The Comms Room

Jacob

00:58

Open VPN setup time

WesleyDavid

01:52

packs

02:04

Might I ask what the meaning of this dancing banana is, @WesleyDavid?

Jacob

02:15

@packs Its clearly a cheer leader...

:P

WesleyDavid

02:27

@packs IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!

3

Jacob

If anyone is in here still, mind running NSLookup on bugs.pulsesoftworks.com ?

WesleyDavid

dig bugs.pulsesoftworks.com

; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P3-RedHat-9.7.2-5.P3.fc14 <<>> bugs.pulsesoftworks.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61661
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bugs.pulsesoftworks.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
bugs.pulsesoftworks.com. 38400 IN A 96.248.216.59

;; Query time: 518 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.168.6#53(192.168.168.6)
;; WHEN: Fri Mar 18 19:32:06 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 57

What types of records did you want? All or just A?

Jacob

@WesleyDavid hmmm So I wonder why I get a can not connect

@WesleyDavid just A its a subdomain

NVM I just forgot to remove the port 80 Vhost for my blog

Holocryptic

►

IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!!!

packs

That's what she said.

Jacob

02:38

@Holocryptic :|

Holocryptic

@packs I only wish

Jacob

03:00

What is the SMTP smarthost in Server 2K3? and were is it located in add/remove programs?

WesleyDavid

It's under IIS

windowsitpro.com/article/smtp/…

Jacob

@WesleyDavid Thanks, I looked under app server but not IIS and I was like what?!?

WesleyDavid

I know, it's weird. I dont understand it.

Jacob

@WesleyDavid BRB have to go put the disc in tray

hobodave

07:28

my sleep schedule is all jacked up

ITHedgeHog

09:14

Another day another visit to the office

SmallClanger

10:57

Same here. What are you in for? :)

Mark

11:37

Anybody know how to debug a kern.log entry -- I am getting a "bad: scheduling from the idle thread; Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-29-generic #58-Ubuntu; Call Trace: ..." about every 2-3 microseconds...

ITHedgeHog

12:39

@SmallClanger Racking a firewall

gravyface

17:35

oi

where's my posse at?

pauska

@Mark: Tried booting an older kernel?

Warner

Been spending my vacation updating my resume, haha.

Jacob

19:04

Hello,if anyone is in here...

Iszi

@Jacob hi

Jacob

@Iszi I thought you were a zombie?

Iszi

@Jacob Oh... uhhh... right... eerrr....

Brains

Jacob

@Iszi RMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM -------------------RRRRRRRRFFFF ?

rm -rf

Iszi

19:19

@Jacob rm -rf is so yesterday

Now there's this

5

Q: Followed a terrible guide and ran "yum remove pcre*" on my CentOS 5.5. Now it appears the server is down.

What can I do? Even "yum" is not available. Omg...

Jacob

@Iszi so whats today?

packs

19:30

I'm half tempted to write something up using that as an example of when you should let common sense guide your judgments.

Jacob

19:45

@packs Do it

packs

19:56

A lot of my students had problems with that. They would just assume the final results were true because, well, the maths said so. Training them to go back and think about the implications of their answer was harder than I would have thought.

Iszi

20:08

@packs You teach too?

packs

@Iszi I spent about 5.5 years TAing and tutoring for the math dept during my undergrad years.

Iszi

@packs Ah, cool.

packs

Well, a minimum wage job that kept me inside and working normal hours? It wasn't bad :)

Jacob

20:40

Anyone still in here?

Iain

Good ${time_of_day}

packs

@Iain Good ${TIME_OF_DAY}

Iain

how's your weekend shaping up ?

Jacob

Anyone know how to get IIS SMTP to log its contact with a smarthost, I can't figure out why mail isn't goinh

Iain

@jacob there is a whole website out there dedicated to just that type of question

Robert Moir

20:44

@packs I can upset our maths department by asking their students if 0.9... = 1.0

packs

And what would that site be, @Iain?

Robert Moir

great way to never be asked to cover any of their classes

Jacob

@Iain Is there, I haven't heard of it?

packs

@RobertMoir Yeahh....we would have chats like that in the tutoring lab when times were slow.

