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Would the person who has named their machine samba.org...
...please knock it off.
Here are the log files back that you keep
mailing to us. We don't want them.
From: Charlie Root <root@samba.org>
To: root@samba.org
Subject: samba daily run output
Removing stale files from /var/preserve:
Cleaning out old system announcements:
Removing stale files from /var/rwho:
Backup passwd and group files:
Verifying group file syntax:
Backing up mail aliases:
Disk status:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 8950142 4815448 3418684 58% /
devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
Last dump(s) done (Dump '>' file systems):
Network interface status:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
rl0 1500 <Link#1> 00:e0:4c:d3:5b:a1 287510 0 172315 0 0
rl0 1500 192.168.46 samba 180153 - 108604 - -
rl0 1500 fe80:1::2e0:4 fe80:1::2e0:4cff: 0 - 4 - -
xl0 1500 <Link#2> 00:0a:5e:5e:b0:c5 879366 0 84475 0 0
xl0 1500 192.168.48 192.168.48.1 262205 - 20446 - -
xl0 1500 fe80:2::20a:5 fe80:2::20a:5eff: 0 - 4 - -
vr0* 1500 <Link#3> 00:14:2a:94:6a:30 0 0 0 0 0
plip0 1500 <Link#4> 0 0 0 0 0
lo0 16384 <Link#5> 7528 0 7528 0 0
lo0 16384 your-net localhost.org 7528 - 7528 - -
lo0 16384 localhost.org ::1 0 - 0 - -
lo0 16384 fe80:5::1 fe80:5::1 0 - 0 - -
Local system status:
3:01AM up 2 days, 7:05, 0 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
Mail in local queue:
/var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient
(reply: read error from dp.samba.org.)
<operator@samba.org>
k3J30ZNp012363* 88 Wed Apr 19 03:00 <operator@samba.org>
<operator@samba.org>
Total requests: 2
Mail in submit queue:
/var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
Security check:
(output mailed separately)
Checking for denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR):
-- End of daily output --
posted at: 18:00 | path: /internet | permanent link to this entry
Random audio
- George Bush Mashups
- The infamous GWB mashups. They are much like the Pauline
Hanson parodies a few years ago but based on presidential speeches.
(Warning: contains political satire and naughty words).
- Helen Keller - Electro Ohio LP
- Funky experimental electro dance. Very listenable.
- Super Mario World Soundtrack
- Some guy covers the entire soundtrack of the Super Mario World video game. Now that's just weird.
posted at: 23:10 | path: /internet | permanent link to this entry
Referrer spam
mbp discovers some referrer spam (here
and here)
which I think is pretty clever, although probably annoying for the
sites in question. I thought I would check to see how widespread the
problem was, at least with the particular script (Referrers 2.0) on the
yacht ad. Google says that there are only 132 sites that use the
script which isn't such a big number, but I can imagine someone
discovering a similar problem with some more popular software. All it
would take is a page or two of Perl and the results from google to
make a mess of a whole bunch of blogs. posted at: 11:06 | path: /internet/spam | permanent link to this entry
Google juice
The OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint is now the number 1 hit when searching for SCO on Google. posted at: 11:12 | path: /internet | permanent link to this entry
Cool BIND hack
The following named.conf snippet tells BIND to use an
internal nameserver for a private network *.test in the address block 10.0.0.0/8:
zone "test" {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders {
10.0.0.1;
};
};
zone "10.in-addr.arpa" {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders {
10.0.0.1;
};
};
I wish more programs would use the BIND configuration file format.
It's easy to read, parse and you can nest configuration parameters,
something that a lot of other configuration files can't do. posted at: 15:41 | path: /internet | permanent link to this entry
The Death of Spam Predicted
With regard to Bill Gates
predicting the end of spam someone comments:
Within a closed community it is feasible to crack the spam problem,
and that closed community could be the Microsoft mail communuity. I'd
guess Microsoft see this is a first rate opportunity to expand and
lock in users to their system. If the rest of the world community
doesn't fix the spam problem, fast, Microsoft probably will - for
their users.
That's an interesting prediction. As far as I can see the lock-in
for Outlook is the proprietary calendaring functions that is part of
Exchange. According to this
review Microsoft's spam filter still has a bit of catching up to
do and that is putting it mildly. "State-of-the-art technology
developed by Microsoft Research" indeed.
A friend is developing a SpamAssassin mail rule based on the GPG
key signing. It generates a whitelist based on the list of email
addresses obtained from the web of trust. This assumes that anyone
who runs gpg is not likely to be spamming you. They may however be
running a windows box infected with the latest virus of the week. It
struck me as an example of a closed community solving the spam
problem.
So far Microsoft have managed to increase the amount of junk email
in peoples inboxes. The samba mail server is discarding a couple of
copies of the Mydoom virus per minute. posted at: 17:39 | path: /internet/spam | permanent link to this entry
Seen on slashdot...
"Avoid the slashdot effect, don't read the articles!" posted at: 10:29 | path: /internet/sigs | permanent link to this entry
Spam du jour
It's probably too much to expect spammers to learn about word wrapping.
From: "Larry Moore."
To: tpot@samba.org
Subject: from Larry.
Hello,
This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have
not
yet
met.
...
I have been diagnosed with prostate and esophageal cancer that was
discovered
very late due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has defiled all
form
of
medicine and right now, I have only about a few months to live
according to
medical experts.
Heh. posted at: 15:12 | path: /internet/spam | permanent link to this entry
Spam me plenty (update)
I tried another mailing list (the ethereal developers list) and a
posting under a previously unused email address resulted in viruses
delivered to that address. Unlike the Samba users' list, the first
virus didn't arrive until a couple of days later. posted at: 13:04 | path: /internet/spam | permanent link to this entry
Spam me plenty (update)
Another handful of virus laden emails have arrived at my honeypot
address including this one:
Oct 15 06:32:45 dp postfix/cleanup[24928]: 915AB2C05F: discard: header
Content-type: application/x-msdownload; name=Q878311.exe from
mta08bw.bigpond.com[144.135.24.137];
from=<rosebery@XXXXXXXX.com.au> to=<asmithee@samba.org>
proto=ESMTP helo=<mta08bw.bigpond.com>
If there's blame to be handed around, surely Telstra and other ISPs
forwarding on known virus infected emails should get some. I don't
know why they think this is a good idea. posted at: 17:24 | path: /internet/spam | permanent link to this entry |