Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:32:08PM +, Pigeon wrote: > I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP > account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because > ukonline requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on, > whereas Waitros

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread nate
Pigeon said: > Please could someone suggest exactly the right questions to ask the ISP, > so I don't have to keep ding-donging emails back and forth, > rebooting from Linux to Windoze all the time cos the Linux box isn't on > line yet? What I would ask: - what terminal se

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP > account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because ukonline > requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on,... Ppp can deal with this. Just select 'Dynamic'

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Can you dial in manually and record the dialog? It's been a long time since I had to do that, but that's how I did it years ago. Patrick On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 at 11:32pm, Pigeon wrote: :I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP :account. I am using this one rath

Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread Pigeon
I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because ukonline requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on, whereas Waitrose has static ones - keep it simple. I have run pppconfig and entered all the

Re: cannot connect to ISP

2002-10-24 Thread ben
- Original Message - > From: "Lorenzo Fini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:47 PM > Subject: cannot connect to ISP > > > after an upgrade from potato to woody I cannot connect to internet by > > my mo

Re: cannot connect to ISP

2002-10-24 Thread Tom
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: cannot connect to ISP > after an upgrade from potato to woody I cannot connect to internet by > my modem any more. > I use pppconfig and pon. The modem make the phone number correctly, > but when it rece

cannot connect to ISP

2002-10-24 Thread Lorenzo Fini
after an upgrade from potato to woody I cannot connect to internet by my modem any more. I use pppconfig and pon. The modem make the phone number correctly, but when it receives 'CONNECT' from the remote the connection is terminated. I tried wvdial/other isp but with the same result.

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Alvin Oga
I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 email >accounts. > I see a lot of anti-virus but they are licensed by user. This is not >compatible for us. > Anyone knows any good anti-virus that is not licensed this way? > Much Thanks,Pa

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:27:27 + Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jamin, > is Open Antivirus mature enough? Like other comercial AV. > TIA,Paulo Henrique > Em Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:12:40 -0500 > Hello, I am by no means a virus ex

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:27:27 + Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is Open Antivirus mature enough? Like other comercial AV. I haven't had a problem with them, YMMV. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Martin Hermanowski
IIRC the F-Secure virus scanner can be licensed by host. HTH Martin On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:15:59PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 email >accounts. > I se

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 > > email accounts. I see a lot of anti-virus but they are licensed by > > user. This is not compatible for us. Anyone knows an

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:15:59 + Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 > email accounts. I see a lot of anti-virus but they are licensed by >

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Victor Julien
Try f-prot, the linux-version is not licensed in this way. See: http://www.f-prot.com/products/fplin.html Victor On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 14:15, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 email

Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 email accounts. I see a lot of anti-virus but they are licensed by user. This is not compatible for us. Anyone knows any good anti-virus that is not licensed this way? Much Thanks

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:25:36PM +0100, Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having set

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. Nothing &g

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 Sep 2002 10:25 pm, Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. >

PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Anna Lawless
Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or the connection is refused by my box. I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. Nothing happens. I'll go back into it to try t

Re: iptables : subnet base and isp settings?

2002-04-23 Thread Vineet Kumar
' here, in the > header setting of the iptables script for a standalone host. > > Example: > > IPADDR="63.144.170.4" # your IP address > SUBNET_BASE="63.144.179.0" # ISP network segment base address > SUBNET_BROADCAST=&

iptables : subnet base and isp settings?

2002-04-23 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
dalone host. Example: IPADDR="63.144.170.4"# your IP address SUBNET_BASE="63.144.179.0" # ISP network segment base address SUBNET_BROADCAST="255.255.255.240" # network segment broadcast address MY_ISP="63.144.170.0/28"

Re: exim not routing through isp

2002-04-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
gt; address resolves against ppp-xxx.3com.telinco.net). > > I have a standard exim setup, except that I use smtp auth to (I > thought!) always send mail through my isp. > > Thanks for any help. > Rory > > Excerpted exim.conf: > > host_accep

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-23 Thread Chris Bayly
> "d" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> Ok, that's cool. Now run IE on Windows on a client behind your d> firewall. Surf to a site running IIS and Nimbda. You've got d> Nimda. Lotta goog the firewall did there. Actually, snort[1] and or ACiD grabs those and flags them...

