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Open proxies - was RE: Spam on the increase ?
by Phill Groom 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

-----Original Message----- From: Andy Linton [SMTP:asjl(a)lionra.net.nz] >The model for advertising on the Internet was touted as 'ads on web >pages' with click through etc. It's not exactly been a raging success - Slightly related - During a moment of stupidity (I blame the shift in magnetic fields due to my being temporarily relocated some thousands of kilometers from my true home) I inadvertently removed the all important "#" from "#ProxyRequests On" on an apache box.. It took some time and someone far more cluefull than myself to relate this mistake with the strange GET's I started seeing in my http logs a few months later. I was seeing GET's for banner ads at a rate of a couple a day. Turns out my box and many other open proxies around the world were being used to proxy banner add hits to generate revenue for the scum who had the financial relationship with the banner add company. They needed to make the hits look as though they were coming from joe random customers hence the use of many open proxies. Something else to watch for. Phill. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Spam on the increase
by Michael Hallager 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

HI all, I did notice this too. (To my own personal box). Good that the headers are still in english.... :-) The funniest one, (This one in english) was the one sent to abuse(a)comsolve.net.nz, which I setup to take AUP style complaints. (None recieved yet though). Out of all the mail addresses @comsolve.net.nz, that was most appropriate. Shows spammers don't have any sense... :-) Best regards, -- Michael Hallager Managing Director Comsolve Networks (NZ) Limited E-Mail: michael(a)comsolve.net.nz Website: http://www.comsolve.net.nz Proudly providing hosting exclusively to 100% family-safe content sites. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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another NZNOG archive
by Joe Abley 05 Jan '02

05 Jan '02

http://www.anos.org.au/groups/newzealand/nznogframe.html Excellent :) - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: Sort of OT: are there any "Internet enabled" temperature sens ors/servers for Auckland?
by Denis Gordon 05 Jan '02

