NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net?

2003-03-25 Thread cfm
Can anyone reach aljazeera.net or english.aljazeera.net from outside of US? Or any nameservers for it? I'm trying to determine if this is a US only issue, . cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc

NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net?

2003-03-25 Thread cfm
Can anyone reach aljazeera.net or english.aljazeera.net from outside of US? Or any nameservers for it? I'm trying to determine if this is a US only issue, . cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc

Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective

2002-10-10 Thread cfm
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:37:00AM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:07:31PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > > Well, I think you'd be in the minority of you don't care if vendors > > > officially support Debian. From a commercial perspective, > > what happens > > > if your te

Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective

2002-10-10 Thread cfm
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:37:00AM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:07:31PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > > Well, I think you'd be in the minority of you don't care if vendors > > > officially support Debian. From a commercial perspective, > > what happens > > > if your t

Re: UUNet down

2002-10-03 Thread cfm
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:30:29AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Ugh... even though we're not in the USA, these UUnet problems still affect > us, because we're getting so many calls from USA clients telling us OUR > network is dead and dying, when in fact it is their own :-/ > > Are you g

Re: UUNet down

2002-10-03 Thread cfm
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:30:29AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Ugh... even though we're not in the USA, these UUnet problems still affect > us, because we're getting so many calls from USA clients telling us OUR > network is dead and dying, when in fact it is their own :-/ > > Are you

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-17 Thread cfm
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 12:27:08PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > Dear Russel (and anyone else who is using relays.osirusoft.com), > Jared (single operator of relays.osirusoft) has a documented chip on > his > shoulder against Asia and iAdvantage (upstream, one of the largest ... > > I have communica

Re: VPN Tools!

2002-08-03 Thread cfm
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 01:29:08AM +0800, axacheng wrote: > i forgot one point!!! > > these package MUST free i dont have no money -_- > > > Hello List : > > Does anyone knows What is best package on VPN solution > > That package have perfect security , compatibility and friendly conf

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-09 Thread cfm
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 07:19:27AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > > > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:56:12PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: > > > > what has size got to do with it? > > > > > > Because the distinction between a customer and an ISP is not clear. > > > [...] > > > > that was a tautology. it

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread cfm
ses on cable; as more and more of them start running their own SMTP servers and plugging in CDROM email databases this problem will mushroom. The damage a spammer can do from dialup is nothing compared to what he can do on a 2M cable connection with a linux box and powerful MTA. The only entity th

Re: RBL - Back to basics

2002-05-02 Thread cfm
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:34:09AM +1000, Glenn Hocking wrote: > Hi again > > However from a 'email service provider' point of view (as per my > original email) I do not wish to block ANY legitimate email. The more > spam that is bounced the better BUT my requirement is purely 'If it > blocks

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-02 Thread cfm
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:24:57AM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > Speaking as an ISP that has to deal with spam complaints from our clients, > most people consider it spam if it was unrequested -- thus the definition of > Unsolicited Commercial Email. It's bad enough to have to deal with junk ads > th

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-02 Thread cfm
garbage than it will to generate that garbage. No way to win that. Anyway, the approach we are taking now is the strictest possible RBL plus an accept list and no spamfilters, precisely because it seems the lightest on resources and the most effective long term. Clients here can opt out of that (ge

Re: rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-01 Thread cfm
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:02:08AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a bit off-topic, but since I run a number of high volume incoming > mail servers, this applies to any ISP... > > >From http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html > > --- > rblsmtpd opts pr

Re: Multiple Ascend connections

2002-04-03 Thread cfm
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:13:24AM +1000, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: > you'll then have to serailize/buffer it somewhere, probably at the web server > side if there is only one or on another machine.. > > JeF > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:46:14AM -0500, Sean Porth wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > >

Re: Problems building FreeSWAN kernel package.

2002-02-06 Thread cfm
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:38:27PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > Getting a VPN set up on my gateway machine. Running woody (2.4.17). > > Installed the packages: > freeswan, kernel-patch-freeswan, kernel-package, gawk > > After reading /usr/share/doc/kerne-package-freeswan/README.

Re: Problems building FreeSWAN kernel package.

2002-02-06 Thread cfm
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:38:27PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > Getting a VPN set up on my gateway machine. Running woody (2.4.17). > > Installed the packages: > freeswan, kernel-patch-freeswan, kernel-package, gawk > > After reading /usr/share/doc/kerne-package-freeswan/README

Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread cfm
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:41:52PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > That's only an issue if the first drive dies and at the same time something > forces a system reboot. What's the chance of those two things happening at > the same time while not rendering the machine totally unusable (IE dead >

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs--talk more about rsync+ssh system

2002-01-02 Thread cfm
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0800, Ted Deppner wrote: > > The [modules] in rsyncd.conf provide a nice way to package what you want to > > back up. You can also specify what ip addresses connect to rsyncd. So in > > theory only the backup machine can connect to the rsyncd daemons; we've se

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs--talk more about rsync+ssh system

