpd configuration problem Greetings, Beginning today, I started to receive

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd configuration problem - followup

2013-04-01 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.04.2013 01:12, schrieb Max Pyziur: Beginning today, I started to receive the following when ftp'ing to my CentOS 6 machine: ncftp /home/pyz2 dir connect failed: No route to host. connect failed: No route to host. connect failed: No route to

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd configuration problem

2013-04-01 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.04.2013 01:25, schrieb Max Pyziur: On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.04.2013 01:12, schrieb Max Pyziur: Beginning today, I started to receive the following when ftp'ing to my CentOS 6 machine: ncftp /home/pyz2 dir connect

[CentOS] [SOLVED] it was an iptables-config setting, was Re: Vsftpd configuration problem

2013-04-01 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.04.2013 02:04, schrieb Max Pyziur: [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config # Load additional iptables modules (nat helpers) # Default: -none- # Space separated list of nat helpers (e.g. 'ip_nat_ftp ip_nat_irc'), which # are

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd configuration problem

2013-04-01 Thread Banyan He
Hi Max, It looks like a network issue instead of the software. Falling back to PORT sounds like to ACTIVE mode from PASV mode. In PASV, you will be connecting to a random port told by server with a random port from your side. Do you have a firewall to block such traffic that the system will

[CentOS] Repartitioning issues - advice needed, and info.

2013-04-01 Thread Bruce Whealton
Hello all, I have a couple problems with two Centos installs. One is my Dedicated hosting plan. I have been trying very hard to build some strong skills in system administration because the task apparently is more complex than I imagined... or it appeared that way to a web developer, who

Re: [CentOS] Repartitioning issues - advice needed, and info.

2013-04-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/1/2013 5:54 PM, Bruce Whealton wrote: Not it is the /etc partition that is full every other day. It is a 10GB partition and most of the data is in the mail spool directories. the /etc directory A) shouldn't be a separate partition, it should be on / and B) should just contain system