exim not routing through isp

2002-04-23 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
exim setup, except that I use smtp auth to (I thought!) always send mail through my isp. Thanks for any help. Rory Excerpted exim.conf: host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : 1 host_auth_accept_relay = * trusted_users = mail smtp_verify = true gecos_pattern

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:30:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: | On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:28:17AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | > HELO dontuthink.com | > 250 server Hello 12-235-84-58.client.attbi.com [12.235.84.58] | > MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactica

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin ben quotation: > other guy--and i'm saying this for his benefit even more than yours--is > placing way too much faith in an idea that's all too close to the catholic's > belief in the rhythm method. This is the last thing I'm going to say on this. Quoting "Practical Unix and Internet Sec

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > > You would firewall an ISP's network??? I would switch providers > immediately if my ISP ever did such a thing. No, I would firewall the internal servers off from both the outside world and the customers, opening only the ports each needed to a

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-22 Thread David Smead
that all ports on all hosts are > > visible to the world. To me, this as a fundamental fact of networking. > > That probably works on a small network. Try it with several thousand > servers and 200,000 users, not counting internet customers. Or try it > with an ISP, where you can't control the configuration on ANY of the > users' computers. > > I've worked in both situations. Firewalls are a godsend. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread ben
On Sunday 21 April 2002 12:05 am, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:51:51AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > That probably works on a small network. Try it with several thousand > > servers and 200,000 users, not counting internet customers. Or try it > > w

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:51:51AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > That probably works on a small network. Try it with several thousand > servers and 200,000 users, not counting internet customers. Or try it > with an ISP, where you can't control the configuration on ANY of the >

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
s and 200,000 users, not counting internet customers. Or try it with an ISP, where you can't control the configuration on ANY of the users' computers. I've worked in both situations. Firewalls are a godsend. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux supp

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:11:05AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > A DMZ is still behind the firewall. A DMZ is it's own little isolated > corner where all traffic to the Internet goes through the firewall, and > all traffic to the LAN goes through the firewall. That way, if the > server is cracked

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin will trillich quotation: > > thanks. i did similar tests at paladinCorp.com (specifically, > http://www.paladincorp.com.au/unix/spam/spamlart/ ) and they > found some instaces where my setup didn't retch at certain > questionable email syntaxes: Don't use them. The true test is if your sy

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > > So what are you suggesting, then? This was Will's mail server we're > talking about. First you say it needs to be behind the firewall or else > it's doomed to be cracked, then you say it needs to be in the DMZ. A DMZ is still behind the firewall. A DMZ is i

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-20 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:42:06PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > That's why you run those services in a DMZ. > So what are you suggesting, then? This was Will's mail server we're talking about. First you say it needs to be behind the firewall or else it's doomed to be cracked, then you say it nee

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-20 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:00:15PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > Noah (and I) didn't say a firewall was useless, just that discussing > > firewalls when the problem is a (potential) mail relay is wholly > > pointless. > > Noah did say that. You, to the best of my knowledge, didn't. Yes, I cert

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-20 Thread Jamin W . Collins
g multicast, you can safely block these. I've added rules to my firewalls to silently drop the entire multicast range for now 224.0.0.0/8. Since they are explictly dropped, they never reach my logging chain (I wouldn't suggest running a firewall without one). > is all this activity

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-20 Thread Michael D. Schleif
will trillich wrote: > [ snip ] > when i first set up ipCop (ipcop.org) i got about 18mb of > logfile in one afternoon from the default firewall logging rules > (via ipchains on potato): > > Apr 2 12:18:41 troll kernel: Packet log: input - eth1 PROTO=89 > 63.64.14.221:65535 224.0.0.5:65535 L

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-20 Thread David Smead
uthink.com/serensoft.com that you shouldn't be seeing those packets. But it looks like you're on a cable and only the ISP knows what IPs are out there on that particular cable. - start of probe -- Domain Name: DONTUTHINK.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS,

