Re: USB NICs latest compatibility?

2011-10-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Bob on 10/11/2011 1:31 AM, wrote: I have a cheap $5 A1pro KY-AX88772A on which the chipset is labelled ASIX AX88772ALF so far it's worked with everything I've plugged it into has been invaluable for installing the binary blob Ethernet or WiFi firmware onto some computers I put my squeeze or

USB NICs latest compatibility?

2011-10-10 Thread Adam Hardy
I just wanted to ask quickly before I order a USB NIC: are there any major issues with USB NICs with Squeeze? I have a great little machine that is only the size of a box of chocolates and it only has one NIC, so to make it into a gateway machine for my LAN, I'll need a NIC on a USB

Re: USB NICs latest compatibility?

2011-10-10 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 10/10/2011 5:33 PM, wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:45:15 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I just wanted to ask quickly before I order a USB NIC: are there any major issues with USB NICs with Squeeze? I'd say that, as always happens in such situations, chipset is the key. I have a great

Re: flash crashes when switching to full screen mode in iceweasel and chrome

2010-12-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 04/12/10 10:11, wrote: On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:48:51 +, Adam Hardy wrote: I recently upgraded my libflashplayer package and since then I can't maximize any flash video to full screen - it just takes out iceweasel completely. (...) What version are you running? You can try

flash crashes when switching to full screen mode in iceweasel and chrome

2010-12-03 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi All, it looks like this has happened to a few people but I haven't found any fix which works. I recently upgraded my libflashplayer package and since then I can't maximize any flash video to full screen - it just takes out iceweasel completely. The same with chrome - but the browser

dhclient3 fetching NIC IP for gateway machine from DSL modem

2010-11-17 Thread Adam Hardy
I've got a weird problem that I always thought must be my hardware but I replaced the hardware and it's continuing. My gateway lenny box hooks up my LAN to the broadband using dhclient3 to fetch the external IP address from the DSL modem. The second NIC is the internal LAN so it's irrelevant,

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-26 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 26/10/10 07:04, wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:37:44 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 25/10/10 11:04, wrote: Seriously slightly quirky, but now it's better than windows again, which is the way it should be. The only thing it could make a difference between Windows tracert

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-26 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 26/10/10 16:52, wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:29:25 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:22:26 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message: Now hop 2 is identified. Question is why is that pause needed? ..too big load on that hop? Could slow it too much for our

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 25/10/10 07:51, wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:54:51 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 21:21, wrote: (...) Okay, okay... let's add more magic: traceroute -I -n mktgw1.ibllc.com No name resolve but all the hosts are there (and is very quick) :-) Haha! You can guess

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 25/10/10 11:04, wrote: The potion can be improved to get a closer mimic of the windows tracert: traceroute -I -z 500 mktgw1.ibllc.com (1 second generates much delay, by reducing to 500ms we can leave the 3 stantard queries without hassle) Seriously slightly quirky, but now it's

basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-24 Thread Adam Hardy
I asked this before in a thread but the thread just sort of skirting around it - basically what is the ping option to get the last hop to show up doing ping on lenny, compared to the ping from the LAN on a windows box? This is what I mean: a...@isengard:~/tmp$ sudo traceroute mktgw1.ibllc.com

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 24/10/10 19:50, wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:40:28 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I asked this before in a thread but the thread just sort of skirting around it - basically what is the ping option to get the last hop to show up doing ping on lenny, compared to the ping from the LAN

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 24/10/10 21:21, wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:30:51 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 19:50, wrote: The magic is done when using -I flag. Try: traceroute -I mktgw1.ibllc.com I played around with -I and -T and didn't get any better results, which is why I thought

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 24/10/10 21:55, wrote: On 10/24/2010 02:30 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 19:50, wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:40:28 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I asked this before in a thread but the thread just sort of skirting around it - basically what is the ping option to get

