User:Zaimoni - Revision history

Zaimoni at 13:15, 5 July 2007

2007-07-05T13:15:14Z

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	Mathematician/programmer. On CE edition, want DOS 1.4 as well.		Mathematician/programmer. On CE edition, want DOS 1.4 as well. Started on XCOM1, also pay some attention to Apocalypse.

	~~In case you're wondering why I'm not that visible on XCOMUfo:~~ DNS ~~doesn't work from my local ISP, I have to use a long-distance call~~ to reach an ISP that'll get there. At least, until I actually purchase broadband (which won't be ~~from the local ISP). It's one of four domains I want to routinely visit, that are affected this way; they're all EU-hosted.~~		DNS problems appear to be solved by http://www.opendns.org/ :)

	~~:Wow. I've never even heard of an ISP that doesn't offer DNS. Severely restrictive firewall? Something like [~~http://www.opendns.~~com/faq/ opendns] won't work?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 11:20, 23 March 2007 (PDT)~~

	:: Worse. I installed a binary build of BIND to check things out in detail. (Turns out W2K doesn't like running a localhost DNS server.) OpenDNS looks interesting, but the detailed diagnosis indicates it would have to fully resolve things rather than just return the authoritative DNS server.

	:: The authoritative DNS server does not respond to direct queries from BIND tools from the local ISP, but does from the other one. There's no way to locally detect whether the problem is a firewall, or the authoritative DNS server being configured to blackhole the local ISP.

	:: The local ISP has been abused for UCE before (it has shown on Real-Time-Blackhole lists before); the procedural error of using DNS blackholing to control UCE is common enough to warrant mention in the BIND setup instructions.

	~~:: --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 12:10, 25 March 2007 (CDT)~~

	:::Well, I'm really out of my league here, but can you run DNS via proxy? Maybe NAT will work (Internet Connection Sharing)? (If this busts your machine worse, I take no responsibility! :-)--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 12:36, 25 March 2007 (PDT)

	:::: Regrettably, I don't think surfing XCOMUFO is a "work use" of time (although I do have some XCOM-like vaporware in the early design stages). Otherwise, using Lynx from an SSH connection to the dedicated (web)server I lease would be an option. --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 9:50, 27 March 2007 (CDT)

	:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.
	:I just now noticed the DNS server I added wasn't responding but I could still get the site, but anyways there's a list of DNS servers here [http://myway.faq.frontiernet.net/faq_answer.asp?q=143] through frontiernet. Though, I'm not sure if that will help if you're not in the US. <small>''feel free to delete this if you wish''</~~small>--[[User:Pi Masta\|Pi Masta]] 11:23, 23 March 2007 (PDT)~~

	~~:: I am in the U.S. However, I'm having problems quickly verifying (unlike OpenDNS) that my ethics would permit using these DNS servers.~~

	~~:: --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 12~~:~~10, 25 March 2007 (CDT~~)

Zaimoni at 14:48, 27 March 2007

2007-03-27T14:48:28Z

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	:::Well, I'm really out of my league here, but can you run DNS via proxy? Maybe NAT will work (Internet Connection Sharing)? (If this busts your machine worse, I take no responsibility! :-)--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 12:36, 25 March 2007 (PDT)		:::Well, I'm really out of my league here, but can you run DNS via proxy? Maybe NAT will work (Internet Connection Sharing)? (If this busts your machine worse, I take no responsibility! :-)--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 12:36, 25 March 2007 (PDT)

			:::: Regrettably, I don't think surfing XCOMUFO is a "work use" of time (although I do have some XCOM-like vaporware in the early design stages). Otherwise, using Lynx from an SSH connection to the dedicated (web)server I lease would be an option. --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 9:50, 27 March 2007 (CDT)

	:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.		:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.

Ethereal Cereal: more stabs

2007-03-25T19:36:36Z

more stabs

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	:: --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 12:10, 25 March 2007 (CDT)		:: --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 12:10, 25 March 2007 (CDT)

			:::Well, I'm really out of my league here, but can you run DNS via proxy? Maybe NAT will work (Internet Connection Sharing)? (If this busts your machine worse, I take no responsibility! :-)--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 12:36, 25 March 2007 (PDT)

	:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.		:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.

Zaimoni at 17:08, 25 March 2007

2007-03-25T17:08:57Z

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	:Wow. I've never even heard of an ISP that doesn't offer DNS. Severely restrictive firewall? Something like [http://www.opendns.com/faq/ opendns] won't work?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 11:20, 23 March 2007 (PDT)		:Wow. I've never even heard of an ISP that doesn't offer DNS. Severely restrictive firewall? Something like [http://www.opendns.com/faq/ opendns] won't work?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 11:20, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

			:: Worse. I installed a binary build of BIND to check things out in detail. (Turns out W2K doesn't like running a localhost DNS server.) OpenDNS looks interesting, but the detailed diagnosis indicates it would have to fully resolve things rather than just return the authoritative DNS server.

