Re: [techtalk] sco unix...

2001-06-07 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- Quoth Walt: > I'm the new, proud owner of an unusual little beast: a sco unix box. > Unfortunately, I have no information about the previous logins. (I > bought this at a bankruptcy sale for $100). My question is what is > the sco unix equiv of 'linux single' so I can get into this thing

Re: [techtalk] Firewall part2 (Question)

2001-06-04 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- Quoth James: > How can I check if the portfw stuff was compiled into the kernel I am > running? /proc/net/ip_fwchains should exist on your system if you've got ipchains compiled into your kernel. To check for portfw, run "ls /proc/sys/net/ipv4" -- you should get a listing for files

Re: [techtalk] arrgs! routing issues - who's fault?

2001-02-22 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- > I need help with this... I recently was assigned a static IP by my > cable modem ISP. However, shortly thereafter I was no longer able to > ping a very few internet addresses that are on their network. i.e. > other IPs on the 24.137.x.x network. [snip] I don't even know wha > info is ne

Re: [techtalk] Tightening Security

2001-02-21 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- I accidentally killed the original message, but someone had made the point that /etc/services just dictates what port a given service is listening on, and that disabling that port binding hasn't a thing to do with whether the service is running at the time. That's inetd. Absolutely

Re: [techtalk] Tightening Security

2001-02-19 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- > Today the server was reported to have made a SYN attack against some > network at a college. A few days ago a man emailed me complaining > that the server was probing port 53 on his computer. The box has 1 > static IP and isn't a gateway, so no other computers are permitted to > us

RE: [techtalk] Networking Courses

2001-02-19 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- > I am interested to do CCNA. Okay, for that my recommendation would be to first learn TCP/IP. Router stuff makes a lot more sense if you understand how the underlying protocols work. If you've already got that under your belt, look at the Sybex-published Todd Lammle-authored CCNA

Re: [techtalk] Tightening Security

2001-02-19 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- > Recently i've gotten a few complaints about probes/scans from one of > my computers (a Cobalt Linux server.) I've looked at my logs and i > can see no one was logged into it at the time that the scans were > reported. Does that mean someone is spoofing me? Possibly . . . but t

Re: [techtalk] Networking Courses

2001-02-19 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- --- "Umashankar, Bala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interesred to learn Networking. Can any one suggest from where > can I get a good training? Any one who is already trained and working > in this field or is learning the networking course , please give your > suggestions. We