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 24/10/10 22:56, wrote: On 10/24/2010 03:54 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 21:21, wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:30:51 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 19:50, wrote: The magic is done when using -I flag. Try: traceroute -I mktgw1.ibllc.com I played

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 19/10/10 23:16, wrote: My version of traceroute also has the --mtu option, which tries to determine the MTU for the route being traced. It looks perhaps like the firewall for interactivebrokers (IP 208.192.181.62) *may* be blocking too many ICMP control message types - including

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 20/10/10 11:45, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination TCPMSS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:SYN,RST/SYN TCPMSS set 1460 So you're clamping TCPMSS

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 18/10/10 13:15, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I tried lowering the MTU to 1400 but it made no difference. So ping -s 1372 failed? I thought you said it worked up to -s 1472 (packets of 1500 bytes)? When you drop your MTU to 1400, that means that your

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular loses 15% of pings: 213.120.176.62 Maybe

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular loses 15% of pings: 213.120.176.62 Maybe

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 12:46, wrote: On 10/19/2010 04:30 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 19/10/10 16:24, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a question about traceroute that might be relevant. I haven't figured out the traceroute options because on lenny, my traceroute doesn't complete. The last hop to mktgw1.ibllc.com doesn't show - it just

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 17/10/10 23:08, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: Thanks for all the info. I guess it tells me there's nothing definitely wrong. MTU is a per-link value, and the smallest MTU determines the MTU for all hops that the packet travels between client and server

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Morgan Gangwere on 16/10/10 21:14, wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100 Adam Hardy wrote: [stuff] Nope you're not the only one: ( 4:~ )%ping -s 1473 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 1473(1501) bytes of data. ^C --- 208.245.107.9 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Anticept . on 16/10/10 21:20, wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. Their support is blaming

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Morgan Gangwere on 16/10/10 21:14, wrote: ( 7:~ )%ping 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 208.245.107.9: icmp_req=1 ttl=118 time=150 ms 64 bytes from 208.245.107.9: icmp_req=2 ttl=118 time=147 ms 64 bytes from 208.245.107.9: icmp_req=3 ttl=118

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Morgan Gangwere on 16/10/10 21:14, wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100 Adam Hardy wrote: [stuff] Nope you're not the only one: ( 4:~ )%ping -s 1473 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 1473(1501) bytes of data. ^C --- 208.245.107.9 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Anticept . on 16/10/10 21:20, wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. Their support is blaming

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
ow...@netptc.net on 17/10/10 16:30, wrote: I thought I knew enough to keep my own home LAN going but I'm stuck on this one and I can't work out what to do next. In fact I thought everything was fine until I tried pinging with big packet sizes. ping -s 1472 www.bbc.co.uk ping -s 1472

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 17/10/10 13:02, wrote: I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. Their support is blaming the problem on me. I cannot load that site (208.245.107.9) on a web browser :-?

ddclient caught sigterm

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
This seems to be different from the ddclient caught sigterm that crops up quite a lot on google. I just installed ddclient and at some points (haven't figured out when or why) it works. I have it configured pretty much as its deb package wants it to be, although I added a couple of lines.

ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Adam Hardy
I thought I knew enough to keep my own home LAN going but I'm stuck on this one and I can't work out what to do next. In fact I thought everything was fine until I tried pinging with big packet sizes. ping -s 1472 www.bbc.co.uk ping -s 1472 208.245.107.9 works fine, no packet loss ever. ping

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-09 Thread Adam Hardy
James Brown on 08/10/10 08:11, wrote: Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? You can disable IPv6 system-wide by editing your module configuration file. This is usually one of /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/aliases, depending on your distro. Remove any

Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread Adam Hardy
Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation flags. I have two software apps which are meant to be interacting with each other and with servers on the net, but they aren't and they aren't giving me much to go on, and their

Re: Disable IPv6

2010-10-07 Thread Adam Hardy
James Brown on 07/10/10 15:52, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Just a quick question - can I disable IPv6 for my whole machine? I mean apart from changing some kernel compilation flags. I have two software apps which are meant to be interacting with each other and with servers on the net

