Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-03-01 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:32 -0700, Stephen wrote: This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now... More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on my server than locally. Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet.

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Shubert
? -Original Message- From: Brian Cluffbr...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-03-01 Thread Stephen
@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server.  If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Shubert
...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Shubert
Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Steven A. DuChene
: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Brian Cluff
To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Eric Shubert
for the plug web server? -Original Message- From: Brian Cluffbr...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:34 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when you use yum to install it). You then need to have: nameserver 127.0.0.1 first in your

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Eric Shubert
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:34 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when you use yum to install it). You then need to have: nameserver 127.0.0.1

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Eric Shubert
...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Pretty much all DNS servers forward requests upstream. The critical configuration is what is upstream. If you want true results, the safest is to set the root nameserver anycasts as the upstream, but that's not nice, as it adds unwarranted load to the root servers, which are a limited global

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:34 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: For those on cox, might I suggest using opendns resolvers? 208.67.222.220 208.67.222.222 You'll need to do the PEERDNS = no thing to keep your settings from getting wiped out. Thanks Craig. :)

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Eric Shubert
Joseph Sinclair wrote: Pretty much all DNS servers forward requests upstream. The critical configuration is what is upstream. If you want true results, the safest is to set the root nameserver anycasts as the upstream, but that's not nice, as it adds unwarranted load to the root servers,

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Eric Shubert wrote: Could you elaborate about the redirect-failure-to-ads trick? I don't know what you mean by that. Also, do you happen to know if Qwest is also doing this? Thanks again. Most ISP and commercial DNS providers, when a domain name isn't found, do not return the mandated

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Brian Cluff
On 02/28/2010 02:27 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: Most ISP and commercial DNS providers, when a domain name isn't found, do not return the mandated a NXDOMAIN response. Instead they return the IP address of a server that just dumps a page full of ads based on the (presumably mistyped) domain

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Brian Cluff
Your browser should be giving you an address not found message. If bing is factoring into it, then your dns is being hijacked, or you have some sort of plugin that is redirecting your results. Attached is what I get when I try putting in something with a bad address. Brian Cluff On

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Steven A. DuChene
- PLUG website dead? Your browser should be giving you an address not found message. If bing is factoring into it, then your dns is being hijacked, or you have some sort of plugin that is redirecting your results. Attached is what I get when I try putting in something with a bad address. Brian

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-28 Thread Brian Cluff
On 02/28/2010 09:26 PM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: Yes, but you will notice they call that an Enhanced Error Results Page so that must be OK! :-) A... hadn't noticed that wording... everything is OK now... everyone, false alarm! False alarm everyone... This is an enhanced error page. I

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-27 Thread Steven A. DuChene
I have been trying to get to the web site this morning to find more information about the install fest but the PLUG website seems to be DOA. -Original Message- From: Dazed_75 Sent: Feb 25, 2010 11:49 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Installfest this Saturday We will be

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-27 Thread Dazed_75
Are you using IE6? Seems like a lot of web sites are seeming DOA to IE6 lately. I've gone to the plug website several times per day the last three days and from different computers with no problems including just now using the link in your email from the part which quoted my previous reply. On

Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

2010-02-27 Thread Brian Cluff
It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff --- PLUG-discuss