victim of stealthy rootkit

2001-04-09 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, A persistent joker attacked me with lion, ramen, and I trojan I still haven't found. I fired-up the free ID-scripts from SANS; did a whole lot of combing the filesystems; done away with cgi-bin; retained only root and my account as /bin/bash; and uninstalling everything except

victim of stealthy rootkit

2001-04-09 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, A persistent joker attacked me with lion, ramen, and I trojan I still haven't found. I fired-up the free ID-scripts from SANS; did a whole lot of combing the filesystems; done away with cgi-bin; retained only root and my account as /bin/bash; and uninstalling everything except

Postfix name service errors

2001-04-04 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, My users and I often can't send mail, and when we do, it's after many tries. Lately, this particular error is perpetually on /var/log/maillog: Apr 4 21:24:23 bonifacio postfix/smtp[5692]: E9E591B651: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=1238, status=deferred (Name service error

Re: Postfix name service errors

2001-04-04 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, Thanks for the immediate response, Alson. maybe the dns servers named in /etc/resolv.conf often fail? I added our upstream name servers to our own so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. looks like someting to do with failing dns lookups... Probably, but it http lookups have no problem

Postfix name service errors

2001-04-04 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, My users and I often can't send mail, and when we do, it's after many tries. Lately, this particular error is perpetually on /var/log/maillog: Apr 4 21:24:23 bonifacio postfix/smtp[5692]: E9E591B651: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=1238, status=deferred (Name service error

Re: Postfix name service errors

2001-04-04 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, Thanks for the immediate response, Alson. maybe the dns servers named in /etc/resolv.conf often fail? I added our upstream name servers to our own so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. looks like someting to do with failing dns lookups... Probably, but it http lookups have no problem

Re: broken postfix

2000-05-31 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, I just want to wrap up this thread and say thanks for everybody’s help. It turns out that we had an unpaid balance at Network Solutions and to further complicate the problem, we've moved our office to a new location last April and the billing contact's (the owner of this ISP) e-mail

broken postfix, help me

2000-05-27 Thread Erik Abella
Hello All, I'm at my wit's end trying to troubleshoot this problem and as you can see, I'm writing from hotmail because postfix is acting up and noone is able to receive mail. I'm also suspicious of my DNS server as I have updated my mx records vi webmin. Could this have affected my mail

Re: broken postfix, help me

2000-05-27 Thread Erik Abella
Hi, Thanks for the quick response. What is the host name you are on? 203.176.36.5 bonifaciobonifacio.centinet.com And as I see it, your users are not able to send mail out to certain domains, but you mention noone is able to recieve. Please clarify. Well after a session of updating MX

Re: Postfix/DNS

2000-05-27 Thread Erik Abella
Hi, I'm also suspicious of my DNS server as I have updated my mx records vi webmin. Could this have affected my mail server? 'nslookup' should be able to tell you if the DNS server is working properly. It should be able to resolve ipadd-name, name-ipaddr. this is output from nslookup [EMAIL

Re: broken postfix, help me

2000-05-27 Thread Erik Abella
Hello, Since: Network Solutions says your name servers are: MAKISIG.IPHIL.NET203.176.28.130 MAYUMI.IPHIL.NET 203.176.0.2 mayumi.iphil.net refuses to accept querries. And: bonifacio refuses to answer for MX or NS or even A. I suppose all I have to do is get my server