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrei Popescu on 18/09/10 07:17, wrote: On Sb, 18 sep 10, 01:21:32, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 17. 09. 2010 23:12:29 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): Just out of curiosity, how would you tell you haven't lost e-mail? Assumptions that the sender will retry do not count[1] ;) Dead simple -- accompany

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-12 Thread Adam Hardy
James Stuckey on 12/09/10 17:12, wrote: the plug-ins listed. I installed: Adblock Plus 1.2.1, FlagFox 4.0.8, Flashblock 1.5.13, FlashGot 1.2, Leo Search 1.0.0, NoScript 1.9.8.69, and Readability 1.1. Some of these I installed with aptitude and the ones that weren't I installed through

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 11/09/10 10:17, wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:32:43 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system that stops it playing DVDs. xine pops up a message saying that source seems encrypted and can't be read I haven't done anything

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
hugo vanwoerkom on 11/09/10 15:52, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system that stops it playing DVDs. xine pops up a message saying that source seems encrypted and can't be read When I got that message I installed libdvdcss2

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 11/09/10 11:18, wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 11/09/10 10:17, wrote: Have you tested it with another DVD media and (just in case) using another multimedia player? Yes. I have a DVD that is unprotected and that plays fine. Well, I

Re: xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 11/09/10 11:18, wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I should think it's not actually xine itself causing the problem, but rather something deeper in the media set-up. Try to play protected DVD with another player that has its own implementation

xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Hardy
I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system that stops it playing DVDs. xine pops up a message saying that source seems encrypted and can't be read I haven't done anything to the PC config recently except install updates for lenny. I de-installed and purged the

mount USB drive read-write but only got read-only so far

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Hardy
I have a couple of questions about mounting and writing to a USB drive. I bought a 1Tb Western Digital 'Passport' HDD that powers itself from the USB, so just one cable to plug in. I want to use it to back up both my Debian box and my girlfriend's Mac which uses Time Machine. I let the Time

Re: mount USB drive read-write but only got read-only so far

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 15/08/10 15:56, wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:23:25 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: (...) It seems most people have other problems with Time Machine back-ups like just reading them at all or creating them, and I haven't found anybody talking about what I can do to share the hard drive

Re: microphone

2010-05-26 Thread Adam Hardy
deloptes on 26/05/10 17:09, wrote: yes I could think of it. it changes for me if I set the input mic to the Front Mic (it depends on your card). You mentioned the mic on your usb is working, then it is a setting in your mixer that tells alsa to grab from the usb mic. amixer ... ... ... Simple

Re: microphone

2010-05-26 Thread Adam Hardy
deloptes on 26/05/10 19:19, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: It was muted. Ha! Discovered that in alsamixer eventually. Couldn't make sense of amixer output - is it reading the same config as alsamixer? It's got to be, right? In amixer it's not that obvious Alsamixer has a column for line, cd

Re: microphone

2010-05-26 Thread Adam Hardy
deloptes on 27/05/10 01:07, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I'm trying to pick this stuff up but I find the amixer man page quite obtuse, and I'm not finding an alsa-oriented website that's any better either. so you don't thinks this page is informative enough? http://www.alsa-project.org/main

microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
This has got to be a simple question: I have a sound card and I've just plugged in a microphone that I want to test (not USB obviously). Is there an easy program I can install onto lenny/xfce that I can use to test it? I just tried with bplay but it wants me to have /dev/dsp which I haven't

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Claudius Hubig on 25/05/10 12:37, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: This has got to be a simple question: I have a sound card and I've just plugged in a microphone that I want to test (not USB obviously). Is there an easy program I can install onto lenny/xfce that I can use

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Anand Sivaram on 25/05/10 15:35, wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 18:29, Jasper rj...@xs4all.nl arecord|aplay then play with the sliders in alsamixer. :) --Jasper. I also suggest the same. arecord | aplay arecord could be used to record wave files also.. I can't get a

