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August 28th, 2009
One major change I've noticed in Solaris 10 is that admintool is gone...
To read more about Solaris 10 go here
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It's donation time again
August 24th, 2009
A small amount goes to MARC mailing list archive for their superb archiving
services, I use MARC regularely.
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The IPv4 Address Report
August 22nd, 2009
I came across this webpage called the
IPv4 Address report.
It predicts when we will run out of IPv4 space. At the time of this writing
it was 694 days and I noticed over a couple of weeks that this number can
grow or shrink as the prediction passes over time.
Running out of IPv4 space is hardly the end of the world. It just means that
IPv6 will be a must have rather than a nice-to-have. This blog already is
mirrored on ipv6 space at ipv6.solarscale.de
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(you can only reach it if you have IPv6 configured).
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Random Hackepedia
August 21st, 2009
Encryption is the art of obfuscating information so that a third party cannot read its contents...
Read on,
here.
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Freak for Numbers?
August 14th, 2009
I'm a freak for numbers and I recently came across this website:
www.ipspotting.com. It rates your
IP number through a CGI. My host proteus.solarscale.de got a score of 35
which was half interesting for it, my other static IP got a score of 23 and
that wasn't so interesting, even though it had a prime number in the dotted
quad. Check it out sometime.
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Random Hackepedia
August 14th, 2009
X is the X Window System as designed by Project Athena at MIT. It is a graphical user environment that allows cursor movement over windows as displayed on the monitor...
To read more about this hackepedia entry a go here.
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Random Hackepedia
August 7th, 2009
Hubs are devices that connect other devices together over a network. They are inherently a "broadcast" device, in that all devices see all traffic that passes through the hub, even if they are neither the sender nor receiver of the traffic....
To read more about Hubs go here.
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The stolen bytes
July 30th, 2009
According to my weblogs I was getting downloads from some IP addresses on the
order of 80 GB a month. I found that hard to believe because my VPS provider
charges shows that I only use about 50 MB a day when I'm not running natally.
To show you I have gathered the bytes from the "common" apache log for the
highest downloader:
pjp@proteus:/usr/local/apache2/logs> zcat access_log.1.gz | grep Jul | \
grep 61.xxx.xxx.xx | awk '{ total += $NF } END { printf("total: %s\n", total);}'
total: 8432326849
So then I decided to do what he does, I make a HTTP 1.0 connection and download
a large mp3, then I interrupt the download, and in the logs it says I have
downloaded the entire file which is bogus:
212.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [30/Jul/2009:19:50:08 +0200] "GET /public/rfc1122nc.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 71848370
212.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [30/Jul/2009:19:51:59 +0200] "GET /public/rfc1122nc.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 71848370
212.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [30/Jul/2009:20:18:01 +0200] "GET /public/rfc1122nc.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 71848370
Everytime I interupted the download and everytime it said I downloaded 71 MB.
This adds up, and I'm thinking if I had a webhoster that charges the traffic
from the apache log files then there is a big problem as people may get
overcharged traffic wise. The best thing to do is to get traffic logged at
the router (by means of access lists perhaps) and not the apache log files.
Another thing I did was make sure that there is no transparent proxy anywhere
and so on the last download I packet dumped the session:
proteus:~ # tcpdump -v -n -r apache.out -l | wc -l
reading from file apache.out, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked)
167
167 packets were logged and at an MTU of 1500 it doesn't get near the 71MB of
the file, so the session isn't cheating me by buffering in between.
The nicest thing would be to patch this in apache.
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The stolen bytes (part 2)
July 30th, 2009
I've switched my webserver to lighttpd.
The license seemed right, the coding
style seemed fair, a lighter httpd is all we need. I checked the problem
with the chinese log fakers (I whoised the IP) and it doesn't happen. The
logs now properly tell that they are only downloading about 46K bytes instead
of 70 MB. If it were all so simple as this.
Update: more comes to light. I noticed that the downloads come at a certain
frequency and get stopped mostly at 40K or so. It's possible that the chinese
firewall is stopping my RFC's that I recorded which are in the public section
of this website. I used a testing website from shanghai to test and there
definitely is a time-out when trying to access my .mp3's. Here is the
website
and the picture I made follows (so you don't have to try it out wasting
bytes):
Update 2: I was able to get a packet dump of one host trying to download the mp3's from me and it's apparent that the great firewall of china cuts it off.
Here it is. You'll see at the
end there is 10 RST's, normally a host only does 1 RST to end a connection and
that's it. I've heard about the firewall in china doing it exactly this way
too. The clues just keep on coming in.
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