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A helping hand from a close group (fwd)
by Andrew Savory 26 Apr '99

26 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Just got this... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:05:51 +0100 From: Peter Bassill <peter.bassill(a)internal.dircon.net> To: "'info(a)anglian.lug.org.uk'" <info(a)anglian.lug.org.uk> Subject: A helping hand from a close group Hi Fellow Linuxers Welcome to the land of collective thought, help and co-operation. (I come in peace ;) ) An introduction from me; Peter Bassill, Cambridge Linux User Group Web Master. Looking forward to coming to your first meeting, meeting you all and finding out what you all do. Check out our web site, you might like it. www.cam-lug.org. Its still in its childhood but its getting bigger every day. If you need support with anything then please ask. We have an extensive library of distributions, data, libraries etc, all presses to cd or available from our FTP site. Drop me a mail and let me know if you need anything for Sunday. All the best! Peter Bassill Internet Systems Administrator Direct Connection *********************************************** To err is Human To rm -r * from / is luser [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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ADSL update
by Raphael Mankin 23 Apr '99

23 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Further to my note of the otehr day. If I use my 'spare' host IP that BT gave me, the oepration of the net is distinctly flaky. However, I find that I can use my Demon IP (158.152.9.237) over the ADSL network. It gets masqueraded in the normal way, but appears to be perfectly reliable. My main m/c now has three IPs. One for demon, one for ADSL and one for the internal network. I have also set up masquerading from the rest of my local net, but I have not checked my filter rules all that thoroughly yet. Also, my Win 3.1 machine (they do still exist) does not seem to fetch web pages ;-( ---------------------------------- 2 + 2 = 5 (for large values of 2) Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Using ADSL
by Raphael Mankin 23 Apr '99

23 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk BT's ADSL --------- What do you get? --------------- 1. A permanent internet connection. 2Mb/s download, 256Kb/s upload. 2. Static, masqueraded IP. The addresses used are in the 192.168.*.* range. 3. ADSL shares your phone line with voice traffic. You can use voice and data at the same time. 4. Two wall boxes, each about 10" square and about 1 1/2" deep. One is the analogue/data splitter, te other is a 'modem' that provides a utp connection to your network. BT also provide a PCI ethernet card (ne2000 clone, RealTek RTL8029 chip) and a cable. 5. Lots of BT 'constent servers' that no-one in his right mind would want to look at. 6. Access to the whole internet. BT provide web proxies that you can use. What do you not get? ------------------- 1. Mail services. You must register with some ISP for that. 2. Usenet. How do you get it? ----------------- 1. You have to live in the right area. 2. You *must* be running W95/W98. If not, BT won't even talk to you. 3. Connect your web browser to www.btinteractive.com/Registration/. For this site you will need Flash Graphics. BT *say* that you have to be running IE to use their site. I was totally unable to get it to work with IE, but Netscape worked fine. This web site is one of the worst designed and most annoying that I have seen in a long time. 4. Go through the rather long-winded registration process that will include, inter alia, downloading a program (W95/W98) that will examine your machine. You then mail the output of this program back to BT. 5. In due course BT will come and install the equipment in your premises. 6. Use the BT supplied floppies to configure your W95/W98. Donwload about 30Mb of other software and install it. You can now get at the BT content services. Apart from access to the BT servers you can ignore all their instructions. For Linux configuration, see below. Network Config -------------- You get a 2-bit (4 address) network allocated to you. BT tell you about two of the addresses, but not the other two. The address is of the form 192.168.x.y with a 30-bit netmask. 192.168.x.y+1 is the BT 'modem' 192.168.x.y+2 is the address BT tell you to use for your machine 192.168.x.y+3 is the broadcast address. 192.168.x.y is a spare host address and can be used if you have two machines on your network. BT's name servers are on 192.168.0.* and 192.168.1.*, so that rather rules out using the 192.168.*.* private address range on your home network. You just don't know who else might be using your addresses and causing conflicts. However you can still use 10.*.*.*. Routing ------- In /etc/networks create entries for your local network and for the BT network. loopback 127.0.0.0 localnet 10.0.0.0 BTnet 192.168.x.y In /etc/hosts create entries for the BT hosts, e.g. 192.168.0.18 dns1.BTInteractive.net alderney.BTInteractive.net 192.168.1.5 dns2.BTInteractive.net 12.168.x.y+1 gate.BTInteractive I assume that you have just one ethernet card in your machine. If you have two then it becomes easier to isolate your private network from the public one. At a suitable place in your rc scripts add: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 broadcast 10.255.255.255 netmask 10.0.0.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.x.y+2 broadcast 192.168.x.y+3 netmask 192.168.x.y /sbin/route add -net localnet netmask 10.0.0.0 eth0 /sbin/route add -net BTnet netmask 192.168.x.y eth0:0 /sbin/route add default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw gate.BTInteractive eth0:0 With two ethernet cards replace eth0:0 by eth1, or vice versa. In /etc/resolve.conf put: nameserver 192.168.0.18 nameserver 192.168.1.5 Security -------- You are now directly connect to the internet, so security is a major issue. Make sure all user accounts have *good* passwords. Use shadow passwords. Run pwck and grpck regularly. Disable system accounts such as bin, sync, daemon etc. by putting an 'x' in the password field of /etc/shadow. In /etc/inetd.conf comment out the entries for chargen, finger, netstat, systat, bootps and tftp. Put sensible values in /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow. A good place to start is to put ALL:ALL in hosts.deny and then to enable just those services you want, e.g. smtp, in hosts.allow. When a connection is denied run a script to log the event; for instance, in hosts.deny put the line: ALL:ALL:spawn ( /usr/bin/logger -p auth.debug "%a %d %c %h %p %s")& Implement packet filtering to discard any packets that look suspicious, e.g. those trying to use your machine as a gateway. Also drop any packets to the local net that try to go out through the BT gateway; any packets from the gateway that purport to come from the local network. If you are running a private netowrk you may want to nominate one machine as a masquerading gateway so that you can control access more easily. Update your Samba config to allow connections only to/from the local network. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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RE:
by Peter Onion 21 Apr '99

