My Netgear FVS318 router/firewall has developed a nasty habit of
rebooting every time it gets both portscaned and repeated gnutella
requests (who still runs gnutella anyway?) so I am looking to put in a
boarder router/firewall to protect it (read replace it if not for the
lack of an 8 port switch)
If you should never get a request outside the US why should you look any
further to deny it? This is not complete protection by any measure but it
makes an easy first step. I used to go one step further and block my
dynamic hosted websites (where you don't get to mess with iptables) from
being
Unfortunately, a scan like nmap or netcat can trivially use random or source
choice IP.
So a distributed denial of service (and more than a few script kiddie bots and
toolz) originate from Chinese source addresses.
The real scanner is actually behind the proxy watching it all ready for the
Isn't that what network documentation and maintenance scripts are for ;)
Actually you have a very good point but, particularly when people travel.
I would block all non US addresses but would turn the rules on and off by
country when executives travel (automated on and off dates were
I agree that you can and will get attacked from US addresses, that may or
may not be US machines. However I am still failing to see the problem with
block denying a large address range. For example if I am getting 1000 port
scans a day from various china addresses why would I not start by denying
Top posting because long email is long.
Did you ever look at Smoothwall? I'm going to implement it for one of my
clients pretty soon.
http://smoothwall.org/
Excerpts from Bryan O'Neal's message of Mon Mar 30 23:17:46 -0700 2009:
My Netgear FVS318 router/firewall has developed a nasty habit of
I thought smothwall was a stand alone isolated distribution that ran on
dedicated hardware, not something I could put on top of a standard
distribution thus allowing me to keep the box hooked up for its tv centric
features. If I had a small dedicated box I could get away with using I would
allowing me to keep the box hooked up for its tv centric features.
DON'T!!!
A firewall, is a firewall and is a firewall.
In my perpetually delusional state of paranoia, I don't allow ANYTHING not
indispensable on my firewall.
And even though, I look for ways to eradicate...
My firewalls run
You hit the nail on the head :)
Old computers are cheap and firewall distributions are plentiful.
Why expose everything in your network to save almost nothing!
I like Smoothwall myself.
--
JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
j...@twingeckos.com
480.288.8195x201
http://www.twingeckos.com
Anyone still have their Y2K kits lying around?
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Charles Jones
charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote:
On April 1st the Conficker.C virus (probably the most virulent MSWin
virus to date) is due to activate. By activate I mean that thusfar it
has been just
It's a home box, rite now I just flip the power switch on my router when I
sit down and maybe a few times while working (when being stormed).
If I have to convert the available box over to a dedicated system then I
may, but I also may just keep manually rebooting the Netgear. It is an
OpenSuse has a limited gui in YaST for SuSE firewall that is essentially
a frontend for iptables, it seemed fairly easy to use when I last played
with it but I didn't care for the ruleset it generated, it seemed to be
way too much, and made it nearly impossible to edit the rules manually
through
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-First-Linux-
Botnet-626424/?kc=EWKNLLIN03312009STR1
The main thing keeping Linux desktops out of botnets is the sophistication of
their users, but the people who built Psyb0t knew most people don't pay much
attention to router security.
--
Jason Hayes
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, mz m...@infomagic.net wrote:
I'm migrating from M$ WinXP to openSUSE 11.0. At the moment I'm looking
for a db for simple personal use.
I have a music collection db in M$ Access. There are about 1900 records
w/ six variables. The collection is mostly vinyl LPs
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, mz m...@infomagic.net wrote:
I'm migrating from M$ WinXP to openSUSE 11.0. At the moment I'm looking
for a db for simple personal use.
I have a music collection db in M$ Access. There are about 1900 records
w/ six variables. The collection is mostly vinyl LPs
Jason Hayes wrote:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-First-Linux-Botnet-626424/?kc=EWKNLLIN03312009STR1
The main thing keeping Linux desktops out of botnets is the sophistication
of
their users, but the people who built Psyb0t knew most people don't pay much
attention to router
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:29:21 -0700
Mike Schwartz mike.l.schwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, mz m...@infomagic.net wrote:
I'm migrating from M$ WinXP to openSUSE 11.0. At the moment I'm looking
for a db for simple personal use.
I have a music collection db in M$
If you install and use PhpMyAdmin you can easily import a CSV I assume you can
export from access in that format.
I searched on import CSV into mysql and found a few sites that looked
helpful. You would be doing so on the command line if you follow these
tutorials.
Search this page for CSV
For simple personal use I would recommend MySQL. You can easily export each
table out of MS Access and import into MySQL, or link the MySQL tables in
access and run an append query to transfer the information between the
access tables and the MySQL tables.
-Original Message-
From:
If you like right click solutions for importing then you can also check out
Aqua Fold Data Studios. It has a limited trial but it makes things easy as
you can connect up to your MS Access db and export the entire database
(table creation, caned queries, and data) with just a few clicks.
Recreating
mz wrote:
I'm migrating from M$ WinXP to openSUSE 11.0. At the moment I'm looking
for a db for simple personal use.
I have a music collection db in M$ Access. There are about 1900 records
w/ six variables. The collection is mostly vinyl LPs (i.e., entered by
hand) with another 2000 LPs
Oracle express is free (4G limit) and you could learn some transferable
skills playing with it.
--
JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
j...@twingeckos.com
480.288.8195x201
http://www.twingeckos.com
Rodney Dangerfield - I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want
to interrupt
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 10:34:14 Charles Jones wrote:
Jason Hayes wrote:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-First-Linux-Botnet-626424/?kc=EWKNL
LIN03312009STR1
The main thing keeping Linux desktops out of botnets is the
sophistication of their users, but the people who built Psyb0t
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:57 -0700, mz wrote:
I'm migrating from M$ WinXP to openSUSE 11.0. At the moment I'm looking
for a db for simple personal use.
I have a music collection db in M$ Access. There are about 1900 records
w/ six variables. The collection is mostly vinyl LPs (i.e., entered
I don't think any one doubts postgresqls ability to run his db effectively,
instead we doubt its ease of use. MS Access it is not ;)
-Original Message-
From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bishmer
Sekaran
Bryan O'Neal wrote:
I don't think any one doubts postgresqls ability to run his db effectively,
instead we doubt its ease of use. MS Access it is not ;)
-Original Message-
From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
I was intrigued by the OO opening MS Access dbs, so I tried it. I was
unsuccessful with OO 3.0 base and Access 2000 mdb files. :( Would have been
cool if it worked ;)
I like how you mention middleware/front end considerations; it is after all,
at the hart of a dbs usability. MS Access provides its
Perhaps I was unduly harsh on Postgresql.
And while the last time I messed with it was over a half decade past; it
gave me a headache at the time. I am told my headaches would have gone away
if I just did XYZ (which changed depending on who you talked to) like
setting more restrictive locks.
Excellent post with good clear direction and suggestions Bishmer Sekaran!
And very interesting descriptive literary first person subjective experience
from Boneal.
Postgres is a very schitzophrenic (and insecure) solution, but very good in
clearly defined roles. Since you are clearly right
Awe... Thank you Lisa, so few of the people I know would ever call me right
brained :)
Usually I am the logical hard a** of the group who insists on real evidence
and analytical though processes.
I suppose this sabbatical is doing me some good after all :)
I will decently check out the GUI
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