05 Jan '02

Weather Underground also has some (relatively) up to date NZ readings. Some of them are a bit out of the way though. http://www.wunderground.com/global/NZ.html --- Denis Gordon Network Administrator Information Systems Technical Support Dunedin City Council 50 The Octagon, PO Box 5045, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph: +64-3-474 3566 Fax: +64-3-474 3503 Mobile: 025 845 583 Email: denis(a)dcc.govt.nz WWW: http://www.CityOfDunedin.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Andy Gardner [mailto:andy(a)navigator.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2002 3:57pm To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Sort of OT: are there any "Internet enabled" temperature sensors/servers for Auckland? At 3:47 PM +1300 2/1/02, Juha Saarinen wrote: >Measuring the outside temperature, with geographic location given. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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OT - webcam locations and my weather station
by Richard Naylor 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Thank you to all those who brightened up my day with suggestions on webcam locations. (I'm sick in bed with a bad cold/flu). The suggestions brought on many coughing fits and my wife threatened to take the lappy away (wireless cards rule). Some suggestions were, + Kelburn - ah isn't there a large "national" organisation doing this stuff ? (remember at least one cam has a weather station) + Holt Cres, Ottawa - + Devonport, Auckland - A citylink weather station and cam IS coming to downtown AKL + Tasmania + Piha Beach + Wellington Stadium - we already have a camera there on a lighting tower. Must install the IP stuff........ + Outside the Mermaid Bar. - Inside would get more hits ! (Where is this bar Sid ?) And yes I KNOW Tawa is both windy and cold. I live there. Thank you for the many kind and thoughtful comments on our weather. There is no external cam at home otherwise you would all tell me to cut the grass. I am managing to get my sons to do that. I do the mower and weed eater repairs <sigh> However, Jeremy has a camera at http://www.r2.co.nz/~jeremy/webcam/ - If you have any REALLY funny locations for web cams or ones that might endear teh Internet to the rest of the population (like avoiding motorway queues, etc) please let me know off list. I think we haven't had enough fun lately rich richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Apache / PHP4
by Michael Hallager 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hi all, Anyone know of a hack/crack/wayaround to restart Apache from a PHP4 WEB script (Or combination of stuff) without running the VirtualHost as "root". More information on what I have done will be provided offlist. In exchange for this much-needed information, I am prepared to advise how to run Apache VirtualHosts purely from an SQL database.... :-) (If thats of any interest) Please message me offlist. Best regards, -- Michael Hallager Managing Director Comsolve Networks (NZ) Limited E-Mail: michael(a)comsolve.net.nz Website: http://www.comsolve.net.nz Proudly providing hosting exclusively to 100% family-safe content sites. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: XTRA's DNS, WHF is going on.....?
by Michael Hallager 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Thanks Simon, As per the email sent directly to you, this possibility has been covered. The mail is being rejected by "mail.connected.net.nz". For the lists information, I provide the following: <COPY> Reporting-MTA: dns; mta2.xtra.co.nz Arrival-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:22:12 +1300 Received-From-MTA: dns; profix002 (210.54.79.164) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <sales(a)comsolve.co.nz> Action: failed Status: 5.1.3 Remote-MTA: dns; mail.connected.net.nz (202.180.73.237) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <michael(a)comsolve.co.nz> Action: failed Status: 5.1.3 Remote-MTA: dns; mail.connected.net.nz (202.180.73.237) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) </COPY> Xtra's helpdesk is looking into the matter. They say that the problem APPEARS to be at their end. Users of other ISP's have no such issues with comsolve.co.nz. I would like to express my gratitude to the following: (For their assistance) Wally, So Bradford, Juha, Simon and members of the Xtra helpdesk for looking into this matter. (And anyone else I have missed). Best regards, Michael Hallager Unix Systems Administrator / Managing Director Comsolve Networks (NZ) Limited http://www.comsolve.net.nz On Friday 04 January 2002 22:26, you wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Michael Hallager wrote: > > Mail from Xtra users to "anything(a)comsolve.co.nz" is being bounced > > back to them along with a .dat information file. > > > > Closer inspection of this .dat file reveals that Xtra's (DNS servers?) > > thinks that mail.connected.net.nz is STILL the destination mail server > > despite me not being with Connected since 1998. > > > > Yes- I have kept my DNS zonefiles and Domainz information well > > up-to-date for the last 4 years since moving from Connected and > > running my own mailserver.... > > > > This may merit some looking into. I have contacted Xtra and found > > their (Contracted to Teletech) helpdesk helpful enough (Even though > > I have never been a client of Xtra's) but unable to assist with > > somewhat technical matters of this nature. (They are passing the > > matter on they say). > > > > How many others have been caught out like this? > > I have seen this at least once before, what it was the domain had > previously used Xtra for it's mail, later on they moved to ihug but their > config wasn't removed from all of Xtra's mailservers. So some mail from > Xtra attempted to go to the old mailboxes (which no longer existed). > > From memory Xtra cleared it up pretty quickly once they were aware of it. > postmaster(a)xtra.co.nz would be the natural person to contact. Thanks Simon, As per the email sent directly to you, this possibility has been covered. The mail is being rejected by "mail.connected.net.nz". For the lists information, I provide the following: <COPY> Reporting-MTA: dns; mta2.xtra.co.nz Arrival-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:22:12 +1300 Received-From-MTA: dns; profix002 (210.54.79.164) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <sales(a)comsolve.co.nz> Action: failed Status: 5.1.3 Remote-MTA: dns; mail.connected.net.nz (202.180.73.237) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <michael(a)comsolve.co.nz> Action: failed Status: 5.1.3 Remote-MTA: dns; mail.connected.net.nz (202.180.73.237) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) </COPY> Xtra's helpdesk is looking into the matter. They say that the problem APPEARS to be at their end. Users of other ISP's have no such issues with comsolve.co.nz. I would like to express my gratitude to the following: (For their assistance) Wally, So Bradford, Juha, Simon and members of the Xtra helpdesk for looking into this matter. (And anyone else I have missed). Best regards, Michael Hallager Unix Systems Administrator / Managing Director Comsolve Networks (NZ) Limited