2002-01-02 Thread cfm
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0800, Ted Deppner wrote: > > The [modules] in rsyncd.conf provide a nice way to package what you want to > > back up. You can also specify what ip addresses connect to rsyncd. So in > > theory only the backup machine can connect to the rsyncd daemons; we've s

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs--talk more about rsync+ssh system

2002-01-02 Thread cfm
are pulling the data of with rsync -e ssh there is no need for a key on the server machine. Maybe I was working on it too late last night; at any rate, tcpdump will tell. Can it build an ssh tunnel without keys at both ends? YMMV. The idea is that if someone got root on the client machines,

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs--talk more about rsync+ssh system

2002-01-02 Thread cfm
ulling the data of with rsync -e ssh there is no need for a key on the server machine. Maybe I was working on it too late last night; at any rate, tcpdump will tell. Can it build an ssh tunnel without keys at both ends? YMMV. The idea is that if someone got root on the client machines, the only

Re: mini ISP

2001-11-21 Thread cfm
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:50:44AM +1100, Iain wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running a mini ISP with what I could only describe as a pretty > 'unique' setup: > > It is all running of a Debian 2.2 box. > > It has 5 Stallion 8 port serial cards providing 40 PPP dialin lines. (I had > to patch the

Re: mini ISP

2001-11-21 Thread cfm
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:50:44AM +1100, Iain wrote: > Hi, > > I have been running a mini ISP with what I could only describe as a pretty > 'unique' setup: > > It is all running of a Debian 2.2 box. > > It has 5 Stallion 8 port serial cards providing 40 PPP dialin lines. (I had > to patch th

Re: stable vs testing

2001-11-10 Thread cfm
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:30:56AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:32:29AM +1100, Jason Lim wrote: > > We run unstable on our production servers. That means we must be very > > vigilant in making sure no one else has had a problem. We download > > the updates, and install t

Re: stable vs testing

2001-11-10 Thread cfm
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:30:56AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:32:29AM +1100, Jason Lim wrote: > > We run unstable on our production servers. That means we must be very > > vigilant in making sure no one else has had a problem. We download > > the updates, and install

Re: Quata Support with MySQL

2001-11-04 Thread cfm
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:59:28AM -0800, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:10:38AM -0500, Keith Elder wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I was wondering if anyone had any type of hints as howto setup > > virtual mysql accounts with quota support. > > There's no really good way to do

Re: Quata Support with MySQL

2001-11-04 Thread cfm
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:59:28AM -0800, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:10:38AM -0500, Keith Elder wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I was wondering if anyone had any type of hints as howto setup > > virtual mysql accounts with quota support. > > There's no really good way to do

policies for securing privacy systemwide against random wiretap/nettap

2001-10-26 Thread cfm
ta like that mailing list that would keep it private?o What about customer databases? This may not be the place for this; can someone suggest other resources? Thanks, cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc

policies for securing privacy systemwide against random wiretap/nettap

2001-10-26 Thread cfm
ta like that mailing list that would keep it private?o What about customer databases? This may not be the place for this; can someone suggest other resources? Thanks, cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc

lynx, news.bbc.co.uk, DNS failures

2001-10-25 Thread cfm
ecific but I suppose it could be something in the way bind caches queries. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and/or suggest a work around? ;; ANSWER SECTION: news.bbc.co.uk. 1556IN CNAME newswww.bbc.net.uk. newswww.bbc.net.uk. 283 IN A 212.58.2

lynx, news.bbc.co.uk, DNS failures

2001-10-25 Thread cfm
ecific but I suppose it could be something in the way bind caches queries. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and/or suggest a work around? ;; ANSWER SECTION: news.bbc.co.uk. 1556IN CNAME newswww.bbc.net.uk. newswww.bbc.net.uk. 283 IN A 212.58.2

Re: Accounting software

2001-10-11 Thread cfm
appgen, www.appgen.com On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:17:49PM +0200, Craig wrote: > Hi Guys > > Does anyone know of accounting software that can run on Linux, > with Point of Sale capabilities ?> > > ..Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Accounting software

2001-10-11 Thread cfm
appgen, www.appgen.com On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:17:49PM +0200, Craig wrote: > Hi Guys > > Does anyone know of accounting software that can run on Linux, > with Point of Sale capabilities ?> > > ..Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Linux.Lion Virus

2001-09-03 Thread cfm
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:54:21PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > As usual, not given enough time to keep up on updating servers properly (two > Redhat and one NT), one of our servers has been infected by the Linux.Lion > virus. I keep my personal Debian system updated by dselect all the time, but > h

Re: help with site+database

2001-07-18 Thread cfm
ollowed a good install guide. (SUSE and arsdigita) It's not "apt-get install oracle". The A-E set in 1994 was **way** easier. cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, M

Re: help with site+database

2001-07-17 Thread cfm
ractive with complex queries and transactions, the choice seems limited. Oracle will do the trick, but the installation on linux seems so fragile: I'd not dare touch anything for fear I'd never recover. The only other choice seems to be postgres. Oh well... have they got a histor

Re: WAN Adapters...Wan in general

2001-06-07 Thread cfm
u will help yourself most by clarifying the question. Then jump up and down and ask your new provider to give you the gear. :-) cfm > A question to you all: > > Im sort of in a tight spot here. I want to connect my enterprise through > a cable line provided by a big carrier.