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-20 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:28:17AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > HELO dontuthink.com > 250 server Hello 12-235-84-58.client.attbi.com [12.235.84.58] > MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct > RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-20 Thread will trillich
eted the final (reject-and-log) rule of the incoming ruleset... is all this activity from a goofy setup by my isp? is it something i'm doing? surely this much probing must mean something... > If that rootkit was installed by somebody exploiting a samba which > should have been blocke

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > Noah (and I) didn't say a firewall was useless, just that discussing > firewalls when the problem is a (potential) mail relay is wholly > pointless. Noah did say that. You, to the best of my knowledge, didn't. The original poster was concerned of a number of things, i

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 09:10]: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:56AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > | begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > | > HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. > | > | "ridiculous". "pedantic". > | > | > The > | > only thing a firewall

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
HELO dontuthink.com 250 server Hello 12-235-84-58.client.attbi.com [12.235.84.58] MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator if you are relaying, I do not see how. If s

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:56AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: | > HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. | | "ridiculous". | | > The | > only thing a firewall is good for is to provide you with a false sense | > of security. | | A

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > > And what do you do when a security vulnerability arises in your firewall > implementation? The same thing you do when that happens with any other component of your network; fix it, have plans in place to recover from it, and have monitoring in place to detect

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > > HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. "ridiculous". > The > only thing a firewall is good for is to provide you with a false sense > of security. A firewall is a useful tool for securing a network. If you don't know enough abou

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:16:50PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > I will tell you that sendmail and the general issue of mail handling has > been and will continue to be a security issue. What does sendmail have to do with this? From Will's original post: >Exim version 3.12 #1 built 03-Jan-

firewall limitations (was Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?)

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:11:37PM -0700, David Smead wrote: | The first mistake is running Windows. True. | The second mistake is not putting Windows machines all on their own | subnet with a firewall between it and the `good' machines on the Linux | subnet. It makes no difference. The windows

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 03:57, will trillich wrote: > debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to > happen. any pointers welcome... > > does 'presumed innocent' operate on the mentality of the average > isp? i'm getting the impress

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 18, 2002, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:57:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to > > happen. any pointers welcome... > > > > just got a &#x

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread David Smead
The first mistake is running Windows. The second mistake is not putting Windows machines all on their own subnet with a firewall between it and the `good' machines on the Linux subnet. Aynone who can secure Windows itself with a firewall product has a ready and steady market! -- Sincerely, Dav

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:16:50PM -0700, David Smead wrote: | Noah, | | The more programs running on a computer, the less secure it is. A | firewall can run a mimimal system - see the LEAF project with deep Debian | roots. If you run a firewall running out of RAM then not only will it be | mini

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread David Smead
I didn't claim that firewalls are a panacea, or a network can be trusted. I will tell you that sendmail and the general issue of mail handling has been and will continue to be a security issue. You can avoid some of these problems by letting your ISP gather your mail which you later retrieve

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:42:06PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > That's why you run those services in a DMZ. > And what do you do when a security vulnerability arises in your firewall implementation? Or when an attacker is able to hijack a web browsing session by one of your internal users? The i

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
That's why you run those services in a DMZ. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:05:31PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > > Are you operating behind a firewall. There are only two kinds of systems > > operating

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:57:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to > happen. any pointers welcome... > > just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's > reported "dontUthi

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:57:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's > reported "dontUthink.com" as a spammer. i'm running debian > potato/exim-- You really need to find out the nature of the complai

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:05:31PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > Are you operating behind a firewall. There are only two kinds of systems > operating without firewalls - those that are hacked and those that will be > soon. HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. The only

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
a nasty situation about to > happen. any pointers welcome... > > just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's > reported "dontUthink.com" as a spammer. i'm running debian > potato/exim-- > > Exim version 3.12 #1 built 03-Jan-

my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-18 Thread will trillich
debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to happen. any pointers welcome... just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's reported "dontUthink.com" as a spammer. i'm running debian potato/exim-- Exim version

Re: ISP user and password

2002-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > ...you'll probably also find instances for your .fetchmail configuration > > and possibly a newsserver configuration. > > I suggest using a different password for newsserver authentication if > possible. So

Re: ISP user and password

2002-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > ...you'll probably also find instances for your .fetchmail configuration > and possibly a newsserver configuration. I suggest using a different password for newsserver authentication if possible. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood,

