Re: X Security Issues? [SOLVED]

2002-11-20 Thread InfoEmergencias - Luis Gómez
El mié, 20-11-2002 a las 03:35, Edward Guldemond escribió: Actually, I noticed something interesting when I was testing this out on my home box. When I used startx, X didn't listen on TCP. When I used xinit, it did. I guess that xerverrc only gets read when you use startx. IIRC, they

security.debian.org down

2002-11-20 Thread Pieter-Paul Spiertz
Hi, security.debian.org (aka non-us.debian.org aka satie.debian.org) and ftp.snt.utwente.nl are down, due to fire in Twente University. It's not at all lost yet, that would be a major blame. The Surfnet trouble tickets say that All computers in the building have been turned off, that's all - yet.

Unable to connect to security.debian.org

2002-11-20 Thread Jan H. van Gils
Hi, After looking for reasons on why I can't connect to security.debian.org But unable to find one, I ask it in this mailing list. Maybe someone can also give me a mirror site for stable/update Thanks Jan With regards Jan H. van Gils Internet web-page http://www.vgnet.nl/ Internet

security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Richard van den Berg
security.debian.org is hosted by the University of Twente in The Netherlands (www.utwente.nl). Their data center caught fire a few hours ago. As a result their class B (130.89.0.0/16) disappeared from the internet. A news article mentions that most servers and infrastructure has been distroyed.

Re: security.debian.org down

2002-11-20 Thread Pieter-Paul Spiertz
Hi, it has been confirmed that the Twente University server rooms have now completely burned down. This means, {security,non-us,nm,qa}.debian.org and ftp.snt.utwente.nl are now lost. Rest in peace... To translate and summarize http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/13242.phtml: The fire started a little

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Arne Rusek
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:04:46AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: security.debian.org is hosted by the University of Twente in The Netherlands (www.utwente.nl). Their data center caught fire a few hours ago. As a result their class B (130.89.0.0/16) disappeared from the internet. A news

Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread Jan H. van Gils
Hi, Well lets hope that the fire doesn't make and casualties. But the question remains, where is the mirror for security.debain.org ? All the debian related data is mirrored somewhere but the security site can't be found anywhere else ! Is there a reason for this ? Jan With

Re: Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Well lets hope that the fire doesn't make and casualties. From the various news-articles I gather the firesquad doesn't expect them. But the question remains, where is the mirror for security.debain.org ? All the debian related data is mirrored somewhere but the security site can't be

Re: Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread vdongen
Cistron has a mirror of non-us and security on ftp.debian.nl Gr, Ivo -Original Message- From: Jan H. van Gils [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:41:19 +0100 Subject: Mirror Site Security Hi, Well lets hope that the fire doesn't make and casualties. But the question

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Christian Asam
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:04 am, Richard van den Berg wrote: Is it possible to set up a mirror somewhere for the time being? http: and ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de:/pub/linux/debian-security/ is an inofficial/internal mirror of security.debian.org. The last sucessful sync was on the 18th,

Looking for a mirror ?

2002-11-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
We got notified that apparently the security.debian.org server is gone through fire. And ye are looking for a new host. If it's of any use, I can give the security team accounts on ftp.ie.debian.org, which is ftp.heanet.ie. It's a dedicated mirroring machine, has pushed 360Mbit/s at peak and

Re: Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Marcel Hicking wrote: --On Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 11:54 +0100 Thomas J. Zeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] But the question remains, where is the mirror for security.debain.org ? [snip] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US They might've been hosted on

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:04:46AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: security.debian.org Is it possible to set up a mirror somewhere for the time being? ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/debian-security/ is a mirror, too. The question still remains on what will happen for *future* security

Re: Looking for a mirror ?

2002-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: If it's of any use, I can give the security team accounts on ftp.ie.debian.org, which is ftp.heanet.ie. Thanks for the offer, but I do not think we will need it. I expect we will restore the service on klecker.debian.org, which already has all the packages

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:47:24PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:04:46AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: security.debian.org Is it possible to set up a mirror somewhere for the time being? ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/debian-security/ is a mirror, too.

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Andreas
dear all, I also have a own machine and free bandwidth (big ISP - several 155MBits). But I've absolutely no idea how to set up a mirror. Is an anonymous-ftp enough? - If I can give some help to the community I'd like to - but need some advise. best regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian kernel update?

2002-11-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 09:43, Johann Spies wrote: Can we expect something similar from Debian? Or if not, how can we protect our systems in another way? I don't know much about the issues involved, but I have noted that 2.4.20-rc2 is out, and if I understand the changelogs right (which

Re: Debian kernel update?

2002-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:43:43PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Tuesday 19 November 2002 09:43, Johann Spies wrote: Can we expect something similar from Debian? Or if not, how can we protect our systems in another way? I don't know much about the issues involved, but I have noted

Re: Debian kernel update?

2002-11-20 Thread Steve Mickeler
Save yourself the time. Join the linux-kernel-announce announce list. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] body: subscribe linux-kernel-announce On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Tuesday 19 November 2002 09:43, Johann Spies wrote: Can we expect something similar from Debian? Or if

Re: X Security Issues? [SOLVED]

2002-11-20 Thread InfoEmergencias - Luis Gómez
El mié, 20-11-2002 a las 03:35, Edward Guldemond escribió: Actually, I noticed something interesting when I was testing this out on my home box. When I used startx, X didn't listen on TCP. When I used xinit, it did. I guess that xerverrc only gets read when you use startx. IIRC, they

security.debian.org down

2002-11-20 Thread Pieter-Paul Spiertz
Hi, security.debian.org (aka non-us.debian.org aka satie.debian.org) and ftp.snt.utwente.nl are down, due to fire in Twente University. It's not at all lost yet, that would be a major blame. The Surfnet trouble tickets say that All computers in the building have been turned off, that's all - yet.