Re: WAN Adapters...Wan in general

2001-06-07 Thread cfm
u will help yourself most by clarifying the question. Then jump up and down and ask your new provider to give you the gear. :-) cfm > A question to you all: > > Im sort of in a tight spot here. I want to connect my enterprise through > a cable line provided by a big carrier.

Re: Accounting Software

2001-05-02 Thread cfm
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:36:35AM -0400, Robert Brown wrote: > What are other ISPs running for financial accounting software? We are running > Peach Tree 7.0 with a customer base of 3000 users. Printing invoices is now > over 30 hours. A call to Peach Tree informs us that our software is only ma

Re: Accounting Software

2001-05-02 Thread cfm
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:36:35AM -0400, Robert Brown wrote: > What are other ISPs running for financial accounting software? We are running > Peach Tree 7.0 with a customer base of 3000 users. Printing invoices is now > over 30 hours. A call to Peach Tree informs us that our software is only m

Re: get school connected to the inet

2001-04-22 Thread cfm
look up CHIPA at google. You will find various half-assed programs listed. Realistically, if the school is not willing to use this as a learning experience for the students about the big bad world, then you might be better off just unplugging the box. $.02, cfm On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11

Re: get school connected to the inet

2001-04-22 Thread cfm
look up CHIPA at google. You will find various half-assed programs listed. Realistically, if the school is not willing to use this as a learning experience for the students about the big bad world, then you might be better off just unplugging the box. $.02, cfm On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11

Re: High Availability.. (SQL server)

2000-10-07 Thread cfm
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:24:25PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: I believe this is a project between RedHat and TCX, building multi server redundancy. (So shoot me if I am wrong.) You might want to search sourceforge and mysql sites before going too far. > Hello > > Has anyone ever tried

Re: Talking to a POP server.

2000-10-04 Thread cfm
You've got one major issue there, yes. ;^) Seriously though, a number of these packages already exist. Search freshmeat or your local /var/state/apt/lists/*. On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:08:19AM -0700, Scott Thompson wrote: > Hello once again list. I am currently writing an online mail service

Re: e-commerce

2000-07-24 Thread cfm
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:08:21AM -0500, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > > > > > a good solution to implement a virtual store? > > consider minivend > > And then find a better alternative. Unless you have more free time than > sense stay *away* from mini

Re: e-commerce

2000-07-24 Thread cfm
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:08:21AM -0500, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > > > > > a good solution to implement a virtual store? > > consider minivend > > And then find a better alternative. Unless you have more free time than > sense stay *away* from min

Re: Virtual Domain Solution

2000-07-08 Thread cfm
ll conceived piece of legacy mission critical software running on their system they are embarrassed to show it to anyone, let alone support it. Just speaking from my experience. ;^) cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Commu

Re: Virtual Domain Solution

2000-07-08 Thread cfm
ll conceived piece of legacy mission critical software running on their system they are embarrassed to show it to anyone, let alone support it. Just speaking from my experience. ;^) cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Commu

Re: Virtual Domain Solution

2000-07-07 Thread cfm
ave master accounts that have secondary accounts; those may have any number of services attached. Billing, master and secondary accounts all have their own contact information; so do some of the services. Probably elementary to an accounting person but a rough lesson for us. cfm -- Chr

Re: Virtual Domain Solution

2000-07-07 Thread cfm
unts that have secondary accounts; those may have any number of services attached. Billing, master and secondary accounts all have their own contact information; so do some of the services. Probably elementary to an accounting person but a rough lesson for us. cfm -- Christoph

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread cfm
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:05:29PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:23:18PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > > > Store the mysql connection information in a PHP file in the webspace. I > > > > often create a file db

Re: secret data for php pages

2000-06-07 Thread cfm
ts up as root. The server then changes uid/gid to nobody:nogroup. Now that is with WN. Hardly stock debian setup. ;^) Nor do we let users onto the machines with that setup; it's staff only. Period. As an alternative, you might be able to set server id read only depending on how much

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread cfm
Have you looked at the swappable disks broadcasters use? > > - Original Message - > From: Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Cc: ; > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:37 PM > Subject: Transfer data between two comps without network > > > > Welcome, > > my problem is that I hav

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread cfm
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:15:40PM +0200, Phil Pennock wrote: > Typing away merrily, John Haggerty produced the immortal words: > > Is there say a test that can be implimented that would test to determine > > wheather the program you are running will work under perl and > > then pick that version o

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread cfm
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:01:04PM +0200, Phil Pennock wrote: > Typing away merrily, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced the immortal words: > > You **need** clients to complain loudly when something breaks; otherwise > > how will you know? As for the lawyers, you'll hear from them > > if you upgrade or i

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread cfm
oudly when something breaks; otherwise how will you know? As for the lawyers, you'll hear from them if you upgrade or if you fail to upgrade. ;^) We've just found it easier to maintain consistent upgrades as a matter of **policy**. cfm On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:28:27AM -0400, Joh