Re: debian.org removed from root nameservers

1998-08-14 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this morning the domain name 'debian.org' was removed from the > root nameservers. A large number (reportedly 48,000!) domains were placed "on hold" and removed from the roots. Some are fairly high-profile like bellatlant

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Proprietary" -- what in the heck could possibly be proprietary about > > Debian? We need to clear this confusing mess up NOW!!! > > As I meant it, "is not really meant to be used outside of Debian or at least > dp

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

1997-03-02 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian C. White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The message they had said there would be both new binaries _and_ proxies > made available. Yes, I asked if proxy source would be available and was told that it hadn't been decided yet. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

1997-02-28 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know exactly what kind of protocol this RSA thing uses? There > is a pretty good chance it's simply tcp with no address transfer, in which > case plug-gw from the tis-fwtk will do the trick quite nicely. You o

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-11 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark W. Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISDN is 64. T1 is a monster, and if you can't get ISDN, Its extremely > unlikely that you could get one. Actually T1 is a much more available and mature (and reliable) transport than ISDN. But, not cheap at 1.536Mbps.

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Michael Shields
> Couldn't an ISDN handle it? It's only a 1gig. Yes, for a private mirror. But normally you are better off using dpkg-ftp unless you have a large number of machines all tracking the unstable tree. (If you have a large number of machines all tracking the stable tree, a CD is probably the best ch

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-10 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror? $ du -s * | grep -v local 0 Debian-1.2 0 Debian-1.2-fixed 0 Debian-1.2-updates 0 Debian-1.2.1 2 README 8 README.mirrors 1

Re: using mirror with delete_excl

1997-01-09 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Luetjens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to mirror the debian archive with the mirror command. I like > to keep the local tree although in the debian hirarchie, so I included > the line delete_excl=(/mnt/debian/local) to the config file. But the > files in

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-09 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have now reached a count of 56 for the number of Debian > boxes under my control and keeping them in sync (with rdist and lots > of hacking) is beginning to get out of hand. I've been doing multiple-box management

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-09 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was once want to mirror the debian as well but I was told that > I need to have a very high speed connection to the ISP. Currently > I can have upto 28.8 via modem from my house. I'd like to know > how do I go abo

Re: mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-29 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Labovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here's a perl script i wrote that uses the 'ping' program to find the > 'distance' to a mirror, sorting the sites from closest to farthest. Unfortunately raw ping times are not very well correlated to bandwidth. A better

Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install

1996-12-13 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Find the floppy disk that came with your 3com card and run it (I'm afraid > you'll have to boot a DOS floppy to do that). There's also a place where > you can get the 3com configuration utility over the net, someone please te

Re: Tweaking cron for use on laptops

1996-12-13 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few things that could be modified to facilitate spinning > down the disk. Syslogd is compulsive about writing information to the > disk right away just in case the system crashes. It could be given an > option to