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janc
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response 150 of 248:
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Nov 20 17:49 UTC 2002 |
Grex rations ttys to limit usage. If you telnet in and we are out of
ttys, you get put in a queue. If you ssh in ... yucky things happen.
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fuzzman
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response 151 of 248:
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Nov 20 17:51 UTC 2002 |
Ah, that makes much sense. Thanks for the information.
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gull
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response 152 of 248:
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Nov 21 18:56 UTC 2002 |
Yup, if you get the 'failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty' message,
it's best to kill that ssh session and either telnet in, or try again later.
It's rare to have a long queue these days, so often trying ssh again a few
minutes later works fine.
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remmers
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response 153 of 248:
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Nov 21 23:08 UTC 2002 |
Or even just a few seconds later.
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fuzzman
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response 154 of 248:
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Nov 22 14:50 UTC 2002 |
I asked because it was consistent for about 20 minutes.
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albaugh
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response 155 of 248:
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Dec 3 16:10 UTC 2002 |
grex timing out mail connection attempts from other systems continues to be
a problem (refusing / unable for > 1 hour). In this case, I'm talking about
Ford, not some spam-factory. This is now what I consider chronic; is this
because grex now receives so much e-mail that it can't handle all foreign
systems? If so, I posit that to be due to so much spam. Does staff have any
time to investigate why mail connections are being refused this way?
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keesan
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response 156 of 248:
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Dec 3 16:23 UTC 2002 |
I only had problems with two particular senders, whose systems timed out or
something. THe rest of my mail gets through all the time.
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dang
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response 157 of 248:
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Dec 3 22:06 UTC 2002 |
Grex was breifly timing out for me, but that went away, and hasn't come
back, so I assume it was high load. I get mail from Grex all the time,
and regularly, as I'm staff, so there doesn't seem to be a general
cronic mail delivery problem on Grex. I'm not a mail guru, so I can't
help beyond that.
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russ
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response 158 of 248:
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Dec 4 01:14 UTC 2002 |
I am also in the situation of getting no e-mail for most of a day
or even close to two days, then getting a huge backlog.
Seriously, folks. If we no longer have the capacity to be the
mail drop for a big chunk of the third world, let's cut them off.
They are not part of the Grex community and are threatening our
very existence. Let them use Hotmail or Yahoo.
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gelinas
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response 159 of 248:
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Dec 4 01:36 UTC 2002 |
Don't assume that mail is all they use. I know that I see a fair number in
party.
I'm not privileged to look at the logs, so I can't attempt to do any
diagnosis of a potential problem.
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other
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response 160 of 248:
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Dec 4 02:12 UTC 2002 |
I got my first porn spam at board@cyberspace.org.
I would assume that's a big chunk of the problem.
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jmsaul
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response 161 of 248:
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Dec 4 02:22 UTC 2002 |
That you're using the board address to sign up for porn sites? Could be...
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other
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response 162 of 248:
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Dec 4 02:37 UTC 2002 |
Well, that's what they tell me, but I just can't recall...
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russ
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response 163 of 248:
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Dec 4 05:32 UTC 2002 |
Re #159: I was thinking of something more like putting new users
into a "no mail" (also no ftp, thus getting rid of donkey) group,
and giving people full privs if they become members, have an
identifiable USA presence or make a special request. Existing
users would not be affected.
Getting rid of donkey might be worth the whole effort.
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scott
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response 164 of 248:
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Dec 4 14:01 UTC 2002 |
We disable accounts which do automated stuff anyway, so it's probably not as
big a problem as it appears. The big edonkey problem was just excessive
clueless bots trying to connect, which somebody could do maliciously anyway.
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mcnally
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response 165 of 248:
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Dec 4 14:33 UTC 2002 |
re #159:
> giving people full privs if they .. have an identifiable USA presence..
I can't decide whether or not I'd like to hear your rationalization for
this proposal or not..
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mynxcat
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response 166 of 248:
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Dec 4 16:13 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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gull
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response 167 of 248:
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Dec 4 17:15 UTC 2002 |
Re #157: It's not mail *from* Grex that's the problem, it's mail *to* Grex.
The problem has eased up for me a bit, lately, though I do still
occasionally see mailing list mail arrive out of order (which indicates
a batch of it didn't go through on the first attempt.)
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cmcgee
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response 168 of 248:
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Dec 4 18:15 UTC 2002 |
yeah, I'm still getting reports about mail that bounced from my grex address.
From the AATA, so it shouldn't be spam filtered.
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jlamb
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response 169 of 248:
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Dec 5 00:12 UTC 2002 |
Hola, Why was grex down????????
was it because of the new backtalk update?
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scott
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response 170 of 248:
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Dec 5 00:15 UTC 2002 |
Grex was down because of some kind of power blip, apparently.
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russ
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response 171 of 248:
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Dec 5 02:29 UTC 2002 |
The modems were ringing open around 6 PM. Dunno if this
was a Grex problem or a modem problem.
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russ
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response 172 of 248:
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Dec 5 13:00 UTC 2002 |
Re #165: Mostly because it's likely that someone coming in
through our dialups is in the USA, and we could automagically
include IP blocks belonging to US ISPs if it became an issue.
India and Brazil are no worse off for computers than Ann Arbor
was when Grex was founded; let them follow our example.
Re #166: What part of "or makes a special request" was obscure?
The point is to reduce Grex's mail load (and potential for abuse)
by adding a hoop to jump through before being able to add to the load.
Other sites are much better suited to handling it than we are.
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keesan
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response 173 of 248:
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Dec 5 15:22 UTC 2002 |
Are you suggesting that groups of people in India, making $80/month each if
they are lucky or nothing if they are students, get together and pay for a
fast internet connection? Some of them have really slow connections right
now and Yahoo takes a lot longer to use than grex even at its worst. Ever
had a chat with someone who types a sentence then you both wait 30 sec for
it to appear?
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mcnally
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response 174 of 248:
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Dec 5 16:49 UTC 2002 |
re #172: but I'm still not clear on why American users rate special
privileges under your reasoning. What is it that makes a user from
Atlanta, GA, or Pierre, SD more desirable than one from Madras or
Yogjakarta or Rio de Janeiro?
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