http://www.comsolve.net.nz On Friday 04 January 2002 22:26, you wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Michael Hallager wrote: > > Mail from Xtra users to "anything(a)comsolve.co.nz" is being bounced > > back to them along with a .dat information file. > > > > Closer inspection of this .dat file reveals that Xtra's (DNS servers?) > > thinks that mail.connected.net.nz is STILL the destination mail server > > despite me not being with Connected since 1998. > > > > Yes- I have kept my DNS zonefiles and Domainz information well > > up-to-date for the last 4 years since moving from Connected and > > running my own mailserver.... > > > > This may merit some looking into. I have contacted Xtra and found > > their (Contracted to Teletech) helpdesk helpful enough (Even though > > I have never been a client of Xtra's) but unable to assist with > > somewhat technical matters of this nature. (They are passing the > > matter on they say). > > > > How many others have been caught out like this? > > I have seen this at least once before, what it was the domain had > previously used Xtra for it's mail, later on they moved to ihug but their > config wasn't removed from all of Xtra's mailservers. So some mail from > Xtra attempted to go to the old mailboxes (which no longer existed). > > From memory Xtra cleared it up pretty quickly once they were aware of it. > postmaster(a)xtra.co.nz would be the natural person to contact. ------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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XTRA's DNS, WHF is going on.....?
by Michael Hallager 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hi all, Mail from Xtra users to "anything(a)comsolve.co.nz" is being bounced back to them along with a .dat information file. Closer inspection of this .dat file reveals that Xtra's (DNS servers?) thinks that mail.connected.net.nz is STILL the destination mail server despite me not being with Connected since 1998. Yes- I have kept my DNS zonefiles and Domainz information well up-to-date for the last 4 years since moving from Connected and running my own mailserver.... This may merit some looking into. I have contacted Xtra and found their (Contracted to Teletech) helpdesk helpful enough (Even though I have never been a client of Xtra's) but unable to assist with somewhat technical matters of this nature. (They are passing the matter on they say). How many others have been caught out like this? Best regards, Michael Hallager Unix Systems Administrator / Managing Director Comsolve Networks (NZ) Limited http://www.comsolve.net.nz PS) Luckily all my users have their own domain names or use @comsolve.NET.nz email addresses! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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News about Alan Brown
by Juha Saarinen 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Well, say what you like, but he's tenacious. http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1321254 -- "it should be noted that the "STATEMENT TO ALL" which I posted in June 2001 was written by Telecom's lawyers and posted under duress - while the judge was made aware that the statement contained falsehoods, I was ordered to post it anyway, or be arrested and jailed until such time as I was willing to post it." http://makeashorterlink.com/?I5621254 -- :I'd advocate blocking the NZ courts servers too(**) and see how long that opinion lasts in the face of widespread demonstrations of reality. (**)All NZ courts traffic originates from 203.167.239.224 - 203.167.239.231 for those so inclined, with a domain of courts.govt.nz" http://makeashorterlink.com/?G5921454 -- "I instructed my lawyer to begin perjery proceedings against the xtra managers concerned in August 2001, however he refuses tobring the action as it would put him in both career and physical danger due to retaliatory action from Telecom Corporation of New Zealand." -- Juha Take off every sig! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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ICONZ-networks prefix list update (formerly known as Asia Online)
by David Fox 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hello and Happy New Year to all peering partners. With all the "developments" in the latter months of last year, Asia Online is now reverting to and trading as ICONZ. Can all those who peer with Asia Online at APE and WIX please update your inbound prefix-list as we will be merging in new networks in the very near future. Thanks and Regards David Fox Network Engineer ICONZ ! ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks description Internet Co. NZ Ltd, contact: networks(a)iconz.net ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 5 permit 138.235.0.0/16 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 10 permit 192.173.16.0/21 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 15 permit 202.6.84.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 20 permit 202.12.70.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 25 permit 202.14.100.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 30 permit 202.21.130.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 35 permit 202.36.32.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 40 permit 202.36.76.0/23 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 45 permit 202.36.157.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 50 permit 202.37.73.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 55 permit 202.37.85.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 60 permit 202.37.140.0/22 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 65 permit 202.37.144.0/21 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 70 permit 202.37.163.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 75 permit 202.37.197.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 80 permit 202.37.200.0/22 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 85 permit 202.37.224.0/21 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 90 permit 202.37.232.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 95 permit 202.49.144.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 100 permit 202.50.139.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 105 permit 202.50.246.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 110 permit 202.74.192.0/20 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 115 permit 203.9.179.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 120 permit 203.9.180.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 125 permit 210.48.0.0/17 le 18 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 130 permit 210.54.0.0/22 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 135 permit 210.54.136.0/22 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 140 permit 210.54.140.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 145 permit 210.54.160.0/19 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 150 permit 210.55.24.0/22 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 155 permit 210.55.253.0/24 ip prefix-list ICONZ-networks seq 160 permit 210.185.16.0/20 le 21 ! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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