Re: ISP user and password

2002-04-10 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe that by default for a dial in account that would be in /etc/chatscripts/provider, together with the other chat tokens (phone number, modem initialization string and some more). --- Begin Message --- Hi, Does anyone know where the user name and password would be for your isp ??? I

Re: ISP user and password

2002-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Rodney Agha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know where the user name and password would be for your isp ??? > I thought it was the ppp file, ? > Does anyone know ? Be more specific. For what protocols and/or actions. For ppp dialup, modify

Re: ISP user and password

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 16:12, Rodney Agha wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know where the user name and password would be for your isp ??? > I thought it was the ppp file, ? > Does anyone know ? Usually /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets depending on how you connect. You should u

ISP user and password

2002-04-10 Thread Rodney Agha
Hi, Does anyone know where the user name and password would be for your isp ??? I thought it was the ppp file, ? Does anyone know ?

Re: OT: should i report portscans to ISP?

2002-03-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:40:10PM +0200, Juhan Kundla wrote: > So my question is: what should i do? Should i report > this to my ISP? Should i block the IP address of the scanner? (This is > probably bad idea, since we have here dynamic IP-addresses) I don't want to > overreact

Re: OT: should i report portscans to ISP?

2002-03-09 Thread Chris Jenks
computer, which has same ISP as me. As far as i can tell, my firewall has not being compromised in any way. If those scans were prelude to some kind of attack, this attack either never took place or it failed. So my question is: what should i do? Should i report this to my ISP? Should i block the IP

OT: should i report portscans to ISP?

2002-03-09 Thread Juhan Kundla
Hei! Firstly, i am a linux newbie. I have a small network of computers here, which i have to look after. This network is connected to internet via debian woody firewall. This firewall is being portscanned quite often. Those scans originated from a computer, which has same ISP as me. As far as i

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > The suits are probably the only ones who would actually pay for > someone to tell them they don't know what they're doing :-). The rest > of us come here and get your support for free ;-). I was on the end of an escallations queue that the local cable companies

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:22:28PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: ... | [1] I am starting to doubt if there's anybody but suits in the bay area, | from the people that make it to Portland I meet, my trip to Redwood City | and my experiance taking tech support calls, this seems unlikely that |

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
all: i heartly agree with noah. i too am a speakeasy customer after my former isp (verio) attempted to dump me onto earthlink.net (huh???). anyway, customer satisfaction has been nothing short of excellent. i am running two dns servers at home with the two ip's furnished by speakeasy. i

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, Here is an [EMAIL PROTECTED] customer who was moved to new ATTBI.COM > service in Northern California. New terms of service states additional > "no-Server" policy. Yuck !!. (I never signed it but sent to me when > change happened. So it is legally

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Adam Majer wrote: > Yes they do, _but_ it's not trully static and if you want trully static you > need > to play $60 for biz cable and $20 for static - that about US$50/mo. The point is it won't be changing often enough for it to not count as static, unless you live in Illin

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:41:36PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Cable setup is pretty straightforward. I used to do tech support for > @Home before I got laid off and got a better paying job as a security > guard. Other than the dying @Home network, I don't think there's a > cable network

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Here is an [EMAIL PROTECTED] customer who was moved to new ATTBI.COM service in Northern California. New terms of service states additional "no-Server" policy. Yuck !!. (I never signed it but sent to me when change happened. So it is legally not binding.) On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:41:36P

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > dsl - the local telco is verizon. if you get their residential package, > i'm pretty sure they use pppoe on adsl... At least in the Portland, Oregon area they do not use PPPoE (though even though they got the "don't use PPPoE" idea right, it doesn't s

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
em to). They're certainly not the cheapest ISP in the country, but they may very well be the best. I've been their customer for a bit more than a year now, and have not experienced a single unscheduled outtage. noah -- ___ | Web: ht

