RE: [cobalt-developers] Strange errors in mail log

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Monday 13 January 2003 15:01, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
> > Correct, it is Active Monitor... (I thought I posted this answer a few
> > days ago...?)
> >
> You did! And I for one think that more people should be searching
> the archives
> before posting.

yes that does look correct but the core issue is more this

> My Qube has recently been a target of spammers.  The problem was due to my
> ignorance.  I enabled web-caching which caused an open-relay for spammers
on
> port 3128. I disabled the port using the web interface and the problem
still

I have 2 Qubes that have been targeted for the same reason - the caching
appears to be flawed if you enable it it is open relay which I sort of
remember being discussed some months ago - sadly I forgot when I installed -
also I'm not sure if it is an open proxy if you enable the web caching or
not and how to test it.

but what concerns me is the reply from a Sun guy

<snip> from Uli

I know it isn#t the perfect solution but please use the Adaptive
Firewall and block those ports for IP addresses not beeing trusted or
not in your LAN. This works for me and it is much better than the
inbuild kernel firewall.

You get the Adaptive Firewall via BlueLinQ and it's free.

Please don't use the latest kernelupdate for the Qube. Stay with kernel
version OS 6.4

<end snip>

They have only just released a fix for it but already we're being told not
to install that oh and by the way don't use the latest kernel either which
has been out for a while - so it looks like there are more problems under
the hood.

Don't get me wrong I love the Qube and have a lot of respect for the guys
(the Cobalt ones mainly with a few Sun exceptions) but with Sun not giving
two hoots about most of them I'm surprised the ones that are left haven't
left.

Regards

Gavin
Would the last one to leave please turn out the lights, Sun doesn't want to
waste energy.