User: bulb

Is your webserver down? Use uptime.

On: Broadband Crackdown

I use @home, but haven't been effected yet. I know because I haven't recieved an email alert from my offsite server monitor (I also double checked by logging into a remote server via ssh and testing the server with lynx).

Check out http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/ for the free (and open source) monitoring service.

Re:using ipmasquarading and a ftp bad port error

On: IPChains and Firewalling

worked like a charm.

Re:What's the i for?

On: Oracle 8i Linux port on the scene

Context (the full text search aspect of Oracle before 8i) has been renamed and reworked as Intermedia. It is supposedly more reliable, but I haven't heard anything about more functionality. I am using the Arsdigita Community System (opensource web publishing kit which uses AOLserver and Oracle and is available here) which has a module for site wide search that uses it.

using ipmasquarading and a ftp bad port error

On: IPChains and Firewalling

I don't firewall with my RH 6.0 box, but I do use it to give internet access to some Macs on my LAN.

I have a DSL connection to static IP address, which is the RH 6.0 box, with a second NIC setup for LAN. On the LAN email clients, web browsing, telnet, and ftp to the RH 6.0 box works, but ftping to outside ftp servers results in bad port errors.

Any clues, ipchains and ipmasquarading seem to be set up to