Unable to connect to security.debian.org

2002-11-20 Thread Jan H. van Gils
Hi, After looking for reasons on why I can't connect to security.debian.org But unable to find one, I ask it in this mailing list. Maybe someone can also give me a mirror site for stable/update Thanks Jan With regards Jan H. van Gils Internet web-page http://www.vgnet.nl/ Internet

Re: Unable to connect to security.debian.org

2002-11-20 Thread Walter van Eijk
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:32:13AM +0100, Jan H. van Gils wrote: Hi, After looking for reasons on why I can't connect to security.debian.org But unable to find one, I ask it in this mailing list. Maybe someone can also give me a mirror site for stable/update Just about 2 minutes

security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Richard van den Berg
security.debian.org is hosted by the University of Twente in The Netherlands (www.utwente.nl). Their data center caught fire a few hours ago. As a result their class B (130.89.0.0/16) disappeared from the internet. A news article mentions that most servers and infrastructure has been distroyed.

Re: security.debian.org down

2002-11-20 Thread Pieter-Paul Spiertz
Hi, it has been confirmed that the Twente University server rooms have now completely burned down. This means, {security,non-us,nm,qa}.debian.org and ftp.snt.utwente.nl are now lost. Rest in peace... To translate and summarize http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/13242.phtml: The fire started a little

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Arne Rusek
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:04:46AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: security.debian.org is hosted by the University of Twente in The Netherlands (www.utwente.nl). Their data center caught fire a few hours ago. As a result their class B (130.89.0.0/16) disappeared from the internet. A news

Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread Jan H. van Gils
Hi, Well lets hope that the fire doesn't make and casualties. But the question remains, where is the mirror for security.debain.org ? All the debian related data is mirrored somewhere but the security site can't be found anywhere else ! Is there a reason for this ? Jan With

Re: Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Well lets hope that the fire doesn't make and casualties. From the various news-articles I gather the firesquad doesn't expect them. But the question remains, where is the mirror for security.debain.org ? All the debian related data is mirrored somewhere but the security site can't be

Re: Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread vdongen
Cistron has a mirror of non-us and security on ftp.debian.nl Gr, Ivo -Original Message- From: Jan H. van Gils [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:41:19 +0100 Subject: Mirror Site Security Hi, Well lets hope that the fire doesn't make and casualties. But the question

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Christian Asam
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:04 am, Richard van den Berg wrote: Is it possible to set up a mirror somewhere for the time being? http: and ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de:/pub/linux/debian-security/ is an inofficial/internal mirror of security.debian.org. The last sucessful sync was on the 18th,

Re: Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread Marcel Hicking
--On Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 11:54 +0100 Thomas J. Zeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well lets hope that the fire doesn't make and casualties. From the various news-articles I gather the firesquad doesn't expect them. But the question remains, where is the mirror for

Looking for a mirror ?

2002-11-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
We got notified that apparently the security.debian.org server is gone through fire. And ye are looking for a new host. If it's of any use, I can give the security team accounts on ftp.ie.debian.org, which is ftp.heanet.ie. It's a dedicated mirroring machine, has pushed 360Mbit/s at peak and

Re: Mirror Site Security

2002-11-20 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Marcel Hicking wrote: --On Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 11:54 +0100 Thomas J. Zeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] But the question remains, where is the mirror for security.debain.org ? [snip] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US They might've been hosted on

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:04:46AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: security.debian.org Is it possible to set up a mirror somewhere for the time being? ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/debian-security/ is a mirror, too. The question still remains on what will happen for *future* security

Re: Looking for a mirror ?

2002-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: If it's of any use, I can give the security team accounts on ftp.ie.debian.org, which is ftp.heanet.ie. Thanks for the offer, but I do not think we will need it. I expect we will restore the service on klecker.debian.org, which already has all the packages

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:47:24PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:04:46AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: security.debian.org Is it possible to set up a mirror somewhere for the time being? ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/debian-security/ is a mirror, too.

Re: security.debian.org down, mirror needed

2002-11-20 Thread Andreas
dear all, I also have a own machine and free bandwidth (big ISP - several 155MBits). But I've absolutely no idea how to set up a mirror. Is an anonymous-ftp enough? - If I can give some help to the community I'd like to - but need some advise. best regards, Andreas

Re: Debian kernel update?

2002-11-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 09:43, Johann Spies wrote: Can we expect something similar from Debian? Or if not, how can we protect our systems in another way? I don't know much about the issues involved, but I have noted that 2.4.20-rc2 is out, and if I understand the changelogs right (which

Re: Debian kernel update?

2002-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:43:43PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Tuesday 19 November 2002 09:43, Johann Spies wrote: Can we expect something similar from Debian? Or if not, how can we protect our systems in another way? I don't know much about the issues involved, but I have noted

Re: Debian kernel update?

2002-11-20 Thread Steve Mickeler
Save yourself the time. Join the linux-kernel-announce announce list. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] body: subscribe linux-kernel-announce On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Tuesday 19 November 2002 09:43, Johann Spies wrote: Can we expect something similar from Debian? Or if