21 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Sadly I am busy on the 2nd :-( Peter Onion. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Peter Onion <Peter.Onion(a)btinternet.com> Date: 20-Apr-99 Time: 07:57:39 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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So, where now?
by Mark J Ray 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hiya, Since starting the mailing list about 10 days ago, we've got a meeting organised for 2nd May, the domain name, some web pages, listings in some of the LUG indices, started dialogue with neighbouring LUGs, publicised ourselves a bit with a press release and doubled (when I last looked) our subscribers. But we've only just begun. So I'm writing yet another "TO-DO" list, as far as I see it. Feel free to dispute or add to this list, but I don't think anyone can deny that if we get the first few done, then we'll gain people and have no problem with the later ones. So, here it is: * Announce the meeting to uk.comp.os.linux and u.l.e-a (Andrew?) Include details of how to join this list. Feel free to copy the posting to any other local groups at your Service Provider. * Any members posting there (eg Me!) add the ALUG web address to their signature block that they use to post to news (yeah, I know they're crowded already). I think ALUG members are becoming more visible on u.c.o.l (although I could probably incite a flamewar on any given topic :P). * Anyone keeping some Linux web pages stick an ALUG link-back logo on them and add them to the ALUG links on the main web site (Andrew, can you add a few more categories? Damn, I'm asking you to do a lot!) * Discuss who's going to bring what to the meeting. Andrew, could you keep a (basic) web page about the meeting, with links to Laurie's site and details of who's bringing what? * Produce a poster that we can all post around our local areas. (I know some kind souls have offered to do this.) * In a week or two, start trying to work out a venue and date for another meeting. * Keep up the good work! Publicise, invite people, etc. Food for thought? -- MJR Please use the address in the Reply-To line at the top, if set. http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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What's currently happening?
by Martyn B. Drake 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Anything new or interesting happening at the moment within the group? How are preparations for the meeting going, and how many people have confirmed that they will be coming so far? M. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] So, where now?
by Raphael Mankin 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

Thank.s I'll look forward to seeing you there, but not till probably about 3pm. High tide is about mid-day and I shall be sailing until then. On 20-Apr-99 Mark J Ray wrote: >On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Raphael Mankin wrote: >> Would you care to remind me just where and what time this meeting is? I must >> have missed it in the flood of words ;-) > >Sunday May 2nd, Melton Grange Hotel (www.meltongrange.co.uk), >Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2pm. I think. > >-- >Mark. >Stats Postgrad mailto:M.J.Ray@UEA.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ >UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ >"People will pay BIG BUCKS for the luxury of ignorance."rickf(a)transpect.net ---------------------------------- 2 + 2 = 5 (for large values of 2) Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG-DIGEST] Tue Apr 20 00:00:00 1999
by Andrew Savory 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hmm... is the main alug list still working? Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Savory(a)uea.ac.uk - 01603 593473 - ITCS, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Press released...
by Andrew Savory 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hi all, Just to say that the press release went out today, to the newshounds listed below. If you have the FAX number of any other local media that aren't listed, please do email it to me, and I'll send the release to them, too. Papers: East Anglian Daily Times Eastern Daily Press Evening News Norwich Advertiser (!) Radio: BBC Radio Norfolk BBC Radio Suffolk Radio Broadland TV: BBC East Anglia TV Other: Press Association Regional Contact I'll tidy up the begging letter tomorrow, so names and addresses of prominent Anglian businesses that will want to throw us money would be helpful! Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Consultant | Email: a.savory at uea.ac.uk IT and Computing Services | URL: http://www.uea.ac.uk/ University of East Anglia | All views are my own - Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK | who else would want them? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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LUIGUI
by James Green 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk As just seen on Slashdot: http://www.luigui.org/ I particularly like: http://www.luigui.org/resources/linux.html Which might come in handy I feel on a certain other site under construction ;) -- James Green http://www.cyberstorm.demon.co.uk [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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