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Jason M. Harvey
it. their buisiness class dsl (sdsl) should use tcp/ip with no user-authentication such as pppoe. if you can find an isp that uses covad (www.covad.com) as a clec, that would be nice. their sdsl packages may start around $100 per month for 192k and go up (and maybe past) 1.5 mb/s. if these isp's use

debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm moving to NYC in the next couple of weeks to start a new job. Can anyone provide recommendations for ISPs that will allow me to run a few debian boxes (and one iMac) with a minimum of hassle? I'm looking to avoid ISPs that require proprietary software or funky configs just to get them to w

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP? -revisited

2002-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
I thought I'd finally traced my lockups to my ISP, but it's just happened again with a different ISP :( Now I'm looking into some BIOS settings related to the hard disk. But it may be time to go back to kernel 2.2.20. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Wi

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
der about power management myself; I do have it set in the BIOS, so I could try disabling it. I'm not sure if the time interval is always the same. Anyway, I'm beginning to think it's just another of those computer mysteries with which life abounds. Since it seems to be

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-06 Thread ben
; > > > I only have Linux at present, though I'm planning to play with > > > > > FreeBSD. Oddly enough, the problem has never occurred with my > > > > > laptop, using the same ISP and the same kernel. > > > > > > > > do you have the same

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
FreeBSD. > > > > Oddly enough, the problem has never occurred with my laptop, using the > > > > same ISP and the same kernel. > > > > > > do you have the same version of ppp on both machines? > > > > Yes: 2.4.1.uus-1 on both. > > so what are

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-05 Thread ben
as never occurred with my laptop, using the > > > same ISP and the same kernel. > > > > do you have the same version of ppp on both machines? > > Yes: 2.4.1.uus-1 on both. so what are you actually doing, what apps are running when the system locks up? you also mentioned

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jan 2002, ben wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2002 02:46 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I only have Linux at present, though I'm planning to play with FreeBSD. > > Oddly enough, the problem has never occurred with my laptop, using the > > same ISP and the same

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-04 Thread ben
On Friday 04 January 2002 02:46 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I only have Linux at present, though I'm planning to play with FreeBSD. > Oddly enough, the problem has never occurred with my laptop, using the > same ISP and the same kernel. do you have the same version of ppp on both machines?

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Jan 2002, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 January 2002 05:16 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've been posting complaints here for some time about total lockups > > using the 2.4.x kernels. They occur when, and only when, I'm on line. > > Today I tried using a diff

Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been posting complaints here for some time about total lockups using the 2.4.x kernels. They occur when, and only when, I'm on line. Today I tried using a different ISP and was online for an hour, doing a long download, without any problems. I can't see any way in which my I

Re: how to edit and upload html page to isp web host?

2002-01-01 Thread Petre Daniel
pico,mcedit,vi or joe,ncftp package or simply ftp.. At 07:28 PM 1/1/02, mikepolniak wrote: What do i need to create a simple index.html page, and upload it to my isp web hosting site. I will mostly use jpeg files from screen shots and digital camera. -- Save bandwidth and time - Get

how to edit and upload html page to isp web host?

2002-01-01 Thread mikepolniak
What do i need to create a simple index.html page, and upload it to my isp web hosting site. I will mostly use jpeg files from screen shots and digital camera. -- Save bandwidth and time - Get Mailfilter - The Anti-Spam Utility http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/index.html

Mozilla makes ISP call but shows local page

2001-12-11 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Whenever I start mozilla I get the local page: file:///usr/share/doc/mozilla/localstart.html which is subtitled: "This is a local page to avoid using the network on disconnected machines." That's fine by me. I don't want to make an internet connection unless I've requested it. However, out

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:08:25AM +1000, john wrote: > Fred Bloom wrote: > > > Cobalt is a linux ISP out of the box. > > > > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > > Many people regard Cobalt as a piece of junk aimed at wannabe ISPs. My > impression > is th

Re: Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD)

2001-11-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:59:12PM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > wrote: > > > > > Bruce Schneier identifi

Re: Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from Op enBSD)

2001-11-24 Thread Petro
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:51:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:59:12PM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > wrot

Re: Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD)

2001-11-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:51:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... I'd prefer a modularized, single-app approach to the monolithic > design of OpenOffice. Actually I understand OpenOffice is decomposing the monolithic StarOffice 5x model into single apps. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PR

Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD)

2001-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:59:12PM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: <.

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-23 Thread Petro
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

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