			:: The authoritative DNS server does not respond to direct queries from BIND tools from the local ISP, but does from the other one. There's no way to locally detect whether the problem is a firewall, or the authoritative DNS server being configured to blackhole the local ISP.

			:: The local ISP has been abused for UCE before (it has shown on Real-Time-Blackhole lists before); the procedural error of using DNS blackholing to control UCE is common enough to warrant mention in the BIND setup instructions.

			:: --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 12:10, 25 March 2007 (CDT)

	:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.		:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.
	:I just now noticed the DNS server I added wasn't responding but I could still get the site, but anyways there's a list of DNS servers here [http://myway.faq.frontiernet.net/faq_answer.asp?q=143] through frontiernet. Though, I'm not sure if that will help if you're not in the US. <small>''feel free to delete this if you wish''</small>--[[User:Pi Masta\|Pi Masta]] 11:23, 23 March 2007 (PDT)		:I just now noticed the DNS server I added wasn't responding but I could still get the site, but anyways there's a list of DNS servers here [http://myway.faq.frontiernet.net/faq_answer.asp?q=143] through frontiernet. Though, I'm not sure if that will help if you're not in the US. <small>''feel free to delete this if you wish''</small>--[[User:Pi Masta\|Pi Masta]] 11:23, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

			:: I am in the U.S. However, I'm having problems quickly verifying (unlike OpenDNS) that my ethics would permit using these DNS servers.

			:: --[[User:Zaimoni\|Zaimoni]] 12:10, 25 March 2007 (CDT)

Pi Masta: DNS solution maybe? (feel free to delete)

2007-03-23T18:23:36Z

DNS solution maybe? (feel free to delete)

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	:Wow. I've never even heard of an ISP that doesn't offer DNS. Severely restrictive firewall? Something like [http://www.opendns.com/faq/ opendns] won't work?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 11:20, 23 March 2007 (PDT)		:Wow. I've never even heard of an ISP that doesn't offer DNS. Severely restrictive firewall? Something like [http://www.opendns.com/faq/ opendns] won't work?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 11:20, 23 March 2007 (PDT)


			:Zaimoni, I actually have the same problem here too. I had to manually add a DNS server of 66.133.150.12. Don't know if you can reach it or not. Probably something I should talk to my ISP, because I was getting it for a while and then it stopped. I'm not sure how XComUFO's site is set-up, but http-ing to the same IP just gives an error, it has to have the name in the request.
			:I just now noticed the DNS server I added wasn't responding but I could still get the site, but anyways there's a list of DNS servers here [http://myway.faq.frontiernet.net/faq_answer.asp?q=143] through frontiernet. Though, I'm not sure if that will help if you're not in the US. <small>''feel free to delete this if you wish''</small>--[[User:Pi Masta\|Pi Masta]] 11:23, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

Ethereal Cereal at 18:20, 23 March 2007

2007-03-23T18:20:50Z

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	In case you're wondering why I'm not that visible on XCOMUfo: DNS doesn't work from my local ISP, I have to use a long-distance call to reach an ISP that'll get there. At least, until I actually purchase broadband (which won't be from the local ISP). It's one of four domains I want to routinely visit, that are affected this way; they're all EU-hosted.		In case you're wondering why I'm not that visible on XCOMUfo: DNS doesn't work from my local ISP, I have to use a long-distance call to reach an ISP that'll get there. At least, until I actually purchase broadband (which won't be from the local ISP). It's one of four domains I want to routinely visit, that are affected this way; they're all EU-hosted.

			:Wow. I've never even heard of an ISP that doesn't offer DNS. Severely restrictive firewall? Something like [http://www.opendns.com/faq/ opendns] won't work?--[[User:Ethereal Cereal\|Ethereal Cereal]] 11:20, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

Zaimoni at 17:53, 23 March 2007

2007-03-23T17:53:30Z

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	Mathematician/programmer. On CE edition, want DOS 1.4 as well.		Mathematician/programmer. On CE edition, want DOS 1.4 as well.

			In case you're wondering why I'm not that visible on XCOMUfo: DNS doesn't work from my local ISP, I have to use a long-distance call to reach an ISP that'll get there. At least, until I actually purchase broadband (which won't be from the local ISP). It's one of four domains I want to routinely visit, that are affected this way; they're all EU-hosted.

Zaimoni at 23:05, 19 September 2006

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	Mathematician/programmer, ~~planning on returning to X-COM "shortly" (~~want ~~CE version first)~~.		Mathematician/programmer. On CE edition, want DOS 1.4 as well.

Zaimoni at 19:14, 19 July 2006

2006-07-19T19:14:57Z

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Zaimoni at 14:40, 3 April 2006

2006-04-03T14:40:22Z

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Mathematician/programmer, planning on returning to X-COM "shortly" (want CE version first). Last actively played in 2000.