[SWLUG] Solution!

[Bryn Reeves]

On 14:21 Mon 01 Mar     , Rhys Sage wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 22:05, Rhys Sage wrote:
> > Is that some sort of free firewall software for
> > windows? (Outpost)
> 
> Allegedly open-source firewall software too!
> 

Are you sure? Although they ramble on the website about 'open development
processes' building Linux and the internet, their license agreement hints at
a more 'traditional' licensing viewpoint.

Section 4 for e.g. explicitly forbids modification, reverse engineering and
derivative works. This is clearly incompatible with what most of this
list's readers will understand as 'Open Source'. 

It seems like they have a plugin-developer's license which transfers
authour's rights to Agnitum by default. Very open.

> 
> Well, the freezes restarted but less frequently.
> Checking the error log, it transpires that Microsoft
> have put something called DCOM into the system and the
> DCOM fails to initialise on an irregular basis.

Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) has been a part of Windows for a
good few years now. I seem to remember '95 (original release) required a
separate install, but it's been part of the base OS since the 2nd version
of 95. All my company's products rely on it in one way or another, so 
I'd guess it may be a red herring in this instance; perhaps it depends on 
something else which is broken on your system?

Also worth noting, is that this is one of the areas exploited by recent
worms. IIRC, one of the possible side effects of an attemted exploit was
problems starting DCOM.  Are you up to date on patches?

> > >From what I gather all the problem was caused by
> > windows firewall
> > software? If you have a linux gateway why are you
> > bothering with
> > software firewalls on your 'desktop' machines? 
> > IP masq will protect you from 99% of stuff out there
> > trying to make
> > malicious connections as your internal machines are
> > not publicly
> > routable. You can set a port range for each of your
> > desktop machines to
> > use for things like IRC DCC etc etc.

Agreed.

> I'm still in the process of setting up my gateway. I
> have all the bits. I'm trying now to work out how to
> make my server perform its wake on lan activities.
> 

WoL for a server? Rather you than me...

Cheers,

B.


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