Iain

@packs hmm

Robert Moir

20:45

hehe

Ben Pilbrow

@Jacob our IIS server at works logs stuff to the event viewer. There's also a log file somewhere (try something like C:/inetpub/logs/mail). Failing that, yeah - follow normal procedure and post on the main site :-)

packs

I actually got a lot out of TAing those classes, though. They were remedial maths, equivalent to high school algebra 1 and 2.

Iain

does anyone here use any SE apps/add ons ?

packs

If a kid scored below average on their math entrance exam they got placed in those. Most of them were there simply because math education is rather poor in this country.

Jacob

@BenPilbrow No dice, I think I got my smarthost PW wrong

Ben Pilbrow

20:51

PW = password?

Jacob

@BenPilbrow Yeah

Ben Pilbrow

Are there any SMTP logs in C:/inetpub?

Jacob

@BenPilbrow Yeah, I checked the logs, it only has the mail I sent it, nothing about it forwarding to verizons SMTP server

Ben Pilbrow

It is allowed out on the firewall... right? I got most annoyed once at our web dev after he spent a morning trying to diagnose a SMTP problem, I then spend a further hour or so trying to diagnose with him before I finally tried it in telnet. I thought when he came to me it was because it had stopped sending email - not that it was never allowed to and he couldn't figure out why. I could have smashed something heavy over his head that day

Are you doing anonymous relay, or are you authenticating with Verizon?

Have you tried it in telnet?

Jacob

@BenPilbrow auth, I found out that the pass was wrong, my parents changed the pass to the business again. lets see if it works now

Ben Pilbrow

20:58

D'oh

Jacob

@BenPilbrow Well, there are no logs for contacting VZ

Ben Pilbrow

Meh, maybe he has some weirdo logging turned on

I don't really get involved with IIS - setting up OWA is about my limit lol

Jacob

@BenPilbrow I do this alot, when I used exchange I had to fiddle for awhile for it to work

Ben Pilbrow

I love Microsoft and all, but the only web server I am responsible for runs on a proper web server called Apache :-)

Jacob

@BenPilbrow Well, I know IIS is getting my mail, I just can't find a log of what it does with it and the connection to the smarthost

Ben Pilbrow

21:11

Oh right, then I'm afraid I don't know

Get-MessageTrackingLog FTW :-)

Jacob

This is all thats in the logs #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2011-03-19 21:02:48
#Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
21:02:48 192.168.1.4 MAIL - 503
21:02:52 192.168.1.4 HELO - 250

21:04:28 192.168.1.4 HELO - 250
21:04:37 192.168.1.4 MAIL - 250
21:04:48 192.168.1.4 RCPT - 250
21:04:54 192.168.1.4 DATA - 250

21:05:06 192.168.1.4 QUIT - 240

nothing about talking to the smart host

Question Time!

Ben Pilbrow

That 503 jumps straight out at me

Lemme look what that means

Jacob

Hold the phone

20:48:59 206.46.232.12 - - 0
20:48:59 206.46.232.12 EHLO - 0
20:48:59 206.46.232.12 - - 0
20:48:59 206.46.232.12 AUTH - 0
20:48:59 206.46.232.12 - - 0
20:48:59 206.46.232.12 - - 0

Ben Pilbrow

503 Bad sequence of commands WTF is that supposed to mean :/

Does it go out with telnet?

Jacob

@BenPilbrow nope

Ben Pilbrow

21:15

Does telnet give you a more sensible error? (usually does)

Jacob

@BenPilbrow No, it just gives me queued for sending

Ben Pilbrow

That means it went

Is it in your junk mail?

Jacob

@BenPilbrow Yes, IIS gets it but it seems to drop off the grid after that

Ben Pilbrow

Oh OK, I think I get you now, kinda, sort of, maybe-ish

Then yeah, I really am out of my depth - question ahoy

Jacob

@BenPilbrow Hmm It does work, IIS was just keep trying to use the same pass for awhile

Ben Pilbrow

21:26

Oh ha

Please refer to my earlier comment about a proper web server :-)

Jacob

@BenPilbrow I use Linux and Windows :P

@BenPilbrow Now to get PHP to use it :)

Ben Pilbrow

IIS or mail()?

Jacob

@BenPilbrow the mail module to send it to IIS

Ben Pilbrow

That's the easy bit

Is IIS doing the auth with Verizon or your app?

Jacob

@BenPilbrow but it seems not to want to do it. IIS is :)

Ben Pilbrow

21:41

Then it should be super easy

Jacob

and it works again woooooooo

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