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 25/05/10 15:54, wrote: Anand Sivaram on 25/05/10 15:35, wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 18:29, Jasper rj...@xs4all.nl arecord|aplay then play with the sliders in alsamixer. :) --Jasper. I also suggest the same. arecord | aplay arecord could be used to record

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Jasper on 25/05/10 17:38, wrote: You have more than one sound-device in your system. Maybe this helps: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/ALSA_device_labels Surely my microphone input should be listed? a...@isengard:~$ arecord -L default:CARD=Intel HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog Default

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
deloptes on 25/05/10 19:36, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: 3 steps to find out and test a microphone on linux with alsa 1) find out cards and inputs 3) so no we can test the mic shell arecord -c1 -Dplughw:2,0 -f cd -vv /dev/null Hmm, the only one that worked was the USB mic: a...@isengard:~$ cat

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
deloptes on 25/05/10 21:09, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: arecord -Dplughw:0,1 |aplay I just also see that you are not using the command as suggested by me -f cd -vv /dev/null regards er yes. sorry, figured i could either look up what that did or just leave it out, so I chose to leave

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Karl Vogel on 17/05/10 02:44, wrote: http://www.hcst.net/~vogelke/src/ishostup/ These scripts are good for exactly one thing: sending me (or someone) a message if a given piece of hardware at a given IP address stops responding for more than a minute or so. They rely on fping and regular

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Monique Y. Mudama on 17/05/10 23:06, wrote: On Fri, May 14 at 14:26, Adam Hardy penned: Actually the more I think about it, the more I realise that I would rather have some kind of full blooded monitoring app which lets me see stats (or even charts like ntop) of internet speed over the week

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Merciadri Luca on 14/05/10 11:31, wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/13/2010 06:28 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself because I can't find anything useful looking out there, but I thought I'd ask before I try (or perhaps before I procrastinate

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 14/05/10 12:54, wrote: On 05/14/2010 06:32 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Merciadri Luca on 14/05/10 11:31, wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/13/2010 06:28 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself because I can't find anything useful looking

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 14/05/10 14:13, wrote: Ron Johnson on 14/05/10 12:54, wrote: On 05/14/2010 06:32 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Merciadri Luca on 14/05/10 11:31, wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/13/2010 06:28 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
ow...@netptc.net on 14/05/10 15:06, wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:28:54AM +0100, Adam Hardy uttered: I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself because I can't find anything useful looking out there, but I thought I'd ask before I try (or perhaps before I

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 14/05/10 20:46, wrote: On 05/14/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] Isn't this what SNMP was designed for? There was probably a lot more that it was designed for. Plus one of the first things to appear in google: Despite its acronym, SNMP is not exactly simple! In fact

monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-13 Thread Adam Hardy
I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself because I can't find anything useful looking out there, but I thought I'd ask before I try (or perhaps before I procrastinate again): I have a machine here at home running some 24x5 programs which I really need to keep up and

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 08/02/10 22:19, wrote: Ken Teague on 08/02/10 18:45, wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: a...@isengard:~$ nslookup www.trade2win.com - 194.74.65.68 Server: 194.74.65.68 Address:194.74.65.68#53 ** server can't find

init.d boot scripts management

2010-02-10 Thread Adam Hardy
I just searched all over the web and didn't find out what programs are available to manage the lenny init.d scripts. I used to use sysvconfig but that's gone presumably as part of a transition to the new boot management framework. I'm using xfce but it doesn't seem that offers anything

Re: init.d boot scripts management

2010-02-10 Thread Adam Hardy
Tom H on 10/02/10 14:03, wrote: I just searched all over the web and didn't find out what programs are available to manage the lenny init.d scripts. I used to use sysvconfig but that's gone presumably as part of a transition to the new boot management framework. Still exists in Lenny

