Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-20 Thread Daniel Mons
Frode Egeland wrote: >> Wow .. there is *no* reason at all to install bind? > > If it's installed as a caching dns server, that might be a benefit? BIND is not limited just to people hosting DNS services. It's lightweight, and works perfectly fine as a read-only caching DNS server that resolves

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-20 Thread Karl Bowden
On Jan 20, 2008 11:59 PM, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I agree. No reason to install BIND unless you're hosting names. > > One *great* reason to install BIND: Caching. Very handy for small networks, > and absolutely critical if you want to run a performant mail server. :-) > > - J

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I agree. No reason to install BIND unless you're hosting names. One *great* reason to install BIND: Caching. Very handy for small networks, and absolutely critical if you want to run a performant mail server. :-) - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbo

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-20 Thread snoopy
On Jan 19, 8:00 pm, "Frode Egeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just set my /etc/resolv.conf to point at the openDNS servers - seems fast.. > There's a free alternative to OpenDNS. I use this "ad free" DNS resolver server: http://www.ifirefly.com I hope this helps. Anyway, I agree about BI

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-20 Thread snoopy
On Jan 19, 9:43 pm, Shane Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've tried adding thoseDNSservers in NetworkManager but it does not > seem to work. It still redirects to a BigPond search page. > > Using OpenDNS addresses works, but I still have to deal with the openDNS > search for single words. >

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Karl Bowden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 20, 2008 4:26 PM, James Purser wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:23 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:54:54 +1100 > > Scott Sinclair wrote: > > > > > All it does is change the default DNS Servers.. This surely is much

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread James Purser
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:23 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:54:54 +1100 > Scott Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All it does is change the default DNS Servers.. This surely is much easier > > to do with NetworkManager, then to go to the extents of installing bind ..

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Peter Garrett
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:54:54 +1100 Scott Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All it does is change the default DNS Servers.. This surely is much easier > to do with NetworkManager, then to go to the extents of installing bind .. Unless you stop your router's dhcp from overwriting (actually *rep

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Shane Handley
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 11:54 +1100, Scott Sinclair wrote: > On Sun 20 Jan, 2008 at 07:57:48 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote: > > Shane Handley wrote: > > > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that > > > logo. Or is this something I will be forced to deal with as a BigPond >

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Frode Egeland
On Jan 20, 2008 11:54 AM, Scott Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun 20 Jan, 2008 at 07:57:48 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote: > > Shane Handley wrote: > > > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that > > > logo. Or is this something I will be forced to deal with as a Bi

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Scott Sinclair
On Sun 20 Jan, 2008 at 07:57:48 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote: > Shane Handley wrote: > > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that > > logo. Or is this something I will be forced to deal with as a BigPond > > user? > > 1) Install BIND on your system (sudo apt-get install bi

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Peter Garrett
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:57:48 +1000 Daniel Mons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shane Handley wrote: [snip] > > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that > > logo. Or is this something I will be forced to deal with as a BigPond > > user? > > 1) Install BIND on your system

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Matthew Rossi
OpenDNS is great, but it is a pain in the ass to set up on ubuntu... If you have a proper wireless router, or a Windows/Mac Machine, then it's worth it On Jan 20, 2008 8:57 AM, Daniel Mons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shane Handley wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation Stuart. > > > > Predictabl

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Mons
Shane Handley wrote: > Thanks for the explanation Stuart. > > Predictably their opt-out instructions do not include Linux: > > http://websearch.bigpond.com/bpdnshelp.do > > I changed my DNS settings, but to no avail. > > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that > l

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Peter Garrett
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:08:33 +1100 Shane Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that > logo. Or is this something I will be forced to deal with as a BigPond > user? This depends on whether they have multiple addresses for their site,

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Shane Handley
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:46 +1100, Joel Shea wrote: > On 19/01/2008, Shane Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have those evil F**ks been using this new gamearena repository to plant > > their filthy malware into ubuntu machines? Is anyone else experiencing > > this? > > > > I'd suggest ch

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Scott Sinclair
On Sat 19 Jan, 2008 at 23:38:45 +1100, Shane Handley wrote: > For example, when i enter 'evil' into the address bar and hit enter, I > am redirected to: > > http://www6.websearch2.bigpond.com/search?qo=evil&rn=gep_LPmUlQciExp > > When i enter 2 words, google seems to show up. > When you type in

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Cefiar
On Saturday 19 January 2008 23:38:45 Shane Handley wrote: > For example, when i enter 'evil' into the address bar and hit enter, I > am redirected to: > > http://www6.websearch2.bigpond.com/search?qo=evil&rn=gep_LPmUlQciExp > > When i enter 2 words, google seems to show up. > > Have those evil F**k

Re: Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Joel Shea
On 19/01/2008, Shane Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > > Have those evil F**ks been using this new gamearena repository to plant > their filthy malware into ubuntu machines? Is anyone else experiencing > this? > I'd suggest checking the md5 sums of your packages, before jumping to any con

Telstra Infiltration?

2008-01-19 Thread Shane Handley
Greetings list, This evening (Sat Night) after an update, which was followed by an epiphany crash (unusual) and some HAL errors, I rebooted my system and restarted epiphany. When I typed a search term into the address bar, I got a bigpond search page, instead of the familiar google page. For exam