Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Cole Tuininga
Guys - unfortunately, I think you're barking up the wrong proverbial tree. I think I understand this problem, but if my answer here is incorrect, I'm sure that somebody will say so. 8) The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when opening a socket to a remote

Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:41:52AM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote: The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when opening a socket to a remote system. This is a function of the network stack within the kernel - not a system call. Hence, this is not something that

Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when opening a socket to a remote system. man bind(2) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/22/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a box with the iso files on it, mounted via the loop back device, and vsftpd running behind my router. Is your router between the FTP server and the FTP client? Is the router performing NAT and/or firewall duty? If so, that

Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

2006-03-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
I just want to mention that eventhough the OP was looking for a source code tool to help him understand the code, the Intel C++ compiler tends to do a much better job of optimizing C++ code than the current version of G++ does (although there is now a GCC optimization project going on). Last

Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

2006-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Ricker writes: The Great Circle GC library works nicely to debug memory leaks, but their platform/distribution left us. I forget the name of the tool we're using on AIX now; Purify from IBM/Rational is a top drawer tool that I've used in the past on other projects for this and some

Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

2006-03-23 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Wednesday, Mar 22nd 2006 at 14:30 -0500, quoth Michael ODonnell: = = = What was the name of the tool from Red Hat that did code = inspections? It was supposed to be the best of them all. It was = commercial for a while and then RH released it as open src. Anyone? = = =I just installed

Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 08:12 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/23/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when opening a socket to a remote system. man bind(2) Right - this is for *listening* sockets. Sending an

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread Bill Freeman
Ben Scott writes: On 3/22/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a box with the iso files on it, mounted via the loop back device, and vsftpd running behind my router. Is your router between the FTP server and the FTP client? Is the router performing NAT

Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

2006-03-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thursday 23 March 2006 8:36 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote: I *HIGHLY* recommend Valgrind for memory leak detection. It supports C++ name mangling, and works on multithreaded code. I've used a large variety of memory checking tools over the years; Valgrind is one of the very best. The

Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Cole Tuininga writes: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 08:12 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/23/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when opening a socket to a remote system. man bind(2) Right - this is for *listening*

Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

2006-03-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry Feldman writes: I agree that Valgrind is an excellent tool. However Rational's (IBM's) Purify Plus puts it to shame for a mere $10,000. I've found bugs with Valgrind that Purify never found. I've found bugs with Purify that Valgrind never found. For serious development, I'd make

Re: Recommendations for C++ sourcecode analysis tools

2006-03-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thursday 23 March 2006 9:52 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Jerry Feldman writes: I agree that Valgrind is an excellent tool. However Rational's (IBM's) Purify Plus puts it to shame for a mere $10,000. I've found bugs with Valgrind that Purify never found. I've found bugs with Purify that

Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:56:00AM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote: That said, my suspicion would be that this setting only dictates what interface(s) that postfix *listens* on. Not what interface(s) it sends mail *out* on. Nope. When one IP that my machine exists on was blocked by AOL (some moron

Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man bind(2) Right - this is for *listening* sockets. As Kevin says, it isn't limited to listening sockets. Read the man page carefully. Sending an email out requires the server to make a connection to a remote server - it doesn't use

Re: Comcast and mail header errors?

2006-03-23 Thread Bruce Dawson
Cole Tuininga wrote: Guys - unfortunately, I think you're barking up the wrong proverbial tree. I think I understand this problem, but if my answer here is incorrect, I'm sure that somebody will say so. 8) The problem is that the application has no control which interface it uses when

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread Bill Freeman
Ben Scott writes: On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both machines are on the inside side of the router, from which point of view I presume that it acts like a switch or hub. Oh. I believe you are correct, there. So much for that theory. :-/ An

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting additional data point is that if I tell the ftp client on Knoppix to use passive mode, then I can no longer do transfers. Ah-ha! I, too, suspect the cause of that problem is also causing a problem for the installer. I would

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread Bill Freeman
Ben Scott writes: On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting additional data point is that if I tell the ftp client on Knoppix to use passive mode, then I can no longer do transfers. Ah-ha! I, too, suspect the cause of that problem is also causing a

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a good try. With the subnetword temporarily isolated from the rest of the world, and the server firewall disabled, I could ftp from knoppix in passive mode, including data connections ... Woo who! ... but FC5 installer still

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread John Abreau
Ben Scott wrote: Since that obviously sucks for any number of reasons, passive mode was created. PASV has the *server* listen on an ephemeral port, which it tells the client about. The client then connects to that port for the data channel. Just a minor nit; PASV mode wasn't invented to

FTP PASV IE

2006-03-23 Thread Jason Stephenson
I always say things that are wrong and discover within 5 minutes of saying them that they are wrong. IE has an option to use passive mode in Internet Options. I saw it just now when trying to find another option. (I'm doing something for work that pretty much requires IE at the moment.) I

FTP, proxies, firewalls (was: Fedora ftp install without a name server?)

2006-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/06, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a minor nit; PASV mode wasn't invented to deal with firewalls; if I recall correctly, it was part of the ftp spec early on, and its intended purpose was for server-to-server transfers. Ah. Interesting. I stand corrected. On 3/23/06,

Re: FTP PASV IE

2006-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/23/06, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always say things that are wrong and discover within 5 minutes of saying them that they are wrong. It always happens after posting in a public forum. I think it's a law of nature or something. I just wanted to admit my mistake before

Re: FTP, proxies, firewalls (was: Fedora ftp install without a name server?)

2006-03-23 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: Perhaps, an upgrade or a switch to a different firewall software is in order. What are you using now? Currently, it is a relatively old release of IP Filter (ipf) from http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ that was hacked up by the OpenBSD folks before the licensing

Re: FTP, proxies, firewalls (was: Fedora ftp install without a name server?)

2006-03-23 Thread Bill Freeman
Jason Stephenson writes: ... It must have something to do with that machine having an AT keyboard port and I'm using an AT/PS-2 adapter to connect it to the KVM.) At keyboard and PS/2 keyboard use the same electrical and signalling protocol. An adapter is just connectors and wire,