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-08 Thread Adam Hardy
Ken Teague on 08/02/10 18:45, wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: a...@isengard:~$ nslookup www.trade2win.com - 194.74.65.68 Server: 194.74.65.68 Address:194.74.65.68#53 ** server can't find www.trade2win.com: NXDOMAIN I ran

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-07 Thread Adam Hardy
Ken Teague on 06/02/10 03:41, wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: It is running dnsmasq. It's a gateway and firewall with two NICs, one for the net and one for the LAN. My assistance at this point will be rather limited, as I've never used

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Reposting with the issue recapped: I cannot surf this particular public website from my LAN. Is it my DNS or my what, I don't know. 75% of the time with my normal setup I get address not found when surfing it. This is some diagnostics I was doing: a...@isengard:~$ host www.trade2win.com

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 05/02/10 18:56, wrote: On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:42:09 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Reposting with the issue recapped: I cannot surf this particular public website from my LAN. Is it my DNS or my what, I don't know. (...) The intermittent nature of the problem is puzzling me too

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Lisi on 05/02/10 21:54, wrote: On Friday 05 February 2010 20:40:01 Adam Hardy wrote: It's a British-audience website and my ISP is British Telecom, so it's unlikely to be something like ISP routing tables s/likely/unlikely??? Or have you contact with a second firm called BT that I

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Ken Teague on 05/02/10 23:42, wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: and finally my resolv.conf (rewritten by dhcp.client when picking up IP address from the DSL modem): a...@isengard:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain localdomain search localdomain

Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

2010-02-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Marc Olive on 04/02/10 13:00, wrote: El Thursday 04 February 2010 13:26:55 Sthu Deus va escriure: Good day. Hello, Is there a tool by which, I can amplify gain to 0 db of every wav/flac There's normalize-audio that might help. It depends on what he means by amplify gain

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 31/01/10 10:04, wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:16:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Klistvud on 30/01/10 23:48, wrote: Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running fine out there - I just can't access

abcde and flac cue sheets

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hardy
I've got a problem with abcde. I'm trying to rip a whole CD to a flac file with embedded cue sheet, and this is what happens: flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 31/01/10 12:27, wrote: Florian Kulzer on 31/01/10 10:04, wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:16:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Klistvud on 30/01/10 23:48, wrote: Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-01-31 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 31/01/10 10:04, wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:16:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Klistvud on 30/01/10 23:48, wrote: Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running fine out there - I just can't access

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-01-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Charlie on 30/01/10 02:42, wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:21:50 + Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com shared this with us all: I'm mystified by this error on one website http://www.trade2win.com/ error= Address not found All other websites can be browsed fine - at least I can browse

Re: one website gives address not found from LAN

2010-01-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Klistvud on 30/01/10 23:48, wrote: Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running fine out there - I just can't access it from my LAN. From my mobile phone, fine. But not from my lan. You've checked all the usual

one website gives address not found

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm mystified by this error on one website http://www.trade2win.com/ error= Address not found All other websites can be browsed fine - at least I can browse everything OK and send and receive emails. The machine's a gateway server and runs iptables but I've checked that it makes no difference

webcam in skype ok but not in gimp

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Hardy
I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire /

Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Hardy
godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't

Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Hardy
randall on 28/01/10 14:16, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp

tomcat apache2 connector on lenny

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Hardy
I am setting up apache2 with to connect to tomcat, on lenny, using the packages available in the lenny repo. I installed libapache2-mod-jk and I'm following the documentation there and grabbing what info I can find from google. So I think I have everything pretty much configured right in line

two local networks

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Hardy
I know this must be obvious to anyone who does this all the time, but I can't figure it out and following a googling session I ended up trashing my network, so I figured I'd better ask. I am trying to install a Belkin wireless print server and it's got a web interface factory setting on

Re: two local networks

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Robert David on 25/01/10 14:51, wrote: Hi First: Why cant you set the printer to apply your local network. Just set some computer in the local network with static addres 192.168.2.x, connect to printer administration console and set it up. Second: If it cannot be set. Try to extend your

Re: two local networks

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Jochen Schulz on 25/01/10 14:46, wrote: Adam Hardy: I am trying to install a Belkin wireless print server and it's got a web interface factory setting on 192.168.2.253 which I currently can't browse with my setup as it is (request timed out). I'm working on my LAN's gateway server, which

Re: two local networks

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Jochen Schulz on 25/01/10 16:28, wrote: Adam Hardy: Jochen Schulz on 25/01/10 14:46, wrote: # route add -host 192.168.2.253 eth0 OK grand, with that route cmd, I can access the printer server. One more question - where should I put this in the gateway's networking setup to make it permanent

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Stan Hoeppner on 25/01/10 02:08, wrote: Adam Hardy put forth on 1/24/2010 7:15 PM: Adam Hardy on 21/01/10 17:36, wrote: Camaleón on 21/01/10 16:27, wrote: The point is that I don't want to have port 25 open to the world, since I don't want to receive any emails on this system, I just want

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 21/01/10 17:36, wrote: Camaleón on 21/01/10 16:27, wrote: The point is that I don't want to have port 25 open to the world, since I don't want to receive any emails on this system, I just want to send. [snipped] That is the standard setup for Postfix. But that does not mean your

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Alex Samad on 21/01/10 02:10, wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:16AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Alex Samad on 21/01/10 00:30, wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:01:01AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 20/01/10 21:30, wrote: inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40, localhost

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Joe on 21/01/10 10:42, wrote: Exim4 will use port 25 as a source port when sending, but that is independent of the local interface setting. Really? I thought applications just opened random high-numbered ports for outbound traffic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port [was trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP]

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 21/01/10 12:29, wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:01:01 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 20/01/10 21:30, wrote: inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40, localhost *** master_service_disable=smtp.inet And what is that parameter for? :-? Ah, you wanted to disable smtp connections at all

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 21/01/10 11:13, wrote: Alex Samad on 21/01/10 02:10, wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:16AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Alex Samad on 21/01/10 00:30, wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:01:01AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 20/01/10 21:30, wrote: inet_interfaces

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
I have set up postfix to listen as below using: inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40 a...@ecocore:~$ netstat -an |grep -i listen tcp0 0 10.20.30.40:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN *** I am not allowed to open it on 127.0.0.1 due to my vserver hosting rules. The point is that I don't want

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 21/01/10 15:44, wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:45:25 +, Adam Hardy wrote: I have set up postfix to listen as below using: inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40 a...@ecocore:~$ netstat -an |grep -i listen tcp0 0 10.20.30.40:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN *** I am

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI on 21/01/10 16:12, wrote: On Qui, 21 Jan 2010, Adam Hardy wrote: All I'm saying is that I don't need this, and I'd like to find a way to shut it down whilst leaving the outbound mail delivery intact. Since you've eliminated listening on the loopback interface only

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 21/01/10 16:27, wrote: The point is that I don't want to have port 25 open to the world, since I don't want to receive any emails on this system, I just want to send. [snipped] That is the standard setup for Postfix. But that does not mean your host is an acting as an open relay.

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrei Popescu on 21/01/10 17:54, wrote: On Wed,20.Jan.10, 23:58:35, Adam Hardy wrote: Not allowed to do that - apparently it would foobar the local network where the host server of my vserver sits. I've got to use the public IP address if I configure this, but I'd feel happier if I didn't

Re: trying to restrict postfix use of port

2010-01-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 21/01/10 20:04, wrote: A mail server has to listen at least in loopback:25 so it can receive and process e-mails internally, coming from the host itself. Aha. Now we get to the crux of the matter. Is it a feature of SMTP itself, that it cannot send an email without port 25

trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-20 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm installing stuff onto a vserver which I have just got, and according to the sysadmin at the hosting provider, due to their set-up, I can't configure exim to listen on 127.0.0.1, I have to use the given IP address. In case that doesn't make sense, I mean that I am not supposed to get this

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